HP 255 G5 laptop will not detect new hard drive. HP 255 G5 - E2 7110 - 8 GB RAM - 128 GB 80mm SSD

[Wormy05]

A neighbor of mine asked me about upgrading his laptops hard drive. So took the cover off to find a 80mm SSD hard in it (don't have alot of expereince with this type of hard drive). He currently had a 128 GB SSD (80 mm) and wanted a 1 TB hard drive instead. So went on ebay found what I thought would work a 1 TB SSD 80 mm hard drive and attempted to load windwos 10 on the hard drive but the hard drive is not being detected by the laptop. I put the current hard drive in and the laptop boots just fine. Can anyone help me understand if this 1 TB drive will work or not work with this model? Also what options do I have? How big of Hard drive can I go here? Does the system board or processor not support this big of drive? I'm really confused why the laptop isn't seeing this new drive but boots fine on the current 128 Hard drive. I even tried going into the built in diagnostics on the laptop to do a hard drive test but it doesn't find one to even test using the new hard drive.

 See below the hard drives and specs. Thank you in advance for the help.

Current Hard Drive - MZNTY128HDHP-00000 MZ-NTY1280 OEM ASUS SSD 128GB GL702V GL702VM-BHI7N09 (CA24) %MCEPASTEBIN%

New Hard Drive - Intel SSD SSDPEKNW010T8X1 660p M.2 80mm 1TB pci-e 3.0x4 3D2 QLC Single Pack %MCEPASTEBIN%

Here is the laptop model [edit]

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The new Intel M2 SSD is not working because it is a PCIe NVMe SSD and the notebook only supports M2 SATA3 SSD. So what you need is a M2 SATA3 SSD such as the M2 Samsung 860 Evo or similar of your desired capacity (no limit).

Example:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-860-SATA-Internal-MZ-N6E1T0BW/dp/B07822Z77M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=15...

Hope it helps,

David

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[Wormy05]

LOMARE! Thank you for the example and info. Good to know! I'll order one of them up and return what i just got! Appreciate your quick response...very very helpful!!!

[iomare]

You're welcome.

Let me know if you need any further help.

All the best,

David