Aspire One after surgerySome users have apparently been complaining that the internal flash drive in the Acer Aspire One is a little on the slow side – which means it’s laptop makeover time again.

Swapping disks is slightly more complex than bumping up the storage on the Asus Eee PC 901, but thankfully JKKMobile is on hand to walk us through the process.

Basically you need to completely remove the main circuit board to reach the old drive, and then switch it out for a CF card adapter (which will need a couple of corners snipping off first). Then just slip in a faster card and you’re ready to go again. It’s not for the faint hearted, but could be an option if you’re handy with screwdriver and find your machine a little on the slow side.

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  • http://www.pilotman.com Kristian

    Thank you. I am looking to exchange the hard drives between two aspire ones and this guide will come in handy.

  • http://nyquist.ca nyquist

    While this will work temporarily, since compact flash cards aren’t typically available in NAND flavors, you’re going to run into a dead flash driver sooner rather than later, so better back up often and be prepared to crack’er open again to replace it when it burns out. This is well documented and one of the reasons why we don’t all just use cheap usb drives for our OSs. If you’re married to this idea, to extend the life of your CF card, remember to shut off swap, turn off all logging, never use any p2p programs, streaming radio w/ cache, or any other constant-IO process.

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