Saw similiar topic on this forum unsolved and outdated.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?
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