Upgrading SSD on HP omen 17.3 1060 laptop

[Bashyman]

Please help.

I've bought the above laptop and want to upgrade the stock 128gb SSD boot chip with a bigger one. I've bought a samsung 960 500GB nvme SSD and want to clone the original 128gb SSD that currenty has windows.

I want to keep the installed 1tb data hdd as is.

I've tried exchanging the 1tb hdd with a formatted 750gb hdd, and then cloning the boot SSD over using AOMEI backup.

Even though it completes, once I exhange the SSD to the new one, it stated no boot device on startup. I've gone into bios, but can't see anything obvious to change. Am I doing something wrong that's obvious? I've tried clonging twince, the 1st time sector by sector, then the second time (after reformatting the 750gb) standard cloning.

Please help

BTW, once I've installed the new 500gb ssd, I want to perform a recovery and start over, but I want the 1tb data HDD to remain intact. When I installed the 750gb and took out the 1tb, I noticed the recovery part is on the 1tb. Does this mean I will lose the data on the 1tb when it recovers.

Thanks in advance

[lewy01]

Hi, try using Clonezilla - it was the the only way that worked for me. Rest apps I've tried had some issues with copying mbr info or some uefi files. Google it. it's really easy. Good luck 😉