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09-20-2017 02:43 PM - last edited on 09-20-2017 02:50 PM by danny-r
Model: Pav Game 15-ak020nr
HP Pavilion Gaming Notebook
Product Nbr: N9E46UA#ABA
Born Date: 04/05/2016
System Board ID: 816B
System Board CT Nbr: PFMMD038J150PW
BIOS Ver: F.84
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
There is a 'SSD' plug on the circuit board (one notch).
I want to leave the HHD 1Tb Drive in the laptop.
I want to plug in a SSD 250Gb Drive and make it a 'C' Drive
I tried a Panasonic SSD 960 EVO NVME M.2 (one notch) and the Disk Mgr would not recognize it. (Best Buy: recommended and they took it back.)
Do I need to update the BIOS to RevA for the SSD 960 EVO to work? Text with BIOS update does not mention SSD. Just did the BIOS update.
Various internet sites point to a SSD with 2 notches as compatible. Clearly wrong, board plug has one notch.
I need a list of compatible Drives
And the process to make it a C:/ drive. (Partition for win10 recovery?)
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09-20-2017 03:13 PM - edited 09-20-2017 03:14 PM
Hold on there....you are jumping to conclusions. All M.2 slots have two chambers and one notch. As you have figured out, M.2 disks come in the one notch and two notch variety:
Both these kind of M.2 disks are installed into the same type of slot. The keys inside the slot understand that the leads on the one-notch type might be missing for the two-notch type.
Your laptop can only accept SATA M.2 disks which are almost all the two slot kind as on the left. A 960 Evo was never going to work but I am not surprised Best Buy thought it would.
The list of all compatible disks would be long. I suspect Best Buy had one of the right ones in the store and could have sold you that, instead.
Like this:
As far as making it the C:\ drive when you get it installed move it to the top of the boot order in the BIOS. You are going to need to install software on it. How much stuff is on your existing 1 TB drive? If less than say 150 gigs you could try cloning. We can walk you through that if interested. Also you can use HP recovery manager to make a factory restore thumb drive and run that on the M.2 to make the system factory new. I would remove the boot sector files from the hard drive and just go on using it with your data on it. You will not be able to access any applications you have added. Would have to reinstall onto the M.2.
Give us a little more idea what you have and where you want to wind up and we can get you there. Do you have a Service manual? HP makes this one real hard to find.
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09-20-2017 03:13 PM - edited 09-20-2017 03:14 PM
Hold on there....you are jumping to conclusions. All M.2 slots have two chambers and one notch. As you have figured out, M.2 disks come in the one notch and two notch variety:
Both these kind of M.2 disks are installed into the same type of slot. The keys inside the slot understand that the leads on the one-notch type might be missing for the two-notch type.
Your laptop can only accept SATA M.2 disks which are almost all the two slot kind as on the left. A 960 Evo was never going to work but I am not surprised Best Buy thought it would.
The list of all compatible disks would be long. I suspect Best Buy had one of the right ones in the store and could have sold you that, instead.
Like this:
As far as making it the C:\ drive when you get it installed move it to the top of the boot order in the BIOS. You are going to need to install software on it. How much stuff is on your existing 1 TB drive? If less than say 150 gigs you could try cloning. We can walk you through that if interested. Also you can use HP recovery manager to make a factory restore thumb drive and run that on the M.2 to make the system factory new. I would remove the boot sector files from the hard drive and just go on using it with your data on it. You will not be able to access any applications you have added. Would have to reinstall onto the M.2.
Give us a little more idea what you have and where you want to wind up and we can get you there. Do you have a Service manual? HP makes this one real hard to find.
If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it.
09-25-2017 01:10 PM
Got the SSD Drive. Installed it.
See it in DiskMgr: Made it active. Formatted it. See it as Dive0. Existing 1T HHD is Drive1.
Windows boots up normally.
Made a windows recovery USB. Took 21GB in a 128GB Thumb Drive.
Great so far.
Went to boot settings and tried to change the boot drive from Disk1 (1T HHD) to Disk0 (250GB SSD)
There is no option to set it to Disk0. Only the Disk1 (1T HHD) is showing as an option.
I must have missed something? Need help..
Thanks, Hank
09-25-2017 01:26 PM
I always remove the old hard drive when I am setting up the SSD just to prevent this. Put just the SSD in. You should not have needed to "set" the drive identification of the SSD nor should you have needed to make it "active". Just let the recovery disk handle the SSD. Again, take out the old hard drive and perform the recovery with just the SSD in the computer.
09-25-2017 03:50 PM
Removed the HHD.
Rebooted with the USB Recovery plugged in (Itried all 3 ports)
I get a screen "Boot device not found"
BIOS settings were no help.
I went thru the doc's and websites and am stumped again.
Thanks for your help.
Hank
09-25-2017 04:17 PM
The laptop will not boot from the USB.
Could be that the recovery process to make the recovery files on the USB did not make it bootable.?
Could be a seprate process.?
will search for answer.
Hank
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09-25-2017 07:56 PM
The message at the start of RECOVERY to an USB that all files will be deleted is not true. the Boot files are not touched.
Putting in the Boot files on an USB however does delete everything.
So after doing everything twice, once in the correct order, it workes.
Thanks to Huffer, who made this possible
Hank
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