Where is the ssd Boot drive in the Omen 900-260XE

[Ironhelix]

There are 4 drive bays on the cube and in the drive Bay 1, there is a magnetic Segate 2.5 TB drive.  The Boot disc is a 475GB SSD and it's running out of space.  The other three drive bays are empty.  Where is this drive so I can upgrade it to a 2TB SSD?

[Ironhelix]

I found the drive.  It's a chip screwed to the motherboard.  If I clone that drive and add the ssd that I cloned, will the machine ask me which drive I want to boot from so I can select the larger drive and then use the chip drive as data storage?

[old_geekster · Accepted solution]

@Ironhelix , welcome to the forum.

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@Ironhelix wrote:

I found the drive.  It's a chip screwed to the motherboard.  If I clone that drive and add the ssd that I cloned, will the machine ask me which drive I want to boot from so I can select the larger drive and then use the chip drive as data storage?

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Glad that you found the M.2, SSD.  Yes, after you have cloned the current SSD to the new one, you should go into the BIOS/UEFI and select the new SSD as the boot drive.

Here is the Motherboard Specifications page: https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/omen-x-by-hp-desktop-pc-900-200i/17155887/document/c05787238

You can look at the motherboard diagram to see where everything is located; including the M.2.

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