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HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Base Model Small Form Factor PC
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I’m trying to upgrade my PC to an SSD drive, as it’s a bit dated.  I’m studying IT so I need something fast.  A similar PC I have been using is now very slow.  This PC I want to use I have made dual boot and I’ve installed some programs I need for my studies so I really just want to clone the HDD onto the SSD.

I purchased a dock that will take 2.5” drives and 3.5” drives.  But I completely forgot about the lugs on the HDD in my PC, that slide into the bracket.  Is there a way to get these lugs off without damaging them?  Special screwdriver?  Also how do I get the lugs onto my SSD to be able to install it?  Do they come on the conversion bracket?  This I haven’t got yet as I remembered there possibly being a bracket already in one of my PCs.  But I can’t see it on this one.

 

i mean I guess I could just use a SATA cable to attach it to the PC I’m currently using and clone it that way.  But I got the dock so I could do it offline.  But now I can’t.  Or maybe I could somehow connect the drive to one port of the dock with a SATA cable?  Although that probably needs a cable I don’t have (male-female SATA)?

 

EDIT:  I found the place to put a 2.5” drive, right under the 3.5” drive, so I wasn’t imagining it, but again it needs the lugs on it to slide into place.  Where can I get them?  Image attached.

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your system should have a HD 2.5 in mounting tray

 

HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Hard Drive Caddy - 1B33DNM00-600-G

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234887766482

 

 

and this tray will use either the blue or the smaller black mounting grommets

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325735248782?itmmeta=01HS5VE914BBJZ5PWX4RAJ0N1C&hash=item4bd755738e:g:s7EAA...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235394880617?itmmeta=01HS5VBWCCJ8Z1X67P93D88PQH&hash=item36cea0d469:g:-uoAA...

 

amazon 3.5 to 2.5 adapter that will also fit in external HD docks

 

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Adapter-Mounting-Bracket-Interface/dp/B01LZWX6PD/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2Ijo...

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your system should have a HD 2.5 in mounting tray

 

HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Hard Drive Caddy - 1B33DNM00-600-G

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234887766482

 

 

and this tray will use either the blue or the smaller black mounting grommets

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325735248782?itmmeta=01HS5VE914BBJZ5PWX4RAJ0N1C&hash=item4bd755738e:g:s7EAA...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235394880617?itmmeta=01HS5VBWCCJ8Z1X67P93D88PQH&hash=item36cea0d469:g:-uoAA...

 

amazon 3.5 to 2.5 adapter that will also fit in external HD docks

 

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Adapter-Mounting-Bracket-Interface/dp/B01LZWX6PD/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2Ijo...

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Thank you.  Those are the grommets I need, but my biggest problem is how to get them out of the HDD to fit it into the dock.  Then I could reuse them on the SSD while I try to source some here in NZ.  I’m not sure what screwdriver they take, it’s not standard.  I do have a little tool kit of weird and wonderful screwdrivers, phone opening kit, so maybe there’s one in there.  Also have a couple of drive replacement kits but not for HP, so I have a couple of other proprietary screwdrivers.

 

Yes I did find a mounting bay for the 2.5” drive, had a feeling it was there from my tear down, but that was some time ago, so I wasn’t sure.  Now I have confirmed that and edited my post.  But that uses the rail and grommet arrangement too.

 

Looks like it’s T15, I think I have a Torx screwdriver in my TiVo drive upgrade kit might work.  I seem to recall buying another screwdriver kit with propriety screwdrivers for something else I couldn’t open (PS4 maybe?), plus a phone repair kit but I checked yesterday and don’t think has it.  Chances are I already have one, if not it seems I can get one from a hardware store here for under NZ$10.  And I found the screws, hardest part was getting the name right for my Google search, but your reply helped with that thank you.

 

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