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   Cook ?Syd (cook@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 21:09:09 JST Cook ?Syd

   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?

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     Sir Brett Mahoney (kaiserhase@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 21:09:09 JST Sir Brett Mahoney

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     @cook think win 10 was the last OS from Microsoft that supports BIOS.