450rog

[krepta3000]

Hello, everyone. My dad's laptop is pretty old, but I want to keep it going, and stop screaming at it when it slows to a crawl. I know that it has no ability to boot to USB. But what about booting from a PCMCIA card that allows me to connect a SATA drive? Or is there some other way to install a SATA drive?

I've been thinking about getting a 44 pin PATA cable, a male to male adapter to connect the gateway drive adapter, then a PATA to SATA adapter and a nice new SATA hard drive. But then how to get the cable into the main drive bay, is a stumper.

[Hammerfest]

I never had the cash to go through with it, but I was looking on one of those 64GB SSD's that are like half the size of a normal laptop drive, and getting a SATA to PATA adapter (the drive was sata), sadly, I dont have the links anymore...

BUT you might try digging around to find a solution for that... OR if you have $150~ you can get a PATA SSD drive (yes, they make them, also something I wanted to buy, and still do for my old D810, its still a BEAST)


EDIT: also, if the old drive is a 4200RPM or 5400RPM they did make 7200RPM PATA Laptop drives... still a boost... also, reformatting and starting fresh is almost ALWAYS a speed boost in and of itself...