Elite 8300 AIO 24gb msata disc too full i cant reset

[FYDStar]

I received this HP 8300 Elite AIO without a main hard drive, so installed a 120gb ssd. I did not realise that it already has a 24 gb msata ssd installed as standard? Somehow Windows 10 was installed onto the 24gb drive and not the 120 gb drive. consequently i cannot reset windows as it is ridiculously small!. Is there someway to copy the msata over to the 120gb drive and then have it boot from that drive?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Looking at chapter 1, page 2 of the service manual, the 24 GB mSATA SSD is used as a cache to accelerate the mechanical hard drive.

c03821564.pdf (hp.com)

Optional mSATA module that can be used as a cache or SSD for the Elite 8300 or as a second drive for the Pro 6300

Since you installed a SATA SSD, there is no need for such a feature.

What I suggest you do is to either clone the mSATA SSD's contents to the 120 GB SSD and remove the 24 GB mSATA SSD or remove the 24 GB mSATA SSD and reinstall W10 on the 120 GB SSD.

After you get Windows moved or clean installed to the 120 GB SSD and can boot from it, you can also try and format the 24 GB mSATA SSD and use it for file storage.

You can use the free Macrium Reflect software for the drive cloning.

You want the software on the left side of the page under the Backup at Home Section.

Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition

Since you are cloning a smaller hard drive capacity to a larger hard drive capacity, you need to set the software up to do that, so you have no unallocated space remaining on the larger drive.

Cloning to larger SSD - Unallocated space issue (macrium.com)

[FYDStar]

Many thanks for this and sorry for the delay in replying. I will try this today

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.