Adding a hard drive to system

[Jcharley]

I have just purchased the hp 14-dq1033cl and im waiting for it to come in.  I'm wanting to know what I need to add an additional hard drive to it.  Ive read some of these cheaper laptops don't come with a cable or caddy? To install them.  Any advice would be much appreciated. 

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

On this particular model there is no place to put an additional hard drive. The only possible storage is a single M.2 "gumstick" SSD. 

Service Manual 

The only storage expansion you can do is add a relatively large capacity micro-SD card or replace the 128 gig M.2 SSD with a larger capacity model. Your 128 gig is a SATA type M.2 and you can swap it out for a much faster PCIe/NVME M.2 SSD. 

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if this is the info you needed. 

[Jcharley]

Well shoot, that's not what I wanted to hear.  I have a nice 500gb ssd just looking for a home lol. However if I upgrade the ssd stick is there a way to clone the smaller 1 to the new larger ssd stick?

[Huffer]

Oh yes many ways to skin that cat or just do it immediately. You can fire it up and use the recovery app to make a usb thumb drive and then just use that to restore the original factory image to the new larger disk.