HP 245 G7 Notebook SSD upgrade

[GuidoMilitello]

I have recently bought a HP 245 G7 Notebook with a HDD 1TB Disk, and I want to install second SSD Disk Kingston SA400M8/120G that I bought recently. 

I want to know if the mainboard connector is compatible with this disk (disk looks like 3 pins) and if I open the case to install the disk I lose the guaranty already in place. 

Best Regards.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

This is a peer to peer forum. 

We don't work for or represent HP, so we cannot provide official advice regarding the warranty terms.

Generally you will not void the warranty when performing upgrades unless you break something in the process.

I don't quite understand what you want to do...there is no second connector for a 2.5" drive.

You can install a SATA or NVME M.2 SSD in the available M.2 slot.

Below is the link to the service manual, which should help you take apart the notebook without having to guess what to do.

h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06219878.pdf

[GuidoMilitello]

Thanks, I want to know if that M.2 slot supports the Kingston drive I mentioned in my post.

Regards.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, it should work just fine.

[GuidoMilitello]

Thanks, I confirmed with the attached document, very helpful. One last thing, how can I preserve the actual partitions in the current drive to the new ssd drive? I don't want to loose original recovery partition and Windows version and product key that came with original HP installation. Just simple disk clone tool will work out?

Regards.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome. 

I believe that it will be difficult to clone a 1 TB image onto a 1 GB SSD. 

I don't know how it could be done. 

[GuidoMilitello]

Never mind. I'll clone only partitions from one disk to another, one of them will be the recovery partition.

Regards.

[GuidoMilitello]

Hello, i know that I've marked this topic solved but i have other problem now, my ssd disk is working and now I cloned the hdd disk to the ssd and everything goes well, but i cannot select the ssd from BIOS menu to boot from it, it's only shows the hdd option.

Any help or ideas?

Regards

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Notebooks that come with dual drive configurations have no operating system on the 2.5" drive.

If you still have the operating system on the 2.5" drive, the notebook will always want to boot from that first.

Temporarily disconnect the 2.5" drive and make sure the notebook boots from the M.2 SSD.

If it does, connect the hard drive back up and format it to have one empty drive for storage.