Hard Drive Replacement

[mamacat105]

 When I ordered this laptop, I had no idea it was going to have two disc drives in it..  It appears my Windows C  HD is only 238.47 GB and I have only 12GB free

on the drive...  I can't upgrade to Windows 11 and I can't add any programs to it or I can't update Windows.. I ran out of space and had to delete many of 

my game programs.     I'm showing the Disc name is  WDC PCSA530 SDASN8Y-256G-1006       I would like to change out this drive with a larger one so I

can add programs, upgrade the Windows and Have free space for a few games I enjoy playing..     What is a recommended disc that will work in this 

Pavilion 15T-CS200    I would like to get one that is at least 512GB  or possibly a 1TB

  Please advise...  

Thanks,   

[erico]

Yes.

You can update it to a higher capacity M.2 PCIe, TLC, SATA-3  SSD

You probably have way too many recovery point  and a large Windows.old directory and that is likely to have filled up the disk.

The second disk is a little (16GB) Optane disk that serves to speed up memory access and nothing else.

Here is a source for higher capacity M.2 SATA3 disks at Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=m.2+sata+ssd&rh=n%3A1292116011%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A23487839011&dc&...