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    acer aspire 5050, broken sata controller

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dutchschultz, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. dutchschultz

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    i believe my sata controller to be broken, i replaced the drive with a confirmed working sata drive and it doesn't detect it, even in bios.

    so at the moment im booting from an xp installed on a usb key, and it sucks.. well it wouldn't suck if i could get wifi working on it.

    so the question i have is can i boot from an esata notebook adaptor card?
    .... are there any other options?

    i'm going to try a vista live cd next
     
    dutchschultz, Jan 28, 2009
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