Add SSD to HP Laptop 14-fq0040nr

[Nicholas-D]

I recently purchased a new HP Laptop 14-fq0040nr. It is very limited, so I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB. That worked just fine. I  have also inserted a Crucial 512 GB M.2 SSD to augment the barebones  64GB eMMC. The laptop will not recognize the SSD. It worked fine in my SSD enclosure using USB C.

Is this model intentionally crippled? Is there a hardware "jumper" or toggle of some sort on the board blocking the SSD? Should I give up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[banhien]

@Nicholas-D 

Its specs

            https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06956745

Manual:   http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06642370.pdf

Your machine ONLY has  64 GB eMMC (embedded MultiMediaCard) for storage and does NOT support dual storage therefore you can NOT add nor replace its storage. It only has AMD 3020e (1.2 GHz base clock, up to 2.6 GHz max boost clock, 4 MB L3 cache, 2 cores) processor (please check page 2 of the manual).

Regards.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, @Nicholas-D 

Yes, the 14-fq0xxx model series M.2 slot does support a SSD, but it must be a SATA one, not NVMe in the notebooks with the 64 GB eMMC flash drives.

If you want a 500 GB drive this one should work fine.

amazon.com/Western-Digital-500GB-SA510-Internal/dp/B09ZYQG5C1/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2G7VBQYBE5HRB&keywords...

The service manual does not make that distinction.

Here's a related discussion and you can find several more if you care to search the forum.

Solved: Question re HP 14-fq0045nr - HP Support Community - 8376107

[Nicholas-D]

Ah. I do see in the service/maintenance manual the SATA  distinction. I just followed Crucial's advice, which apparently applied to a different version of the HP.

I'll give it a shot. This notebook is not my main device - and I do use MS One Drive - but the 64 gb on board is almost filled up. Thank you.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.