Bad SSD or other issue?

[JimKiler]

My bro in law called because his old AMD Athlon II i built him a decade ago is stuck in a reboot cycle. Win10 says it is doing repairs and reboots but never gets any further. It gives the error code 0xc000000f so it might be the BCD needs to be repaired or rebuilt. He has a Samsung EVO 850 SSD that i pulled out and put in my PC and the Samsung app as well as HD Sentinel both show SMART on the SSD is fine and give it a excellent health. Despite this I went to copy their SSD to my HDD and went to bed. when i woke up it had not finish and got hung up on something but there was no promt so I do not believe it is a windows issue.

Do you think this SSD is bad despite the SMART readings showing no issues? This CPU, motherboard, RAM, and PSU are all old but this does not seem like an issue for those devices or am I wrong? Looking for some guidance. I will retry copying tonight just the user files then fixing the BCD and see if that works. I read online it could be a windows update broke the BCD.

thoughts?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Honestly, it could be the SSD failing, but I'm much more willing to believe that the issue is related to a Windows Update patch. There WERE some issues with AMD rigs and the Windows' Spectre/Meltdown patches, but I thought that I had read that most of those people having issues were with older Athlon X2 (not Athlon II X2) rigs.

 

[Ketchup]

I would put the latest build of 10 on a flash drive and run an in-place re-install. See how far it gets. And a smart results are far from 100% proof that a drive is in good shape.

 

[JimKiler]

Honestly, it could be the SSD failing, but I'm much more willing to believe that the issue is related to a Windows Update patch. There WERE some issues with AMD rigs and the Windows' Spectre/Meltdown patches, but I thought that I had read that most of those people having issues were with older Athlon X2 (not Athlon II X2) rigs.

I would put the latest build of 10 on a flash drive and run an in-place re-install. See how far it gets. And a smart results are far from 100% proof that a drive is in good shape.

I attempted to repair the BCD and bootmgr using bootrec.exe and rebuildbcd worked but i got access denied for fixboot. i should have continued researching that error but as part of that i was playing with disk part and tried to reset the active drive and ending up breaking it so the bootMGR could not be found on reboot. So i did what really needed to be done and did a clean install of Win10 via USB which seemed slower than I expected compared to a CD install. I have copied over files and setup base apps and so far so good. I think it was the Windows update that broke it. I see win10 has the backup my files so i set that for my in laws so they don't have to worry about that anymore. Win 10 did update after my clean install and is current with no issues.

thanks for the assistance and i have HD sentinel on their PC to keep an eye on the SSD.