HP Pavilion Gamer 16 a NVMe SSD OMEN upgrade

[richrfl]

I have this unit with was supplied with a 500GB HP OMEN NVMe, I need to upgrade it to 1TB. I realized that the unit has some pins under the SSD, corresponding to some contacts in the SSD, which makes this not compatible with regular NVMe SSD's. Therefore, the question is which is the replacement part for this SSD?

[erico]

The laptop is compatible with standard NVME, PCIE M.2 SSD products.

[richrfl]

No, is not. I replaced it with WD_Black SN 779 NVMe SSD, Gen4 PCIe, and I got a message from the Boot "inaccessible boot device".  Then, I noticed pins under the SSD position and pads on the HP OMEN SSD manufacturer installed. Therefore, I guess that those pins are intentionally there to make the SSD not compatible with standard SSD's. It would help if you have any access to HP, to pass the issue to them and see how they respond. 

However, if I am wrong, then, what I am doing wrong, because the cloning process was indicated as successful.

[banhien]

@richrfl 

Its specs

           https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06659931

It has 512 GB Intel® SSD (I don't know why you called it as HP Omen SSD). The 512 GB Intel® SSD has built-in Optane. As @erico  said it is compatible with all standard M.2 NVMe SSD's. If you wish, you can pay more to get

              Intel® Optane™ Memory H20 with Solid State Storage 

Regards.

[richrfl]

My apologies. The SSD is actually an OMEN from Intel, as you indicated. However, I tried a replacement as indicated by Erico and yourself and then my question is why I am having a a message like the laptop does not have a Boot disk?

I will appreciate any help on this issue.

[richrfl · Accepted solution]

I found out I have to review the BIOS Boot and the UEFI. Once done, the PC entered the OS without problems. Thank you for your help, guys.