I am trying to replace an HDD with a SSD on an old Samsung Series 5 Ultra. I have tried cloning the drive multiple ways:
- Tried with Macrium - drive wouldn't boot and got stuck in a loop restarting after the Samsung screen.
- Tried with DriveImage XML - same issue
- Tried with Clonezilla - this was more successful and booted the first few times, but after about 24 hours of the machine being switched off, when booting I get a "disk read error" requiring a restart, and the machine then takes 20 minutes to boot. This issue repeats itself every 24 hours or so
- Tried reinstalling Windows 10 from USB as per the microsoft website guidance - this appeared to install ok but would not restart at the end of the process (or rather, wouldn't turn off - just went to a black screen with the power light still on). I manually turned the machine off, but it would not boot from the new install.
There do not appear to be any issues with the new drive when checking diskmanagement - and I have cleaned it several times just in case. I can still use it as an external mass storage device. I also know the hardward is compatible (the drive is a Kioxia Exceria 500gb) because last week I put one into an identical laptop, but on that occasion did a clean install of Chrome OS Flex and the system works perfectly.
Is there a common problem that might explain all 4 issues? I cannot believe I am having 4 separate issues here.
BootRec /FixMBR && BootRec /FixBoot && BootRec /RebuildBCD