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‎05-12-2021 09:19 PM

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Product: HP Laptop 15-bs1xx
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have HP Laptop 15-bs1xx with 1 tb hdd. I have installed ssd in the slot provided to increase the speed. I want to know how to use the hdd and ssd together, since I want the space of hdd and speed of ssd.

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‎05-13-2021 06:50 AM - edited ‎05-13-2021 06:53 AM

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Temporarily disconnect the hard drive.

 

Install W10 on the SSD and make sure the PC boots from the SSD.

 

Plug the hard drive back in and format it to leave one blank partition.

 

The notebook should boot from the SSD and then you can use the Windows disk management utility to initialize the hard drive and make it active for storage.

 

You can also watch this video...

 

How to Use HP 15 da3002TU Laptop Hard Disk & SSD Drive Together - YouTube

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‎05-13-2021 06:30 AM

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Hi:

 

What kind of M.2 SSD did you install?

 

The notebook only supports SATA M.2 SSD's not NVMe.

 

When you want to use the 2.5" drive as storage, you need to format it so that the drive is completely empty, or the PC will always boot from the 2.5" drive first if there is an operating system installed.

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‎05-13-2021 06:45 AM

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I used WD Green SATA SSD M.2 2280 (240 gb)

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‎05-13-2021 06:47 AM

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What I want is to use the ssd for booting (basically having Windows) and hdd for storage. Can you share the configuration steps for the same.

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‎05-13-2021 06:50 AM - edited ‎05-13-2021 06:53 AM

HP Recommended

Temporarily disconnect the hard drive.

 

Install W10 on the SSD and make sure the PC boots from the SSD.

 

Plug the hard drive back in and format it to leave one blank partition.

 

The notebook should boot from the SSD and then you can use the Windows disk management utility to initialize the hard drive and make it active for storage.

 

You can also watch this video...

 

How to Use HP 15 da3002TU Laptop Hard Disk & SSD Drive Together - YouTube

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