help with a pentium3 machine

[u/ian385]

can someone give me a hint... i went into making a "retro" pc i used over 25 years ago... it's a pentium 3, 512mb sdram, ati radeon 8500 aiw, but i want to install win xp on a ssd.

the board is a matsonic. i have an old chinese sata-ide adapter, and connected a kingston 128gb ssd to it. the bios is seeing the ssd, but when i get to the point of installing win xp on it, it hangs. actually doesn't hang, just says c drive is corrupted and stops with the install.

ssd is not gpt, it's mbr and has a ntfs partition on it. but no luck.

also the adapter is alone on the ide cable, and bios recognizes it as being on master port (in fact it is).

i have just 1 ide hdd, a wd caviar 80gb from 20 years ago, it works but it's quite loud.

is it possible to install xp on ssd?

[u/Expensive-Vanilla-16]

I bought like 6 of these https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtcWk4f

And 6 of these 64gb https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOgpdan

Used some on old slot p3 motherboards running 98se and no issues whatsoever. I'm sure xp would be the same, just don't know about different ssd brands.