how to install windows 10 on 1000gb hdd + 16gb ssd

[hpenvy1]

Hi HP support forum,

My Hp pc has 1000gb hdd + 16 ssd and that is what i call a hybrid, hope im right about this. I have just purchased a orginal microsoft windows 10 home 64 bit version, and i thought i could just go ahead as i used to with windows 7 install on my old laptop. The thing is i deleted everything during the attempt to install windows 10, and i havent made recovery disk or recieved them when i purchased the pc, and i thought that the install itself, would figure out how the hybrid should be partitioned, but the windows 10 installed itself on disk 1 the 14,90 gb , and then the 931,51 gb hdd was unallocated in disk management. Am i right about that the windows 10 should be installed on disk 0 - the harddrive with 931,51 gb space ? and if im right, how do i make that happen, and also benfit from the 16 gb ssd ?

hope to get some help.

best regards

hpenvy1

[hpenvy1]

And would you recommend me to install the drivers from hp drivers page or via windows update ? If you recommend from hp drivers page, could you please tell me in which order they shall be installed .

the product number is J2H80EA#UUW could you please provide me with a link to where i can check what hardware my model have.

Thank you

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

W10 x64 according to MS requires a minimum of 20 GB so I don't know what you are doing when you say W10 installed on the less than 16gb usable SSD.

The BIOS posted for your PCI is almost two years old and your PC may require a BIOS update to support the later versions of W10.

If your PC has a SATA mini SSD card installed then I would suggest removing it before you attempt to install an earlier version of W10 (before the anniversary update).  You may be in a conundrum with W10 as it likes to update to the latest version of W10 which might not run on your PC.

If your PC came with a software product caching product such as Condusive Expresscache then you might want to review this thread. If this was your case, then I suggest that you might consider using the Intel hardware caching scheme instead after your get your PC back up and running.

[mdklassen]

> My Hp pc has 1000gb hdd + 16 ssd and that is what i call a hybrid.

What is the manufacturer-name and model-number?

Is it two physical devices, or just one?

Using the Windows built-in  "Computer Disk Management", which drive shows multiple partitions?

The two "physical" disks are labelled "Disk 0" and "Disk 1".

The 16GB USB memory-stick is labelled "Disk 2".

Note that "pure" SSD devices do their own "management" -- rather than repeatedly using some "cells", over and over, and not using some cells at all, they try to "balance" the usage of all the blocks.

Compare to a bartender opening many bottles of the same brand of whiskey, to pour "randomly" from them, or just having one open bottle, and repeatedly pouring from it, until it is empty.  At the bar, it's probably better to use just one bottle, while inside the SSD, it's definitely better to use "all" the available cells.

Also, some of those "hybrid" disk-drives do their own performance-management, by recognizing the "most-frequently-accessed" blocks of disk-storage, and (silently) migrating them onto the SSD, and making it "transparent" to the computer-user about which blocks are stored where.

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

A true hybrid HD is typically referred to as a SSHD. As such, there isn't a partition that is accessible by Windows that is a dedicated SSD. That leaves you with a separate SSD device which doesn't meet the W10 x64 minimum size.

Build the latest HP USB diagnostic flash and boot it up after power on (F2). You should be using diagnostic version 6.6.2. Once the diagnostic flash has been boot up then go to system information then hard drives. Look at the display for the installed HD devices. You should see two devices. See the below image as an example.  Please confirm what is displayed.

HP Hardware Diagnostics