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HP Pavilion - 17-ab402ng
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I want to upgrade from my 128 SATA m.2 SSD(B&M KEY) (wich contains my os partition) to a 1TB NVME m.2 Kingston Fury Renegade SSD (m key) (i know it will run at only pcie 3.0 speeds)

From the "Maintenance and Service Guide" document i see that the Pavilion 17 supports both M.2 SATA or  M2 PCIe 3x4SS NVMe TLC (M KEY) , on page 44, so i suppose that this new drive is compatible, confirmed. My laptop is the Shadow Black i7 8750h model

 

My plan is to install the new 1TB Kingston Fury Renegade in the laptop, connect the original 128gb via an USB enclosure , boot from an Acronis True Image bootable USB (since i have a key from the kingston purchase) and then clone.

 

I have a few questions:

1.Will this work? do i have to change something in my BIOS ( partially locked) or install NVME drivers beforehand ? Currently i have:

Intel Chipset SATA/PCIE RST Premium Controller

Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller

2. will the new nvme "steal" any PCIE lanes from my  dedicated Nvidia GTX 1050 4GB ? nvidia control pannel says Bus PCI Express x8 Gen3

3.A few months ago i noticed the Software and Drivers page for my model (and for many other Pavilion 17-ab versions) has no drivers in the list. Is there a way we could get them back, or at least an archive of them ? nothing beats manually installing them, if troubleshooting is needed,instead of windows update trying to fix it. 

 

 Windows reinstall is not an option and Any other tips are more than welcome;

i am currently using Windows 10 Home OEM (all update to day) transformed to a digital licence  but i still use a local account

 

 

 

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Usually cloning works by  connecting the target SSD to an external USB enclosure, booting to Windows and the using cloning software to clone the OS from the installed storage device  to the target device.

 

You do not have to make any changes in the BIOS.

 

Once the cloning is complete, log out of Windows and shut down the PC.

 

Remove the originally installed storage device and install the M.2 SSD.

 

You should now be able to boot to Windows on your newly installed PCIe M.2 SSD.

 

You do not need to install any drivers in Windows for the PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD.

 

Windows will take care of that for you.

 

" will the new nvme "steal" any PCIE lanes from my dedicated Nvidia GTX 1050 4GB "  No.

 

Where are the drivers? The drivers are still there. See the hyperlink link below.

It isn't a bad idea to download all of the relevant Windows 10 drivers to an external USB flash drive.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/hp-pavilion-17-ab400-notebook-pc-series/20284030

 

 

 



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