Hard drive replacement with SSD

[Pavan9090]

My Laptop has failed Hard Drive Short DST Check and it looks like the HDD is damaged, I want to know that can I replace current HDD with NVME M.2 SSD? And how can I recover the data from damages HDD and also can I recover genuine Windows or not?

Thanks.

[WAWood]

@Pavan9090 

In terms of your questions ...

1) SSD -- no, as the HDD is a SATA drive and you need a SATA SSD with the same connectors to replace it.

2) Recover data -- you would need to remove the drive and connect it to a working PC.  Try to retrieve the files and folders you want to save from the old drive and copy them to the new PC.

If this does not work, then you need to do the following:
a) Download and install this utility on a working PC http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/recover_data_in_3_steps_with_minitool_power_data_recovery_free_...
b) Run the data recovery utility to see what can be retrieved from the old drive.

If that tool does not find what you need, an alternative is Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva

And, if that does not work well, the best tool out there is this one, but only the trial version is free http://www.file-recovery.com/

3) Recover Windows -- NO -- you can not recover it from the failed drive.  You would have to reinstall it onto the new SSD -- and that presents an issue because the HP Recovery function expects a drive of similar capacity to the original.  If you replace that with a much smaller SSD, the recovery function will  most likely fail.