Hi everyone, seeing if one of you could help me. I've searched the forums but most say it's a drive fault, but I don't think that's the case here.
TL;DR:
A disk read error occured. Press crtl, alt, delete to restart." when trying to boot right after BIOS
DETAILS:
Trying to migrate XP to an SSD without doing clean install because there are programs on there that I don't have the installation/key for anymore.
I've purchased a Samsung 840 EVO for my Lenovo T500 laptop and used the Samsung Data Migration tool via USB that came with the SSD to clone my drive. After successful clone process and swapping in the SSD in the main SATA drive bay, I received an error stating ""A disk read error occured. Press crtl, alt, delete to restart." when trying to boot right after BIOS.
I thought it might be a bootloader problem so I used a bootable USB drive (also used a CD but the USB was faster) to go through Windows XP repair NOT RECOVERY CONSOLE (had to switch the SATA to Compatibility mode from AHCI to get the OS to show up in the repair tool)
It completes successfully but after rebooting, the Disk Read Error still shows up. I can see the drive in BIOS and also the OS installed when in the Repair CD. If plugged in via USB to another computer all the files show up fine. What else could it be??
Please let me know if you need additional information and thanks in advance for your help!!
BTW I've used samsung data migration successfully on 2 win8 machines with no issues and 1 win7 machine (had to fix the bootloader on that one using the bootable USB method which worked)
UPDATE 1: tried installing a clean version just to see if it would even boot up and it booted up partially (asked for a missing driver to be installed from a:\ on the windows install/setup screen after installation and reboot) so its not a hardware/mobo problem...
then tried re-cloning the drive but still back to square one
Also ran CHKDSK from another computer on the SSD
TL;DR:
A disk read error occured. Press crtl, alt, delete to restart." when trying to boot right after BIOS
DETAILS:
Trying to migrate XP to an SSD without doing clean install because there are programs on there that I don't have the installation/key for anymore.
I've purchased a Samsung 840 EVO for my Lenovo T500 laptop and used the Samsung Data Migration tool via USB that came with the SSD to clone my drive. After successful clone process and swapping in the SSD in the main SATA drive bay, I received an error stating ""A disk read error occured. Press crtl, alt, delete to restart." when trying to boot right after BIOS.
I thought it might be a bootloader problem so I used a bootable USB drive (also used a CD but the USB was faster) to go through Windows XP repair NOT RECOVERY CONSOLE (had to switch the SATA to Compatibility mode from AHCI to get the OS to show up in the repair tool)
It completes successfully but after rebooting, the Disk Read Error still shows up. I can see the drive in BIOS and also the OS installed when in the Repair CD. If plugged in via USB to another computer all the files show up fine. What else could it be??
Please let me know if you need additional information and thanks in advance for your help!!
BTW I've used samsung data migration successfully on 2 win8 machines with no issues and 1 win7 machine (had to fix the bootloader on that one using the bootable USB method which worked)
UPDATE 1: tried installing a clean version just to see if it would even boot up and it booted up partially (asked for a missing driver to be installed from a:\ on the windows install/setup screen after installation and reboot) so its not a hardware/mobo problem...
then tried re-cloning the drive but still back to square one
Also ran CHKDSK from another computer on the SSD