Robls501

Will check it out. Thanks, Steve.

Updated the BIOS. No UEFI. Will check out your suggestions when I get a chance. Thanks. Rob

My laptop came out in 2011, and yours came out in 2012. Pretty sure on your 3rd point that the BIOS in this laptop will not allow me to...

Motherboard/BIOS does not support those changes. Stuck with MBR/Legacy boot mode.

It is MBR - Legacy BIOS. It just restarted over and over with different error messages. I captured a few with my phone, but at this...

Installed the new Samsung SSD, removed the older Samsung SSD and original Dell HDD. Used Rufus 4.6 bootable USB and tried clean install...

Will be doing a clean install of Windows 11 using Rufus 4.6 on to a brand new Samsung SSD. Thanks.

Thanks, Steve. Will do. Waiting on the new drive.

Going to check out all the drivers. edit: All drivers are up to date.

See my post above yours #47. Going to keep everything on the old drive.

Just going to swap out the old Samsung SSD(which has the OS, plus all my apps and files) for the new Samsung SSD, and clean install...

Got this error when installing "0x1900101 - 0x40017. Sounds like I have some driver issues from the research I did on it. Will go...

Did not try. Will stick with the official Microsoft installs. Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I ordered a new Samsung 870 EVO SSD from Amazon. Will be here tomorrow. Will swap out my older Samsung 850 EVO SSD...

Tried clean install of Windows 11 using the Rufus 4.6 USB solution. Failed at the same spot on the third restart after installing. Stuck...