upgrade from HHD to SSD ?

[boatmoter]

Hi, have a older notebook and would like to see if I can speed it up a little, first, is my book 32 or 64 bit? I loaded win 10 pro 32 bit into it, but, is the notebook supposed to be 64 bit? and  can I upgrade from a SATA   HHD to a SSD? seems if so,it must take a special SSD, have one, but the connection config is different and won't fit.. I see adapters for sale to mount the SSD, but will it speed up this old notebook??   stuck in slo mo

[WAWood]

@boatmoter 

I can't find any detail specs for the model number you posted but I did find one review that indicated the processor is 32-bit only.  So, you can't run 64-bit on that model.

If the existing drive is IDE, not SATA, that means the bus is 133 and the slowest SATA speed is 150.  That means that even if you do put an SSD in it, that SSD will not speed up your PC noticeably due to the bus speed limitation.

Also, there is very little spare room in laptops, and since I have used IDE-to-SATA adapters in older PCs, I don't see how you are going to get one to fit inside the laptop.

[boatmoter]

THANKS.. it is a Sata

[WAWood]

@boatmoter 

That's good news --but since all recent laptop HDDs are already SATA, you should not need an adapter for the SSD.

[boatmoter]

I put a sata 3 SSD in it, it fit right in, cloned the SSD from the HDD, but would not boot up,said no operating system in it. so I formatted it again using diskpart, then  tried to load windows into it, said it could not install it on that drive because the pc could not run that type of drive..( in so many words) , so, is this laptop incapable of running a sata 1-2 or 3 SSD ??

[WAWood]

@boatmoter 

I wouldn't think so -- especially since that is the same interface as laptop HDDs.

You said you "cloned" the drive, but did you really "clone" it -- as in copying ALL of the partitions? Or did you just copy the OS partition?