HP dv6t-6c00 CTO Upgrade ssd

[Comsult]

My notebook has a 128gb ssd as a boot drive and a 1TB hard drive. I would like to upgrade my ssd to 500 GB or 1TB. Will the bios support a larger capacity SSD?

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Yes there is no capacity limit in the BIOS. I have seen 4 TB 2.5 inch SATA SSDs and you could use one of those. 

[Comsult]

Perfect. Thanks!

[Comsult]

For clarity, I am not planning on replacing my hard drive with a SSD, but rather wanting to migrate my 128 GB drive c (SSD) to a 500 GB SSD.  I purchased a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 500 GB SSD and have been trying to clone the existing 128 GB drive. I have, I believe successfully cloned the SSD,  but it doesn’t appear that the laptop is recognizing the new SSD. Any thoughts?

[Huffer]

You did not ask about that. Where in the world are you putting the NVME M.2 disk? A dv6 has no M.2 slot. 

[Comsult]

Sorry for my lack of clarity. My laptop has a 128 GB SSD as a main drive paired with a 1 TB hard drive as a secondary drive.  Given the size of the various programs I use, and the operating system defaults to the C: drive for applications and ancillary material, my 128GB is nearly full, despite my efforts to redirect application installs to my 1TB hard drive.  So I would like to replace my existing 128 GB main SSD drive with a larger one. Checking on the SSD chip to use, I understood a M.2 would work - hence my purchase of the 500 GB Samsung. 

[Comsult]

Correction - the C: drive is a 160 GB SSD.

[Huffer]

Do you have an optical bay adapter in it? How do you have 2 hard drives? Are you sure you have the model number right?

[Comsult]

I have a hard drive bay and a slot for the SSD.  See the attached photo. The hard drive is in blue (top right) and the SSD is the green rectangle to the right of the two

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@Huffer wrote:

Do you have an optical bay adapter in it? How do you have 2 hard drives? Are you sure you have the model number right?

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RAM slots.

[Huffer]

That is not a DV6 it is a 15t-bc000; many years' newer model. Advice given here tends to be model specific so I cannot give competent advice without knowing what hardware we are dealing with. That model CAN take an NVME/PCIe M.2 disk in the slot to the left of the battery. Glad we got this figured out. I will say that usually M.2 disks are inserted label up. Is the disk in the picture the original 128 gig M.2 or the 500 gig Samsung 970 Evo?