Hard Drive Failure

[Antonioli]

Hi, I've had a "Hard Drive Short DST check: Failed"
ID MCWDU3-8829LV-GXGK7G-60WQ03

As I understand it my Hard Drive has failed, how can I tell if this is the SSD hard drive or the regular one?

Laptop booted once and then following a restart will not do so any more.
Do I have any options left to save it?
If not, can I replace both hard drives with one larger SSD and get it back to life?

Can't really afford a new laptop right now so hoping someone can suggest the best way forward.
TIA

[erico]

That is indeed a hard drive failure.

How do you happen to know there is an SSD inside?

The hard disk that failed would be the one that is your boot disk.

You can install a 2.5" 3D NAND SATA  notebook SSD in place of the legacy spinner disk.

.A 2TB SSD would work fine.

According to the service guide,

Solid-state drive: Support for a 256-MB, M2.2280, PCIe 3×4SS, NVMe, solid-state drive supporting
triple-level cell (TLC) (only on computer models equipped with an AMD A9-9410 processor)

The HP Maintenance & Service guide has some conflicting information. You will need to open the base of your notebook and verify that there is an M.2 SSD installed. If there is one installed, you should be able to upgrade it to a larger version and install the OS to it.

[Antonioli]

Hi Erico,

Thanks for getting back to me. 

I remember when I purchased it that it had a SSD (128Gb I think??) and that it was much quicker compared to the old laptop.

This one does have an AMD A9 also.

I think I will indeed purchase the larger SSD and swap it out.

Cheers

**update**

It has a samsung MZNTY128HDHP and a HGST HTS721010A9E630 

[erico]

That is a Samsung M.2 3-D Nand NVME SSD.

It would definitely be a a nice upgrade if you replaced it with 1 or 2 TB capacity version.