HP DV7-2260ED add SDD and make it the boot-disk

[PaulVDB]

DV7-2260ED upgrade HDD to SDD

Notebook (AMD, Win10 Home-64bit) has two docks for HDD's. Dock 1 is the original HDD 500GB. I want add a 500GB SSD and make it the boot-disk and give the original HDD a place in dock 2.

I did this with my DV7-3160ED at the time there was Win7-64bit. This did not work with "cloning" the HDD and give the SDD a place in dock 1. I did manage to make it work after a fresh install of Win7 from the rescue-discs of 2010.

Is it with the actual configuration possible to clone the 500GB HDD tot the 500GB SDD and give the SDD the place in dock 1 ? This would be the "normal action" when the HDD will crash.

With kind regards,

Paul

[Huffer]

The answer is it should work with the dv7-2000 series as well as it did with the dv7-3000 series. Did you run a diagnostic on the original 500 gig HDD? If it has errors a clone will likely not succeed. 

Let's go over what you have done so far. Do you have caddies, cables to fit a drive in each port? Where did you get the hardware for the second bay? You say you are using a 500 gig SSD? What brand? What cloning method are you using and what software program? 

[PaulVDB]

I did order the internal cable-set at newmodeUS. I asked advice, they adviced me to go for the CD/DVD caddy option if I want the SSD being the boot-device.

I want to order a SATA-USB(3.0)cable and a Crucial MX500 500GB SSD (Acronis software included) at crucial.

My brother (it is his notebook) has Windows10 Home 64-bit and he is not in for a total fresh install.Begin 2015 with my notewook I had problems for getting a "legitimate" Win7 when upgrading my notebook. HP said go to Microsoft, Microsoft said go to HP. In the end a "phone call" to Microsoft did it. But only with a total fresh install, cloning did not do the job.

So I have planned:

* backup HDD

* make a USB-version and a DVD-version with MS MediaCreationTool with the option to use "You need to reinstall Windows 10 on a PC you’ve already successfully activated Windows 10Windows"

* clone the HDD to the SDD with Acronis and the SATA-USB-cable (disk's same size, it should work)

* remove the HDD from slot1

* install the SSD in slot1 and being the primairy boot-disk (in the BIOS there is no option for choosing the second HDU)

* test if it is functional

* install the HDD in slot 2; using as data-disk

I am aware that did is not optimal for the working of the SSD, but it is the option my brother "wants"

But ....

* will this work for the Windows10 Home 64-bit (free upgrade from HP's OEM Win7-64 bit) that is now on the notebook

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

That is actually the exact way to do it except if you are going to do the clone you do not need to also do a clean install of Windows 10 from the Media Creation Tool. The clone will work fine with Windows 10...the activation will not be affected by cloning the installation to an SSD.