How can I upgrade from my HDD to a SSD on my HP Pavilion x360 Convertible?

[BrianYT5]

Please help me, my computer is kinda slow and I'm look forward to upgrading to SSD. Please tell me which SSD should I upgrade to and how I do it.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@BrianYT5 

According to your model's HP spec page, it came with a 1TB SATA laptop drive -- which means you can replace it with a 1TB SATA SSD.  These re generally twice as expensive as HDDs, so you could also go with a 500GB SSD.  All of the major brands work pretty much the same -- SanDisk, Crucial, Kingston.

You would need to "clone" your existing drive to the SSD to keep your PC working.

My suggestion, is if you want to create recovery media for Win10, then consider using a third-party solution known as Macrium Reflect (MR).

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
2) Connect the new drive to the PC using a USB-to-SSD drive adapter (like the one illustrated below)
3) Follow the instructions in this link: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk
4) Shutdown the PC when done
5) Swap the drives and reboot the PC.

NOTE: To do this easily, the SDD has to be the same capacity as the HDD.  IF you get an SDD that is a lot smaller, then before you do the cloning, you have to shrink the largest partition on the HDD (usually the OS partition), to the size such that it, and the other partitions, fit easily on the SSD.

You should boot from the new drive without any problems.

Typical USB-to-SSD adapter:

Good Luck