Putting a New Hard Drive Into a Very Old Laptop

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I will soon be in possession of a compaq armada 1530 dm with windows 95 and I am worried with a hard drive of this age that it doesn't have much life left in it. My laptop knowledge is rather limited so I have a few questions about replacing the hard drive and what way would be best to go about doing this.

Would it be possible to ghost the drive onto a 2gb partition on a small SSD?

Would it be possible to use a 2gb DOM SSD?

Would it be practical to use a CF card adapter such as this:
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Or is there a better option?

I like playing with old hardware and I'm familiar with virtual PCs, just thought I'd put that out there.

Thanks!
 
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Kind of a waste to use a drive that costs more than the entire laptop is worth but it just might work. Understand though that you won't have trim support.

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There are ide 2.5 inch sata drives, is it possible to format them for use with windows 95?