Installing an SSD on a laptop HP Pavilion Power - 15-cb007ur

[EvgeniyBoiko]

Today I was surprised myself. I called the store, they immediately said that there was nothing there! Will be waiting for an answer from Crucial ...

[Paul_Tikkanen]

They are probably hard to get individually.

You probably have to buy 100 of them at a time.

Do you have any small PC repair shops nearby?

Maybe someone there has a screw they can give you from their parts drawers.

Those screws are used in multiple places.

[EvgeniyBoiko]

Let's see, try to search!

[EvgeniyBoiko]

Generally could not stand it, one bolt borrowed from the battery. Installed and it worked! Now everything works and no losses! The only thing is, I can’t unification the two disks. The HDD gives an error and blocks the D disk until it is rebooted, I think maybe this is due to the fact that not all additional disks were deleted when I installed the system !?

[EvgeniyBoiko]

I tried to combine C and D drives through Acronis Disk Director. But it doesn’t work out, can you advise something !? I think maybe everything is reinstalled again, or is it better not to do this?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Is the C:\ drive now your NVMe SSD, and D:\ and E:\ the 2.5" hard drive?

If you just want to use the 2.5" hard drive for storage only, see if you can delete both partitions using the Windows disk management tool, leaving just one partition of unallocated space and then format it.

[EvgeniyBoiko]

I can’t format the HDD on it a lot of the necessary information. And on the disks, it’s like now:

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to help you with that situation.

If I was upgrading a PC, I would have removed the 2.5" hard drive, caddy and connector, and bought the size SSD I needed for storage.

Or, I would have formatted the 2.5" hard drive, then installed the SSD and clean installed W10 on it.

[EvgeniyBoiko]

There is such an idea! Tell me, it will be possible to format on an SSD before a new installation, is it okay !?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

What you could do is to boot from a W10 installation disk and when it asks 'Where do you want to install Windows,' delete all of the partitions on the 2.5" hard drive, leaving just one partion of unallocated space, format the partition and exit out of the installation.

Shut down the PC and you should have a completely blank 2.5" hard drive for storage.