Cook 🦘Syd on Nostr: Tech support help please. I got two old Acer Travelmate 8573 laptops, (trying to get ...
Tech support help please.
I got two old Acer Travelmate 8573 laptops, (trying to get young relatives something cheap to join a minecraft server on).
One of the HDDs seems to be dead (the other is probably almost dead), so I got a cheap little SSD with windows loaded to test/fix it.
New SSD with windows freezes on boot screen. I try Ubuntu on USB, it also freezes on boot screen.
I think the old laptops only support BIOS not UEFI.
Is there a cheap way to get an OS to boot on a new SSD?
I got two old Acer Travelmate 8573 laptops, (trying to get young relatives something cheap to join a minecraft server on).
One of the HDDs seems to be dead (the other is probably almost dead), so I got a cheap little SSD with windows loaded to test/fix it.
New SSD with windows freezes on boot screen. I try Ubuntu on USB, it also freezes on boot screen.
I think the old laptops only support BIOS not UEFI.
Is there a cheap way to get an OS to boot on a new SSD?