HP Envy SSD upgrade

[Steve767]

Hi.

Would i be able to upgrade the SSD hardrive in my HP Envy 17-cw0009na 4K Laptop from the  512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD fitted to a a new Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Unfortunately, that would not be possible.

Chapter 1 of the service manual indicates that the PC has support for one M.2 NVMe SSD only.

Maintenance and Service Guide (hp.com)

If you need more storage, you will have to replace the 512 GB NVMe SSD with one having a greater storage capacity.

[Steve767]

Thank you for your reply, i would want to remove the 512 Hard drive and replace with a new Samung EVO 2 TB not have both as there is only 1 x slot. would this be ok ? 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

I'm sorry, I confused the Samsung 970 EVO with the 870 QVO 2.5" SATA SSD.

Yes, the 2 TB Samsung 970 drive should work fine.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, again:

I just wanted to let you know that since your notebook has an Intel 13th generation core processor, you have to install the Intel storage controller drivers that are needed for Windows to find the drive on PC's that come with Intel 11th -13th gen core processors.

If you want to clean install Windows, you can use the drivers that I zipped up and attached below.

Copy the 5 files from the F6/VMD/f6vmdflpy-x64 folder to a USB flash drive.

iastorvd.cat

iastorvd.inf

iastorvd.sys

rstmweventlogmsg.dll

rstmwservice.exe

Have the flash drive and your W11 installation media plugged into USB ports.

Boot from the W11 installation flash drive.

When you get to the screen where no drives can be found, click on the Load driver option, browse to the flash drive with the storage controller drivers on it.

If you check the box, it will only include the compatible driver.

Click Next, and Windows should find the drive and install.

An easier method to reinstall Windows on the new drive would be to make a bootable USB recovery drive with the HP cloud recovery tool before you replace the drive.  That should already have the necessary storage controller drivers included.

Here is an info link for how to use the utility.  You will need a 32 GB USB flash drive to create the recovery media with.

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool in Windows 11 and 10 | HP® Customer Support

You can download the software from the Microsoft Store.

HP Cloud Recovery Tool - Microsoft Store Apps