HP Pavilion X360 13-U005TU Laptop upgrade HDD to SSD

[GT1234]

Hi All,

My laptop is X360 13-U005TU. Its HDD is very slow. It is 1 TB SATA HDD having Windows 10 installed. I am planning to move to SSD.

Does my laptop have an extra slot for SSD?

Or will i need to remove my HDD and replace it with SSD? 

Also which SSD is compatible with my laptop?

There are different SSD's available in market, like PCIe 4.0 3D NANd NVMe M.2, PCIe 3.0, SATA SSD. Which one is compatible with my laptop?

Will my original Windows be migrated to new SSD?

Thank you.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Below is the link to the service manual for your notebook.

HP Pavilion x360 m3 (model numbers m3-u100 through m3-u199, m13-u100 through m13-u199, m3-u000 throu...

Since it came with a 2.5" mechanical hard drive, it does not have a M.2 slot for a SSD.

If you look at chapter 3 of the manual, you will see that different motherboards are used for the notebooks that come with 2.5" drives and those that come with M.2 SATA SSD's.

So, you would have to replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SSD.

In India, I would look into one of the Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD models which seem to have the best performance for the price in your country.

You can use free cloning software such as Macrium Reflect to clone the OS to the new SSD before you install the new SSD.

You buy a SATA to USB cable.  Plug the cable into your new SSD and you can clone the existing drive image to the new SSD, remove the old drive, install the new SSD, and you should be up and running.

You can also use the HP cloud recovery tool to create a bootable USB recovery drive and reinstall W10 the drivers and the software that originally came with your notebook on the new SSD as well.

Here is an info link for how to use that utility.  You will need a 32 GB USB flash drive for this.

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