Question Aspire 5100 refuses to work with ssd

[geojerk]

Saw similiar topic on this forum unsolved and outdated. Here's the story. I have an Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi i've upgraded to 2cores 4gig ram so it became pretty usable for my text work, after all, that's the only pc i have on hand. The problem is: 80 gb PATA drive, no sata interfaces, only 2 ide. Didn't want to waste money on unresellable crap like pata - hdd or - ssd. Already had 120gb sata ssd, purchased MCA004 v1.3 IDEmale-SATAfemale adapter. Phoenix BIOS and bootable usb drive detected ssd correctly, but system crashes badly with vertical stripes (screen photo) on win7 usb installation and on formatting under boot-usb. Also system BSODs on cloned from IDE drive windows. System can't launch windows from ssd by USB-SATA adapter, so starting IDE as 2nd drive is impossible for me too. After bricking my laptop by latest bios update attempt and several weeks of recovering pre-latest bios with floppies, i've decided to purchase mSATA ssd + M811IDE-mSATA adapter (some forums told these adapters are much more compatible). But system crashed exactly same way with mSATA ssd. So frustrated about this laptop... BIOS has no IDE/AHCI function. Can regedit for AHCI switch help? With only 1 IDE drive bootable, i'm afraid to get brick after regedit again. What else can I try?

 

[gasaraki]

Instead of trying to transfer the current Windows installation to the new ssd, why don't you try just use your original adapter and install Windows from scratch? Transferring Windows installations will cause issues especially with IDE and SSDs, etc. You have to let Windows install the proper stuff from scratch.

 

[geojerk]

Instead of trying to transfer the current Windows installation to the new ssd, why don't you try just use your original adapter and install Windows from scratch? Transferring Windows installations will cause issues especially with IDE and SSDs, etc. You have to let Windows install the proper stuff from scratch.

Thanks for reply! I installed win7 with winntsetup to 120gb sata ssd via usb sata adapter, but it worked fine only with this adapter. With ide-sata adapter attached windows freezes on Windows start words or launches repair utility that fixes nothing. Booting with usb-sata adapter launches repair utility with no effect too. Installation from usb stick still crashes system same way.