HP Envy 17m-bw0008 Upgrading SSD Problem

[Arsenioo]

Hi all! Im trying to upgrade my hp recovery 16gb ssd to a Crucial p1 1TB NVMe PCIe 2280 M.2 SSD which is compatible with my HP laptop:

• CPU: Intel 8th-generation Core i7-8550U
• Memory: Up to 16GB of DDR4-2400 SDRAM (the base model has 8GB)
• Display: 17.3-inch FHD (1920x1080) IPS WLED backlit touchscreen
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce MX150 with 2GB GDDR5 memory
• Storage: 1TB 7,200rpm hard drive with a 16GB Intel Optane Memory module, plus a DVD drive

I want to leave the factory 1TB hard drive as is and run as second to the new 1tb ssd i would like to install. The computer is a few days old so i dont mind losing the content on the drive. Is there a way to do this without a usb or dvd win10 backup? I installed it physically without doing any cloning/driver downloading (i dont know if it needs it) and it showed me a "BOOT DEVICE NOT FOUND" message at startup. So i enabled legacy booting in bios and it started giving me a different message; "DEVICE NOT COMPATIBLE" and then it asked to perford HD testing which it passed, leading me to a screen where it says "RESET DISKS TO NON RAID" which I did not go forward with. any help? I just want to install the 1TB ssd and boot from it. thank you

[REO51ST]

Welcome to the HP Support Community @Arsenioo

Are you replacing the Optane Memory with the 1TB NVMe SSD???

REO

[Arsenioo]

Yes sir, I would like to.

[REO51ST]

@Arsenioo

There are different ways to Uninstall/Disable Optane.

You may want to also look in your BIOS

Uninstalling the Intel® Optane:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/memory-and-storage/optane-memory/intel-opt...

Start on page 18 but do read the whole article.

REO

[Arsenioo]

Now if when i disable it, how will it know where to boot from? I read somewhere that the recovery files on that optane ssd is what boots up the system. If i get rid of it, where will it boot from then?

thank you.

[Arsenioo]

@REO51ST anyone??