HP Pavilion - 15-cs0053cl m.2 boot

[Yogibear2019]

I’ve Just bout the HP Pavilion - 15-cs0053cl  from Costco.  I’ve installed a wd blue m.2 500GB but I can’t get it to boot for it. It always defaults to the 1TB HD.  I looked in the bios, but the m.2 did not show up for boot order.  I tried to wipe the HD thinking the system would be forced to boot from the m.2 no dice. 

Any ideas?  It. I SOL?  Thanks 

[iomare]

Hi,

When you say you installed an M2 drive. What method did you use to install the OS on the SSD? Did you migrate an image, did you perform a clean install?

Let me know,

David

[Yogibear2019]

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@iomare wrote:

Hi,

When you say you installed an M2 drive. What method did you use to install the OS on the SSD? Did you migrate an image, did you perform a clean install?

Let me know,

David

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Hi David, thanks for replying.  I actually clones the original HD to the m.2 then wiped the HD based on some of the methods outlined on these forums.  (followed the instructions from This post)

Here is the funny thing, when I go into the boot menu when the laptop starts, I see the M.2 listed there and can boot from it.  However, if I just let the laptop to boot on it's own(without going into the boot menu), it can't find the OS and seems to go into the recovery options.  The only thing I didn't do was physically remove the HD.  I'm trying to leave that as the last resort. 

[Mr_Cee24]

I had similar issues with the hp pavilion x360 - 15-br158cl which i upgraded to 500gb Crucial M.2 ssd.

**I cloned the original hdd (1 TB).  When I did that the Recovery partition wouldn't pop up on the new hdd.  So I went with creating the recovery disk via USB so that I can have that handy.

**After cloning, the default (1TB HDD) would only start when computer rebooted.  Went through bios, tried to set the M.2 as default, but it would always go back to the 1TB Hdd.

**Opened up laptop and disconnected 1TB Hdd cable from motherboard and laptop would not boot to OS on M.2.  It appeared as though the clone wasn't successful or the disk didn't properly initialize as the primary.

**Popped in Recovery Image USB and reinstalled factory image onto M.2 SSD drive.  Setup Windows and all went well.

**Reconnected 1TB Hdd to the motherboard and used DISKPART to remove the partitions from it and then wiped the drive clean with Disk Management.

All good now

Hope some parts of this jargon helps...

[Yogibear2019]

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@Mr_Cee24 wrote:

I had similar issues with the hp pavilion x360 - 15-br158cl which i upgraded to 500gb Crucial M.2 ssd.

**I cloned the original hdd (1 TB).  When I did that the Recovery partition wouldn't pop up on the new hdd.  So I went with creating the recovery disk via USB so that I can have that handy.

**After cloning, the default (1TB HDD) would only start when computer rebooted.  Went through bios, tried to set the M.2 as default, but it would always go back to the 1TB Hdd.

**Opened up laptop and disconnected 1TB Hdd cable from motherboard and laptop would not boot to OS on M.2.  It appeared as though the clone wasn't successful or the disk didn't properly initialize as the primary.

**Popped in Recovery Image USB and reinstalled factory image onto M.2 SSD drive.  Setup Windows and all went well.

**Reconnected 1TB Hdd to the motherboard and used DISKPART to remove the partitions from it and then wiped the drive clean with Disk Management.

All good now

Hope some parts of this jargon helps...

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Thank you for this.  I was reading up on the recovery disk from other posts here.  I was looking at how to get the recovery disks thinking this was preinstaled, but I found out that as of 2018, this option is no longer available for us (HP PCs - Performing a System Recovery (Windows 10).  what year did you get your laptop?

[Mr_Cee24]

I bought mine from Microcenter (www.microcenter.com) last week. It was a refurbrished item.