#SSD not recognized in BIOS

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rocky hollow
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I'm the guy with Acer Extensa 5230 featuring a Celeron 575 and 3gb ram. I'm asking a probably easier question here: I recently bought a 240gb kingston ssd for this laptop, knowing solid states benefits, but it is not recognized in the bios.
Here's what I did:

  • I've tried to install win 10 on it, and the USB recognizes the SSD, but says it's unable to make partitions due to Bios problems.
  • I also tried to update bios (successfully) but after that, the SSD is still not being recognized. (Note that the bios reads "IDE0 SERIAL NUMER", but says "IDE0 NONE" Above. Also, I could only try this due to bios being very limited.
  • After some reasearches, I tried with changing some settings in the bios (such as setting the drive mode to IDENinstead of AHCI, but still not worked.
  • Lastly, I installed an external hdd by usb and booted it by this drive, mounting the ssd in the internal "plug" to be sure it wasn't an hardware problem. Infact, the Os (Linux mint) recognized the disk.
    I've saw some guys applying an ssd on this model without any problem.

Hardware:
CPU - Intel Genuine Celeron 575 1 Core 2.00 GHz
GPU - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator x3100 64MB: 8 0.5 GHz
RAM - 3GB DDR2 667MHz →1 Stick 2GB 1 1GB
(DISK - Kingston SSD A400 240GB)
Can someone help?

craggy parcel
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With the SSD installed in the laptop, is it possible to install linux to it? I'm wondering if modern windows 10 might just not support the older chipset.

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Alternatively, is it possible to clone the existing windows installation to the SSD?

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Or maybe you could try an older windows version...

rocky hollow
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I'm not sure I could try, I tried with xp and i got blue screen, I tried installing Win 10 on another pc on that ssd then mounted it back to the laptop, but after booting it up I got the error "Operating System Not Found".
Win 10 works on the hdd with that laptop though, even if it doesn't give the best experience

rocky hollow
craggy parcel
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oh, that's really weird, so the bios must have some kind of issue with it

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It might be worth asking Kingston support?

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I actually have a laptop with the same issue but it's some random cheapo brand so i just wrote it off as cursed

rocky hollow
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Oh, ye it might be worth trying to ask

ruby cloud
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You might want to try installing the 240GB Kingston A400 SSD in a computer which recognizes it, and then use Kingston's firmware updater from https://www.kingston.com/en/support/technical/ksm-firmware-update to update its firmware to the latest version.

Likewise, check with Acer to see if there is a BIOS (UEFI) firmware update for Extensa 5230 laptop and, if so, install it as well.