A few questions about my devices upgrade capabilities.

[mirri]

Hello.

I own a hp notebook 15-dy1032wm; Due to the lack of hard drive capacity (256 GB) I want to replace the current hard drive with an NVMe 2TB hard drive and also upgrade it's RAM by adding another 16GB DDR4 memory so I would like to ask you a few questions about it.

1- Is this device capable of getting these upgrades?

2- I have an original manufacturer windows 10 home version installed on the current hard drive, is there a way to reactivate my original legal windows after replacing the new hard drive? (I don't care about the data loss on the current hard drive)

I really do appreciate anyone who gives help.    Thank you:)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

HP only has the service manual for the older 15-dy0xxx model series on your notebook's support page.

HP 15-dy1000 Laptop PC series - Setup and User Guides | HP® Support

According to chapter 1 of the service manual, they offered NVMe SSD's up to 512 GB in the model series and the manual indicates that 2 x 8 GB of memory is supported.

Unfortunately there is no way to determine exactly how large a capacity NVMe SSD the notebook will support.

Theoretically, as long as the SSD memory chips are on only one side of the NVMe SSD, the sky's the limit.

The Crucial memory/SSD report for your notebook indicates that it will support 2 x 16 GB of DDR4-2666 MHz memory and up to a 4 TB NVMe SSD.

Most folks install DDR4-3200 memory and it will automatically bridge to 2666 MHz.

HP - Compaq HP 15-dy1032wm | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial.com

There is a windows command you can run to confirm how much total memory the PC will support:

1. In the search box, search for cmd and click Run as administrator.

This will open the command prompt.

2. After the command prompt is opened, type wmic memphysical get maxcapacityEx and hit enter.

There, it will show the maximum RAM capacity your PC's motherboard can support.

The capacity is shown as Kilobytes, so you have to convert it to Gigabytes by dividing the number provided in the report by 1,048,576.

You can use the HP cloud recovery tool to reinstall the original HP image that came with your notebook on the new SSD.

Here is an info link for how to use the utility.  You will need a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the recovery media with.

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool in Windows 11 and 10 | HP® Customer Support

You can download the software from the Microsoft Store and make the recovery drive now, so you are ready to go after you replace the drive.

HP Cloud Recovery Tool - Microsoft Apps