Hey,
I'm planning on saving my old laptop from a salvage pile by updating it's HDD into an SSD (among other really cheap fixes). It'll probably serve me only occasionally. Our nearest vendor constantly sells mSata SDDs at 30-40% discounts (people seem to open the boxes, realize they should have gotten M.2 and return them, so the vendor just resells the opened items), which makes me wonder; would an mSata disk coupled with a cheap mSATA SSD To 2.5" SATA 6.0 Gps Adapter work? The main problem is that I have a Windows XP on this dv5-1095eo (it actually came with Vista but... yeah...) and to get the XP to install in the first place I had to modify an AHCI driver into the installation disc. Would this cause any problems if I were to either clone the existing HDD into the mSata SSD, or performing a clean install of the Windows XP (with the AHCI drivers included)? Is there anything special I need to take into consideration?
Thank you in advance!
I'm planning on saving my old laptop from a salvage pile by updating it's HDD into an SSD (among other really cheap fixes). It'll probably serve me only occasionally. Our nearest vendor constantly sells mSata SDDs at 30-40% discounts (people seem to open the boxes, realize they should have gotten M.2 and return them, so the vendor just resells the opened items), which makes me wonder; would an mSata disk coupled with a cheap mSATA SSD To 2.5" SATA 6.0 Gps Adapter work? The main problem is that I have a Windows XP on this dv5-1095eo (it actually came with Vista but... yeah...) and to get the XP to install in the first place I had to modify an AHCI driver into the installation disc. Would this cause any problems if I were to either clone the existing HDD into the mSata SSD, or performing a clean install of the Windows XP (with the AHCI drivers included)? Is there anything special I need to take into consideration?
Thank you in advance!
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