HP Compaq NX9600 PATA to SSD 120 Gb
I purchased for less than $100 a HP NX9600 Pentium 4 HT 3.40GHz 1GB 100GB laptop for my young grandchild. I have not taken it apart to check the hard drive but I believe it has a PATA interface. This ...
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I am generally all for salvaging old equipment, however, in this case.. Not so much.
As far as I am aware, you will not find SSD in PATA form factor.
PATA to SATA adapters are available, however, they take space and with laptop PATA drives there is no separate power connector, it is all integrated in one connection on the PATA drive so you would need a breakout adapter to get power for the adapter board and SATA drive.
Your best bet is to reuse the existing 100 GB PATA drive.
As far as putting Win7 on that laptop, you have an uphill battle finding drivers that are going to work. This is a huge problem with HP and MS, HP has removed pretty much all legacy drivers from their official site. MS is not any better since most of the legacy drivers for legacy OS and hardware have been removed or moved to website locations which no longer work correctly.
You might be far better off attempting 8.1 or Win10 but there is no guarantee you will be able to get drivers for the hardware since MS has become very hostile towards older hardware heck even new hardware less than 2-3yrs old sometimes is not supported by MS..
If you have a legit win7 license, you can download a copy of Win10 in ISO format and activate Win10.
Create a bootable USB stick or DVD from that ISO.
To use your Win7 license, you MUST skip the step at the beginning when the install program asks for key. You MUST start the install with no Internet connection also.
You let W10 installer finish, set the Win Updates to deferred (otherwise it will start updating right away).
Once you have W10 desktop, you can connect to Internet, attempt to activate, W10 will error on activation and offer you the option to enter a DIFFERENT KEY.
It is at that point you can now enter the W7 Key.
W10 now will activate with a DIGITAL license.
Be aware, that there many flavors of licenses, W7 Home will only work for W10 HOME, W7 PRO will only activate W10 PRO. Retail license only activate Retail versions, OEM licenses only activate OEM versions..
And by the way, I am currently typing this message using a P4 at 2.8 ghz with XP.. It can be done but you need to use FireFox last known version that supported XP but I would expect in the next few yrs that it will no longer work with most websites..
As far as I am aware, you will not find SSD in PATA form factor.
PATA to SATA adapters are available, however, they take space and with laptop PATA drives there is no separate power connector, it is all integrated in one connection on the PATA drive so you would need a breakout adapter to get power for the adapter board and SATA drive.
Your best bet is to reuse the existing 100 GB PATA drive.
As far as putting Win7 on that laptop, you have an uphill battle finding drivers that are going to work. This is a huge problem with HP and MS, HP has removed pretty much all legacy drivers from their official site. MS is not any better since most of the legacy drivers for legacy OS and hardware have been removed or moved to website locations which no longer work correctly.
You might be far better off attempting 8.1 or Win10 but there is no guarantee you will be able to get drivers for the hardware since MS has become very hostile towards older hardware heck even new hardware less than 2-3yrs old sometimes is not supported by MS..
If you have a legit win7 license, you can download a copy of Win10 in ISO format and activate Win10.
Create a bootable USB stick or DVD from that ISO.
To use your Win7 license, you MUST skip the step at the beginning when the install program asks for key. You MUST start the install with no Internet connection also.
You let W10 installer finish, set the Win Updates to deferred (otherwise it will start updating right away).
Once you have W10 desktop, you can connect to Internet, attempt to activate, W10 will error on activation and offer you the option to enter a DIFFERENT KEY.
It is at that point you can now enter the W7 Key.
W10 now will activate with a DIGITAL license.
Be aware, that there many flavors of licenses, W7 Home will only work for W10 HOME, W7 PRO will only activate W10 PRO. Retail license only activate Retail versions, OEM licenses only activate OEM versions..
And by the way, I am currently typing this message using a P4 at 2.8 ghz with XP.. It can be done but you need to use FireFox last known version that supported XP but I would expect in the next few yrs that it will no longer work with most websites..
