Old laptop (2002/2003) IDE hard drive broken, what as a replacement?

One thing in advance: The laptop is about it is neither my work computer, nor is it a computer with something important is made (only if laptop 1 and 2 do not want then Methusalem ran), especially since I grew up with the computer ( Work computer from the father who was always on vacation and on whom I even then "eye" threw) am.

So, after the laptop (1.4Ghz, 1GB Ram, IDE hard drive with 60GB, built in 2002/2003 … The rest is self-evident) today was allowed to make its big update (operating system Windows 7, 32Bit), the screen remained black.

After a long back and forth, I found out that the hard drive is defective, on the other hand, the Bios battery was ALWAYS empty again (which I have only replaced 7 or 8 years ago.

Anyway, I need a new hard drive and now, considering the "big" selection of such I figured out why not an SSD.

Here there's a greater choice of the Communists (at least what the big under it understands), such as IDE to MSATA or IDE to SATA (Standadstecker).

What do you think, the laptop can technically ever communicate with an SSD?
(The targeted operating system will probably be Linux this time or maybe Windows 7 again)

Do not take the text too seriously, which is sometimes full of irony, but the core issue of hard disk is really serious.

The notebook can already respond with the right interface. However, the IDE standard does not bring the speed it would take to remember anything from the ssd.

Not to mention the challenge of having the adapter to get us the ssd in the case.

Space is more than enough for the "project"

As I said, the notebook can probably already address the ssd, but it will not be faster than a hdd.

Sure why should not work.

Also used several times, but via internal CD / DVD drive bay. An adapter drive IDE on SATA and there then the SSD purely… Runs right neatly.