Upgrade standard Hard Drive in HP Pavilion fail

[Danny0428]

Hi everybody.

This must be my first hardware question on a public board since I always find my solutions on Google. But this time I gave up after 4 hours stumbling with my hardware upgrade. My problem is:

There are 2 hard drives standard in my system. One Samsung M.2 SSD as the startup/windows drive and one 1TB data drive. By factory default is the 1TB drive split in a 16GB partition named "RECOVERY (E)" and another partition is free to use.

Because I am an enthousiast photographer/videographer I need more disk space than 1TB. OK I use a NAS without problems but I thought it would be better to have all the files local to speed things up and use the NAS for backup.

Therefore I bought myself an 8TB seagate hard drive to replace the standard one in my HP pavilion but what I expected to be a 15 minutes job, it turned out in a nightmare.

After changing the physical drives I turned on the PC and imediately a BIOS error was telling me there was a Hard disk error on drive #1. I had no other choice than doing the diagnostic tests by hitting F2.

No worries. The hard drive doesn't had a partition so I ignored the test to check the bios settings but as I close the system diagnostics he booted automatically to  windows. Within windows I checked for the drive to be present, which seemed to be ok. So I ran drivemanager to assign a 16GB partition for the recovery (I had an image of the original partition) and a new partition for the rest of the drive space (about 7,7TB). Everything looked fine until I rebooted the PC and the hard disk failed again in BIOS.

I tried to change a few settings in BIOS (there is no option to manually assign hard drives?). But however the new drive is recognized in BIOS as disk1 - sata 8TB I can't get rid of the hard disk fail by booting. I checked also the way windows formatted the drive as MBR or GPT with the "diskpart / list disk" command but the drive is in GPT like it has to be for the UEFI secure boot option. After hours of searching online I decided to re-partition the drive in a 16GB and 4 x 1.8TB partitions but that helped neither. I even ran various diagnostic tests from HP, also the extended test that took a whole night). But the drive itself seems to be OK. No problems found.

My last option was a complete factory reïnstall of windows 10. Maybe it had something to do with the boot sector but even that was not a success. However, I didn't get the bootup fail without the new disk (only the SSD) so it was unlikely that it would solve the problem but hey, I was already desparate at that point.

What am I doing wrong?

I gave up now, hoping someone can give me a working solution. My only other (last) option is to buy an enclosure for the new drive and use him as an external drive via USB3 but that wasn't my intention for upgrading. I would love to hear a solution so I can keep the new drive as an internal one. So far, I changed to the old 1TB disk again to avoid the system diagnostic test by every startup. My new (expensive) drive is lying next to me until I know what to do 😞

Thanks in advance!

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

Replacing a 1TB HDD with a larger 8 TB HDD should be seamless as your PC has a UEFI BIOS and Windows 10.

You have not fully identified your PC (570-p0xx) but it would appear the operating system is on the Samsung SSD. Possibly a 128 GB or 256 GB M.2 SSD.

The 16 GB HP Recovery partition is usually on the boot disk. It could be on the factory 1 TB HDD in this instance. I have not worked with 570-p0xx PC.

Disk 0 should be the Samsung SSD, disk 1 should be the 8 TB HDD.

Did you use Disk Management to initialize the new 8 TB disk, bring it online, and format the disk?

The HP Recovery partition is redundant running Windows 10. There are many ways to reinstall Windows 10 using Microsoft tools which negates using HP Recovery options

The 8 TB disk is for data. Installing this disk should be quick and painless unless you have created Program installation dependencies between the OS disk and the data disk.

But this problem should not cause BIOS errors at boot, it would mess up the operating system.

Regards

[Danny0428]

Hi Grzwacz. Yes indeed, the full model name is 570-p077nb with a 128GB SSD as the bootdisk with Windows 10. The recovery partition was original on the Data drive so I restored it to a 16GB partition on the new 8TB data drive with a  Macrium reflect image .

I did use the disk management  from within windows to create the 2 partitions and they are GPT for sure.

There are no dependencies between the OS and the data drive as far as I know, except for the recovery. But even without the original 1TB data disk connected (only the SSD) everything works fine ...

I realy don't see why it shouldn't work 😞