Acer Aspire 1 Hard Drive

[Vikki Nagindas]

Thisis what you do to do a clean install and make yourlaptop perform at its best, this is for either Win-10 or Win-11 for yourA515-56, btw install Win-11 as its the best for the future and your laptop hasall the drivers for this OS, its my opinion only but you can install eitherOS's.

Follow these steps below:

1. Have the Win Installation Boot USB and another USB with the Aspire A515-56"IRST(Intel Rapid Storage Technology) Driver" onto another USB ready, asif you don't have the IRST installed then you won't be able to install onto theboot drive or any drive.

2. Start the install process and when you get to the install option choose> "Custom Install Windows only (advanced)" and ifyou don't see the boot drive then install the "IRST (Intel RapidStorage Technology) Driver" as that is why "Does NOT showme a hard drive when trying to install windows via boot from USB"

3. Then continue with theinstallation until the end "see this visual Win-11guide" and follow all the steps.

4. Don't worry and/or changeanything in the bios as you don't need to

5. With bios update you don't need to upgrade anythingas you only do a bios update if you have a specific thing wrongwith your laptop that the bios title fixes e.g and the last bios fix for yourlaptop the A515-56 is Version 1.28 that fixes the following:

1. Implement intel memory patch for on board ram.

2. Support Micron on board ram and module.

3. Support LITEON WLAN.

4. Support HT Micron on board ram.

If you have any of the problems above then install this bios update.

5. Do all the WindowsUpdates and after install the IntelDriver & Support Assistant and do a scan to give you all thelatest Intel drivers and update them!

6. After look into Device Manager and see if all the drivers are up to date, ifnot then get uninstalled drivers from the A515-56 Acer site and updatethem with the OEM drivers.

7. Do the CrucialSystem Scan also this scan will also tell you the max and bestcompatible ram for your laptop. I would upgrade ram to 16GB and add 1x 8GBof the same ram that you have (installCPUz to see your OEM spec ram) and update to the same 1x 8GB typeram, also upgrade to the type M.2 NVMe PCIe type SSD drives like aSamsung or the WD NS 850 or 750 types.

6. Make sure that you have TRIMenabled within windows.

Do all the above as all those process will install and make your laptopperform at its best. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

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I want to install a second hard drive as my current one is always within a couple of gigs of being full. So I've been looking and found where it SEEMS like I can do it. The thread I linked to even says so but it acts as if you open the hard drive door and the cable should already be there. It isn't.

Lower left hand corner is where the hard drive would go. I removed the entire cover to look what was below the hard drive door/slot. I can not for the love of acer find where the cable would attach. I've heard SATA drive mentioned in threads but I don't see a sata spot to attach a cable. I can't find a place that shows it attached. Every video or post I ever find just shows sliding it in or attaching it to a cable that is already there. Anyone have any advice?

Here are the parts for the A517-51G 2.5" SATA HDD kit which was included with this laptop and contains the following cable and bracket and screws. This laptop also accommodates M.2 SSD drives which Acer lists the highest capacity of the 512GB MICRON - MTFDDAV512TBN-

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I've seen this question multiple times in here, but none of the answers were helpful to me. Basically, I've managed to install Ubuntu on mi laptop (along with Windows 10), but I cannot boot it because, like the title says, my Ubuntu partition doesn't detect the hard drive (the Windows partition works perfectly). The only way that Ubuntu can see the disks is by suspending/sleeping the laptop for a few seconds and waking it up, then it works fine. So I need a way to put the computer to sleep before booting, or something like it. Is there a way to do this?To be clear, I've already tried several things: change SATA mode to AHCI, disabled fast boot and secure boot, edit the boot config file by adding something like "test_suspend=mem", among others. Nothing worked.

Read and experienced various frustrating problems of installing Ubuntu on PCs without AHCI setting (especially new PCs with SSD hard drives) myself before. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on new Acer Aspire3 A317-53 laptop computers along side Windows 11 and surprisingly no issue at all throughout the installation process. Now I have dual boot for two such PCs successfully. Maybe 22.04 LTS is a solution by itself now. Hope this helps.

Try it and come back and tell us how it goes. download and burn into flash drive; you will need to have 2 USB drives, one for PLoP and the other containing the OS or you can use a DVD to launch the OS (cringe)

Is the keyboard working at all? Try with an external one. You could also install Ubuntu to a hard drive on one machine transfer it to the Acer laptop and that will boot if it there is nothing basically wrong with the laptop. Follow -create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#0 . Installing a Linux to a hard drive is a quick process.

My ZG5 literally has NO HDD. No connectors, cables or mount points inside! I installed Win 10 OK, but updates are impossible due to lack of storage. Windows reports 11GB of storage, which I presume is on the MB. RAM is 1.5GB. Any ideas how to increase long-term storage? There are 2 SD-like card slots - can either of these be used for HDD substitute?

At least with the 1.8" ZIF versions, you can steal a drive from a dead iPod or Zune in the size you want as a last resort. Netbooks were a fad, and the OEMs all knew it so they didn't care if this became an issue years later.

If you are lucky enough to have a 2.5" system, you can install just about any drive under 2TB you want - as long as the right SATA support is there. As a general rule, with the ZG5 if it came with an SSD, it's usually IDE. TYPICALLY, this drive is difficult to find (and if you do, it often costs more than the netbook is worth). The IDE drives are just not worth upgrading due to cost :(.

I just opened up my ZG5 it only has the SMall SSD8gb with ribbon assy. there must be 2 different versions of same model number out there. I did find that there are 2 SD card slots I picked up 2 128gb on ebay for $22.00 so 256gb is pretty good for this little blue netbook.

If it came with a hard drive, it's easy. The ones with the IDE SSD apparently lack a SATA port. If you have one of those the word is that you need a iPod style IDE hard drive or an IDE SSD that goes in a wireless slot like connector.

The upside in doing this is that your data is easy to access if your laptop fails or if you want to leave your laptop unattended for a short while e.g. a library - simply unmount the card and remove it and take it with you. It is also unobtrusive i.e. doesn't protrude from the body of the laptop.

At this point, I bought adapter, which allowed me to connect the hard drive via USB to another computer. Finally the disk was kind of alive. So following steps were made with hard drive connected with my 2nd notebook via USB adapter.

I have performed HDD swap for new SSD on my Acer Aspire ES1-311 laptop. During disassembly I disconnected the battery by pushing button directly on my mobo and then unplugged the cables from the motherboard.

At that point I tried switching back to the old HDD but the same thing is happening and as a bonus I can't get to recovery partition because "laptop couldn't load it, try contacting your administrator". It probably got messed up during partition cloning or year ago when I made another partition for my dual boot.

I am probably accepting the fact that the battery has died, but it seems so weird because it was disconnected for the whole time and I didn't bend it/heat it/smashed screwdriver into it and the timing, that some of the cells died just now is very unlikely.

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