IDE SSD not recognized by BIOS

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TristramShandy

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I have been given a 10 year old Toshiba P20-504 laptop, a beautiful machine that was GBP 2000 when new.

I have cloned the HDD to a KingSpec 64GB IDE SSD, which was successful, and I can access it in a USB enclosure. However the Phoenix BIOS of the laptop will not recognize it inserted into the laptop as a boot drive.

Am I expecting too much to think a 10 year old laptop will be able to use it? There is a BIOS update available, V 1.80 as opposed to V 1.60, but on a 3rd party website, so I don't really want to try that if at all possible.

Any suggestions? I'll dig out some BIOS/machine specs if people think this is solvable.

PS. Running Windows XP SP3
 
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There is no hope! Even if one of several different types of IDE ssd's worked, it would probably not be any faster than a hard disk drive. The IDE ssd's are very slow compared to a modern 3rd generation SATA 3 6Gb/s ssd's. Microsoft Windows did not fully support ssd's until the release of Windows 7. Trying to set up an ssd to work with earlier versions of Windows can be frustrating.

Ten years ago there were no consumer oriented solid state drives. The first prototype was introduced by Samsung in 2006. Tom's Hardware published the very first review. Consumer ssd's did not take off until 2008. Those early models had their share of problems that needed to be solved. We've come a long way since then.

BTW - I just happen to have a Toshiba laptop that was manufactured in 2009. I use it when I travel. Two years ago I wound up updating the system BIOS and drivers. I also increased the memory from 1GB to 4GB, installed Windows 7 Pro 64, and installed a Kingston 94GB SATA 2, 3Gb/s ssd. Luckily it works but ssd performance cannot compare to my two desktop pc's.
 
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TristramShandy

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I thought maybe the laptop was too old, the SSD is going on ebay. I've sourced a second-hand 7200 rpm Hitachi HDD of about the same vintage as the laptop, which should boost the speed slightly.
 
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