storage bays and hard drives

[tinkerstoys]

How many drives can be installed and where are they located in this work station?

[Ronaldo_Ferrei2]

Hi tinkerstoys,

According to the document quickspecs:

http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04834941.pdf?ver=9

"Four (4) dedicated drive slots, two (2) M.2 slots, and two (2) 2.5”drive bays."

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[tinkerstoys]

Thank you and I know what you said but can all 4 drives be installed at the same time? Where are the primary and secondary drives located?

[Ronaldo_Ferrei2]

Hi tinkerstoys, sorry...

The same time - All drivers (4), but you need to take the DVD as explained in the third video:

Removing and Replacing the Solid State Drive on the HP ZBook 17 G3 Mobile Workstation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3p3wQTphY

Removing and Replacing the Hard Disk Drive Assembly on the HP ZBook 17 G3 Mobile Workstation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV3H-hxCkXs

HP ZBook - add a 2nd HDD or SSD by replacing DVD optical drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg08kdaF_To

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[tinkerstoys]

Frist my G3 does not have a DVD drive. I know it has two 2.5" drive bays and two 2280 m2 ssd slots. But which is the main and secondary of each?

[Ronaldo_Ferrei2]

By default, the primary is always for 2.5 disk and secondary SSD.

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[tinkerstoys]

Look my problem is I bought a G3 with an 1tb drive with oem Win 7 on it and a second SSD drive that the sell installed Win 10 that was working fine. Now I have only Win 7 on both drives and I have no idea what happen. The Win 10 SSD drive now has a old windows folder on it. Seems to have been down graded to Win 7.