Acer Aspire 5742 15.6 inch Laptop (Intel Core i5-480M Processor, 8gb RAM, 2Tb HDD (bought Oct 2011)

Petrolhead276
Petrolhead276 Member Posts: 5

Tinkerer

hi All,
does anyone know if the BIOS on this old Acer Aspire will support an SSD?
I have cloned my 2Tb HDD (Originally 512Mb HDD) and the cloning looks OK but I cannot get the laptop to boot from the SSD.

I used EaseUS partition Master Pro to do the cloning onto a Crucial Memory X500 4Tb SSD.

I have asked Acer support help desk who can’t even find the laptop model (s/n & model provided) hence I am asking here.

cheers.


Answers

  • Puraw
    Puraw ACE, Member Posts: 12,864 Trailblazer

    If the SATA interface/cable is Sata-3, 2.5" and not 3.5" a new 2.5" Sata-3 SSD like the Samsung 870 EVO should work OK with your Windows7 laptop, Acer stopped support for this legacy model and MS also no longer supports W7. Not sure if disk cloning or even a backup will work, you may have to reinstall Windows from scratch with the installation disk or USB-ISO image. But if you cannot even boot that is moot.

  • Petrolhead276
    Petrolhead276 Member Posts: 5

    Tinkerer

    @puraw

    thanks for the reply.

    Laptop is actually running win10 now, I should have said in original post.

    I can boot from existing 2Tb hdd. It’s just not booting from the crucial MX500 4Tb SSD (shallow form Fa tor so it plugs into the motherboard Ada interface, no cables needed) I also have a 4Tb HDD but that’s a 15mm thick driver and won’t fit into the motherboard connector. It might work with a flexible cable to the motherboard though, but I can’t find such a connector cable.

    I wish I had asked first before buying the SSD now as I could have bought the Samsung product instead.

    I’ll get on to crucial to see if they have any advice as well.

  • Puraw
    Puraw ACE, Member Posts: 12,864 Trailblazer

    Yes, Samsung 870 EVO 1-2 TB would have probably worked with a SATA-3 ribbon cable. Contact Crucial and ask them for advice.

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 11,980 Trailblazer
    edited March 22

    I've had an Aspire 5750 running a 2.5" SSD Samsung 850 SATA 3 drive for many years and its running on Win-10 Pro with no problems and has much better speeds than its oem 2.5" mechanical drive, I've also upgraded this laptops oem i5-2410M cpu to the higher spec i7-2760QM cpu and to 2x 4GB DDR3-1600MHz ram with no problems and this laptop has been operating on Win-10 Pro and the 2.5" SSD for many years without any problems what so ever. Hope this helps you out further.

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