Does my laptop has NVME M.2 connection for SSD drive?

[viabella]

Hello, I have 2 HP laptops with 1TB hard drive each. Model numbers are:

HP ENVY x360 15m-bp112dx
HP ENVY x360 15t-bp100 CTO

Basically, my plan is to connect the new drives, clone the existing ones and then remove the existing hard drives so I want to add/replace the 1TB hard drives to NVME M.2 SSD Drives and I do have a few questions:

1. It's hard to understand from the manuals if there is the capability to do that. Are those 2 models have an option to connect those drives?

2. I saw there are 2 versions for M.2. There is M2 and M2 2280. Will both fit those laptops?

3. If I am changing the internal hard drive to the new NVME, Will I be able to reinstall windows 10, or will I have to buy a new license? Both laptops came with the OS pre-installed so I don't have any product keys.

4. If one or the 2 models don't have NVME connection, will I be able to add SATA SSD as an additional drive? Does it have the capability for 2 SATA drives?

Thank you for your help!

[banhien]

@viabella 

Both machines are from a same series. They support dual storage with M.2 SATA/NVMe SSD + 2.5" HDD/SSD.

A1. Yes,

A2.  Yes, they come from same series

A3.  Yes, no need to buy new Windows License because the key is embedded in BIOS of your machine

A4.  They support 2 drives at the same time, using one M.2 format and one 2.5" format.

Regards.

[Huffer]

15m-bp112dx is compatible with M.2 NVME. 2280 is the size of the module. 22mm wide and 80mm long and almost all M.2 SSDs currently on the market are that size. Older shorter models are still M.2, which refers to the interface; i.e. how it plugs into the motherboard. 

15m-bp1xxx service manual 

M.2 circled in red

I suggest a Samsung 970 Evo Plus as the M.2 NVME you want to use. Windows 10 license is embedded in a chip on the motherboard and if you reinstall it will just activate as if by magic. 

All the same observations apply to the other laptop. The Service Manuals are virtually identical and the internal layout is the same. You can leave the original hard drives in as additional storage, by the way. Just format them so there are not 2 bootable disks in the machine. Take out the hard drive while installing Windows to the M.2 and put it back in when you have everything working as needed. 

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

[viabella]

Thanks for your answer.

For the cloning part- if I am connecting both drives- 1 TB SATA + 250GB NVME. Will I be able to clone the 1T to the 250GB (assuming there will be only 200GB of data in the 1TB drive)?

Can you recommend software for doing the cloning without any issues?

[viabella]

Thanks for your answer.

For the cloning part- if I am connecting both drives- 1 TB SATA + 250GB NVME. Will I be able to clone the 1T to the 250GB (assuming there will be only 200GB of data in the 1TB drive)?

Can you recommend software for doing the cloning without any issues?

[Huffer]

Macrium Reflect Free is good software for cloning. Dropping a 1 TB down to a 250 gig requires some special steps. You have to be sure the smaller system partitions remain the same size...make all the shrinkage happen in what is the be the C: drive partition. Macrium lets you do that in an easy graphical interface.