NoonName wrote:
Posted in Win 7 because there is more activity there/here and most of
you in the Win 7 group have or once had Win XP so are very knowledgeable
regarding Win XP.
Win XP group gets little attention.

Read my original post.

Defragger for HDD ! Answered: Piriform.

Would defrag help for SSD ? Answered: minimally and possible too
much wear.

You all must be non native Martian speakers.

So, SSD degree of success depends more on the PC chip set !
I have several Win XP Pro laptops that have Samsung SSDs installed.
Samsung Magician tests and sets them up.
It also identifies that capabilities of the SDD depending on the
laptop's chip set.
The same SSD will run much faster with "better" chip sets.
These laptops are the same manufacturer, Fujitsu.
No way of telling without just trying.
In any case, all laptops with the model Samsung SSD run much better,
faster and are reliable. (Plug for Samsung SSD)
If interested, get the Samsung with the lifetime warranty, by paying a
little more. One package includes a cable to do the HDD to SSD transfer.

I am not in any way affiliated with Samsung, just a very happy Samsung
SSD owner (installed in three laptops).

Did you align the partition on it ?

You might get some idea, by using PTEDIT32 and looking
at the numbers involved. If a lot of the numbers on the
right are divisible by 63, then you're probably not aligned
optimally for WinXP.

A way to align for free, was to use Macrium Reflect Free
during cloning, which has an align choice box during the clone.

(The seventh frame in this filmstrip, shows the alignment dialog)

https://postimg.cc/image/soq5qlgrx/

Aligning is even useful on 512e drives being used on WinXP.
Lucky for me, the last hard drive I got for WinXP was
a 512n drive. If you need a hard drive today for WinXP,
I recommend a 2TB drive from the WD Gold series, as they're
the last 512n I know of.

Paul