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Solved SSD crash after Windows 10 update on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen

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Hi all,

I have a laptop Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.90 GHz, 8 GB RAM). It was bought with Windows 10 OS installed on SSD 512 GB (model of the disk is SSDPEKKF512G7L). Since the 1st running, the laptop was constantly heating and fan made much noise. Windows updates were switched on constantly, I didn't change anything in Windows settings. One day, over 1 year, there was Windows update again. The update was installed automatically when turning off the laptop. Next day, I turned on the laptop, locked my profile on Windows, and went to make a cup of tea. Over 5 minutes I returned to the workplace and saw BSOD with registry error. This happened in February 2019. BSOD said that the computer will be rebooted automatically. And the computer rebooted constantly, in infinite loop. I tried to run system recovery, tried to turn off the computer while holding down the power button, repeated this shutdown 3 times to enter the Windows recovery environment - it didn't work. I couldn’t get into safe mode too. At that time, I had no opportunity to buy new SSD, and thus I bought external hard drive, installed Windows 10 on that hard drive and did all the following procedures from the hard drive. I tried to use diskpart utility to clear disk attributes - an error occures. EaseUS Partition Master also didn't help (I have run it to delete partitions). chkdsk utility couldn't test the disk. There is no possibility to write data to the disk, to delete data and to format the disk. The disk is protected from writing as the utilities say. The only possibility is to copy data from the SSD to another storage device. All data were intact. I copied all data from the SSD to the external hard drive. Since February 2019, I have been using the laptop with the external hard drive. It is very inconvenient - 1) Windows system works very slowly (it takes about 5 minutes to boot completely); 2) there is a risk to hurt USB cable, and then the system will be crashed; 3) when going somewhere, I need to take the external HDD, apart from the laptop itself. Finally, I decided to buy new SSD. But I have doubt about choosing SSD. The model SSDPEKKF512G7L is absent at market now, as I see from searching results on the Internet (https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...eries-512gb-m-2-80mm-pcie-3-0-x4-3d1-tlc.html).
I also found the site where different tests were run for SSD: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/289714/INTEL-SSDPEKKF512G7H
What SSD could you recommend for Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen?
Did anybody face the problem described?
 
Welcome to PCHF Computer92,

I would recommend something that is 100% guaranteed compatible or your money back, the specs that I`m getting say that yours is a PCI-E SSD and that is confirmed by Crucial here

I suggest that you change the Crucial site to the most appropriate country and then run the system scanner tool and have it tell you your best options.
 
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