Is it possible to upgrade this?

[PaulNeb86]

The post-update report, written on the upgraded laptop.

Item 0. The prep work. I used Clonzilla to copy the 128MB NVME to the 1TB NVME. When I checked it post-copy, WIndows complained that the two drives has the same signature. I would call that a successful copy.

Item One. The rubber strips on the bottom of the case. These are two different thickness. The "front" one, which is thinner, separated from its backing plastic while being removed. Because of that, it stretched and wasn't usable after I finished. Minor goof was that I bought gray rubber strips. I'll live. It adds character.

Item 2. The disassembly went without incident, although the keyboard/main board is a tray that sits inside of the bottom case. It was more challenging to get the bottom off than I expected, but not by much.

Item 3. While the battery didn't obstruct access to any of the components being upgraded, I still removed it from the laptop to be sure there was no power to the main board.

item 4. The RAM came out and went in easy as pie. The only comment is that the two sticks are differing sides up. One goes in right side up, the other goes in upside down. I'm a tech. Not an issue.

Item 5. The NVME module. The original 128MB module is very short and mounted to a bracket. I removed the bracket and the 1TB NVME went in using the mounting screw from the old bracket. Easy-peasy.

Item 6. The new Wi-Fi 6 module. Here's where the challenge came. The original Wi-Fi card only had one antenna port, and I did not see any stray wire for a second (unused) antenna. I connected the single antenna wire to the same port on the new card and didn't sweat the second antenna wire. I don't know if the second antenna is for a different band or just a second antenna location.

Item 7. Initial power-up. The laptop complained about the CMOS checksum and switching the boot mode. I had switched the boot more to not secure for Clonezilla. I later found out it hadn't been necessary. After that, the laptop booted Windows normally off the new drive.

Item 8. Initial login to WIndows. Two thinks of note. The first was that my Windows was no longer activated. That was quickly resolved. The second was that while the Wi-Fi card detected the presence of a Wi-Fi 6 network, checking the Network settings only displays a 5MHz connection. I don't know if this is because of the lack of a second antenna, Windows just not telling me the information, or a setting that I need to change for the NIC.

Item 9. Adjusting the partitioning. Since I cloned a 128MB NVME to a 1TB one, there was like 910MB of unallocated space. A quick download of Gparted, rebooting, moving the recovery partition to the top of the drive and expanding the C: drive took care of that.

If anyone has comments or insights, I'll be happy to listen. Otherwise, the job is done, and thanks to everyone for their help and advice!  

[NonSequitur777]

@PaulNeb86,

Outstanding job, well done!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777