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01-22-2017 11:03 AM
Product name:HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC
Product number:E2G88EA#ACQ
BIOS:F.65-11/20/2014
Hi Guys, a it of help would be much appreciated..
My ENVY has two 1TB HDD's in it (came stock like that from when I bought it) and I've had the PC for a couple of years now and only filled the one HDD to around half way. I'm thinking of taking out one of the HDD's and replacing it with a 500GB SSD and running everything on that, I think it'll speed up the boot time and run my programmes much faster. Also I really don't need the space I've got in there now as I much prefer to store all my bulky data on organised external HDD's. So here are my questions...
1) How do I know which slot my current C drive is in? My one HDD is a C drive (Partioned into "THIS PC (C:)" and "RECOVERY (D:)") and everything is on there at the moment, the other is "DATA (E:)" which is completely empty, I want to swap the full one out for an SSD. So how do I work out where its actually plugged in, top or botom?
2) Which SSD's would you recomend? How should I go about choosing one? How will I be sure its compatable before I purchase it?
3) Do you have any step by step's I can follow to help me along?
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01-22-2017 11:24 AM
Hi,
Welcome to HP support forum. Please use the follwing manual, it shows you how to work on HDD's (from page 48):
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03922401.pdf
1. C: and 😧 are on the primary HDD.
2. Basically any standard 2.5" SSD on market today can do the job. Please try Crucial or Samsung. I have not had any luck with others, they won't work or simply die just under 4 years (my two Sandisk SSD's died within 1 week).
3. I normally do the following steps
(a) Clone the existing old HDD to SSD. In your case you only need to clone C: and can use smaller SSD.
(b) Physical swap.
Note: You won't be able to use Factory settings because the new SSD is smaller (capacity) than the original HDD therefore 😧 would become useless.
Regards.
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01-22-2017 11:24 AM
Hi,
Welcome to HP support forum. Please use the follwing manual, it shows you how to work on HDD's (from page 48):
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03922401.pdf
1. C: and 😧 are on the primary HDD.
2. Basically any standard 2.5" SSD on market today can do the job. Please try Crucial or Samsung. I have not had any luck with others, they won't work or simply die just under 4 years (my two Sandisk SSD's died within 1 week).
3. I normally do the following steps
(a) Clone the existing old HDD to SSD. In your case you only need to clone C: and can use smaller SSD.
(b) Physical swap.
Note: You won't be able to use Factory settings because the new SSD is smaller (capacity) than the original HDD therefore 😧 would become useless.
Regards.
***
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