How to replace Hard disk on Acer V5 571G

1. Remove ALL the screws under the bottom of the laptop

2. Remove the keyboard from the laptop

3. Remove ALL the screws

4. Remove the old harddisk

5. Install a new one. (Please note that the new 2.5” SATA hard disk need to 7mm thin)

How to replace Hard disk on Acer V5 571G

AMD SB850/SB950 bug - performance issue

If you are using AMD SB850/SB950, and also you find your hard disk running very slow. (A new purchase machine and also clean install Windows) For example, when you click a software to run, the whole windows is freezing (cannot open the other software and even the task manager, the performance and reliability monitor about the harddisk is empty (No information is show up).

It maybe you hit the bug of the SATA IDE combined mode.

Solution:

Go to BIOS and disable the “SATA IDE Combined Mode”

If you cannot find this option, please make sure all the SATA connection are using RAID/AHCI. (No “IDE” option have been set for SATA device)

 

After you make the above change, you should see the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller – show “AMD SATA Controller” only, no other IDE device/controller.

AMD SB850/SB950 bug - performance issue

Advanced Format - Harddisk

Advanced Format changes a hard drive's sector size from 512 bytes (the standard for the past three decades) to 4K

For more information:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/WDs-1TB-Caviar-Green-w-Advanced-Format-Windows-XP-Users-Pay-Attention/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2888

Advanced Format - Harddisk

MyDefrag v4 (fromly JkDefrag)

MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a set of easy to use scripts for endusers, a scripting engine for demanding users, a screensaver, and a combined Windows plus commandline version that can be scheduled by the Windows task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts.

http://www.mydefrag.com/

MyDefrag v4 (fromly JkDefrag)

JkDefrag

JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources

http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

JkDefrag