In message , GlowingBlueMist
writes:
On 10/28/2019 4:04 PM, Birdie wrote:
Lenovo T500 Win XP Pro.
Installed Samsung SSD and used for a year.* Had fast boot and no
problems.
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Put in original HDD and used it for a week.* No problems.
Bought a new SSD Samsung 860 Pro 256G.
Used Samsung app to clone new SSD.

From failed one, or from working HD?

This SSD fails immediately at boot.
Just says used Ctrl Alt Del to reboot.
Booted from my Macrium Rescue CD that I created from this laptop.
Booted ok.
Tried to use the Boot Fix in the Macrium Rescue CD.
Then tried to boot the new SSD again and it immediately failed.
Just says used Ctrl Alt Del to reboot.
Reinstalled original HDD and it booted just fine and I am now on the
laptop with this HDD.
Suggestions please to fix or whatever please ?

Firstly, image the working system ASAP (-:. [To an external drive.]

If you mean you cloned your broken SSD over to the new one then I would
expect the new one to also fail to boot as the Windows OS you cloned
might itself be defective. Microsoft has sent out a couple of
defective updates lately which can cause computers to no longer boot
properly.

Birdie said XP, so unlikely. Though always possible (I don't know what
XP updates happen if you connect a really old XP system to the update
server and ask what's available).

With the quality of Microsoft updates going into the toilet I would
strongly suggest people invest in making system backups or clones of
the working system to protect you from problems like this.

You might want to do a search to see how to do a reload of windows
while still keeping your existing data files intact. One way is to use
a bootable install DVD or USB and use that to get things started. Read
about it first as if you get it even slightly wrong the entire SSD
could get reformatted.

Even more reason (for a laptop, or small-factor desktop - anything that
can only have one drive) to have a D: (data) partition. (Yes, whole
drive formatting can still happen, but less likely.) You should of
course still back them up from time to time.

30-50G ought to be more than enough for XP-plus-all-installed-software.
(50G ought to be enough for 7 too, though 100 if you have a big drive
won't hurt. FWIW, my C - I'm on W7HP32 - is 38.9 GB used, after a few
years using 7 and installing software.)
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