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‎04-01-2021 09:17 AM - edited ‎04-01-2021 09:18 AM

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Product: HP Laptop - 15-ef1027ca
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Good day to all.

In February I bough this laptop from staples and it comes with only a SSD 2.5 500gb. I wish to know if it is possible to add a 2nd SSD inside the laptop say 1 tb and transfer the system from 500 Gb t0 1Tb SSD.

 

Thanks for your coming responses.

 

Outer than that the PC is operating flawlessly. Happy with it.

Daniel

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‎04-01-2021 09:33 AM

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See how well the Maintenance and Service Guide linked to here matches up with your machine:

 

https://support.hp.com/ca-en/product/hp-15-e1000-laptop-pc-series/32612084/model/37747618/manuals

From browsing around the internet, it seems like the ##-LL portion of the model number is the important part for matching up the physical layout inside.

 

Looking at the physical layout in that manual, I don't see a place to put another internal drive. However, your actual computer may be different.

 

More importantly, if there is no additional drive socket on the motherboard, that would be a major obstacle too. On most of the pictures of newer HP laptops, and mine, the 8 pin motherboard socket for the SATA drive is labeled "JHDD"

 

Hope this helps.

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‎04-01-2021 09:33 AM

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See how well the Maintenance and Service Guide linked to here matches up with your machine:

 

https://support.hp.com/ca-en/product/hp-15-e1000-laptop-pc-series/32612084/model/37747618/manuals

From browsing around the internet, it seems like the ##-LL portion of the model number is the important part for matching up the physical layout inside.

 

Looking at the physical layout in that manual, I don't see a place to put another internal drive. However, your actual computer may be different.

 

More importantly, if there is no additional drive socket on the motherboard, that would be a major obstacle too. On most of the pictures of newer HP laptops, and mine, the 8 pin motherboard socket for the SATA drive is labeled "JHDD"

 

Hope this helps.

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‎04-01-2021 10:32 AM

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Well I just want to tell thank you for the info. The only thing left for me is to buy an internal SSD and replace the actual one and transfer the system from one SSD to the other.

 

Daniel

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‎04-01-2021 10:53 AM

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If you get a Western Digital drive, WD has its own cloning software so you don't have to bother with third party drive cloning. You can get an extra cable, or even a whole housing to connect it through USB for the transfer. Then you can put the old drive in there and use it as an external drive.

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‎04-01-2021 12:30 PM

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Does the cloning software is automatically included with the purchase ?

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‎04-01-2021 12:32 PM

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Being french I have no idea what you mean by "whole housing "

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‎04-01-2021 12:57 PM

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An external case for an internal SSD.

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‎04-01-2021 01:00 PM

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The Western Digital cloning software is a free download available to anybody. I am not sure how well it works on anything besides Western Digital drives.

I *think* this is it, but snoop around and see if you find something better.

https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14926

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‎04-01-2021 01:32 PM

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Ok got it now...I was planning to get a casing to sit the original one it

 

Great thanks

 

Daniel

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‎04-01-2021 01:41 PM

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Thanks for the tips but I owned Easus TodoBackup Home edition which I bought. I can clone with it and Easus Partition Manager 15.8 can also do that. They both canrestore from  USB key.

 

I did downloaded the Acronis for Western Digital and will test it out later on

 

Nevertheless Thank you very much for your input...well appreciated.

Daniel

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