


1) whether it is possible to upgrade ssd to higher specs say 256 GB and clone drive partitions of HDD to SSD and make it bootable 2) if above is not possible, can we clone drive partitions of HDD to 256 GB SSD and replace HDD. Just burned a DVD for my Win XP installation, and it seems to install properly now. It has 500GB HDD and 24GB Sandisk U100 SSD as cache drive. If some of you guys know how to overcome this, let me know please. On Windows, once I click "next" on the Install Windows screen, I get some "Windows is unable to install to the selected location. However, I am having a difficult time installing an OS on my hard drive. My 3.3v board arrived last night, and my computer recognized it right away (Yay).

I will keep you guys updated when I finish my modification. The SanDisk® U100 SSD delivers high SATA 6 Gb/s performance at a competitive cost. The laptop will not know to boot from the mSATA SSD though so you need to read the following article on how to do so.

I purchased a 5v adaptor, and x41 needs a 3.3v. However, if you can access it, then you can upgrade it to a larger capacity mSATA SSD (do a 'mSATA SSD' search on newegg or amazon to get a list of them) so that you can actually use it as an OS drive. My computer doesn't seem to recognize it.Īm I doing something wrong? Do I have to flash the BIOS first? Or is there a setting somewhere in the BIOS I need to change?Īppreciated all your help and Looking forward to a answer. PCI-E MSATA SSD 50MM 3.3V to 2.5" IDE 5V 44PIN on ebayĪfter I replaced these with my old PATA drive from a X41.
