HP ProBook 470 G3 (W4P94EA#ACB)

[Damob]

Good afternoon! I bought the ProBook 470 G3 with installed HDD Toshiba 1Tb. I want to install an additional m.2 SSD drive and bought this ADATA Premier SP550 SATA 6Gb / s m.2 2280 SSD 120Gb. The problem is that the BIOS detects and sees the drive, installed Windows 7 sees the drive, but when you try to install the system on the SSD drive, Windows Installer can not see SSD drive. Help please understand!

[Huffer]

Try removing the hard drive while you install onto the M.2. I had to do that with my Zbook 15 G3 and your laptop is pretty similar. Post back with results. 

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[Damob]

To my regret, this does not help! I tried to disable the HDD, in this case, the installer does not see discs! I tried to convert a SSD drive in the MBR and back in GPT, create and format partitions. Nothing helps, the version of Windows 7 I have license. I tried to use all the tips that have been found in the Internet, but they do not help! I even changed the SSD to the new thinking that the defective!

[Huffer]

How do you mean disable the hard drive? I mean physically remove it. 

[Damob]

Yes! I just deleted it, it does not help!

Please forgive me, I'm from Russia, so there may be difficulties of translation.

[Damob · Accepted solution]

Problem solved! Not quite the standard way, but solved! In general, who was faced with the same problem, the solution of the following:
- Install the operating system on a regular HDD
- If you have installed Windows 7, and then want to upgrade to Windows 10, then do it right.
- We set up our drive m.2 in laptop and register it in the system.
- Download and run the program ParagonMigrate-4.0 (This program makes operating system migration to your disk)
- After the program is complete OS migration, we turn off the laptop and take out our HDD.
- Put the boot from the SSD drive, and our HDD format, and delete all partitions.
- Rejoice))

[Huffer]

Glad it is working