15-as133cl

[Bizon]

Hi, I would like to add ssd to this laptop. 

I found on service manual that motherboard also have the possibility to put there 512-GB, M2, PCIe, NVMe solid-state drive supporting TLC 857487-001 

is it instead of HDD or additional to already existing HDD? 

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes your PC supports M2 drives (PCIe or SataIII) which you can install in the M2 slot. This is in addition to the regular Hard drive. If you choose this option the fastest performer will be the PCIe NVMe drives. You should reinstall windows 10 and applications on this drive which will greatly improve performance of your PC. Use the regular drive for data such as photos, music, films etc...

Let me know if you need further help,

David

[javal123]

Can anyone confirm success in installing NVMe on the standard 15-as133cl that came with 1TB HDD.

Earlier models of Envy 15t that was bought with HDD had problems accepting NVMe because of firmware lockout.

Thanks

[NomadTech]

I installed it but no luck yet booting from SSD. I cloned it with Acronis but it doesn't start. On startup I get INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE and upon restart error 0xc0000001.

HP tech support on phone or chat is useless.

Would really appreciate help in solving this.

[Bizon]

I also was not able to make ssd bootable. 

The only way is to put bootloader on hdd and system on ssd. 

looking good. 

[NomadTech]

Thank you for the answer. 

I know about this option, but manual says it can work with SSD only, which means somehow it can be made bootable.

I'll be fiddling with it tomorrow.

[javal123]

Do you think it is an Acronis fail? or is it not even possible for the HP machine to recognize the NVMe as a drive?

In other words, if you think it would have worked as a additional hard drive (non-bootable), then it is an Acronis fail.

[NomadTech]

Don't know whose fault it is, but I got it working. With both disks inside laptop I started an admin command prompt and used diskpart command. List vol showed all 4 volumes. Used select volume 2 then assign letter S. Volume 2 was UEFI, the only one with fat32 type. Type exit to get out of diskpart. To copy bootloader to EFI partition type Bcdboot c:\Windows /s S: and press enter. Then type exit again. Upon reboot I got the error again, laptop restarted and gave me an option to select startup type. Selected Safe Mode and it did work. Upon startup completion I restarted laptop and everything works.

[javal123]

Thanks for the feedback and especially for the instructions. All seems complex now..but I believe that once I have the computer in front of me I might be able to follow it. Will order 15-as133cl next week.

[Bill-NM]

Javal,

Were you able to get the SSD set up and working as the boot drive?

Thanks...

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Bill