M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Upgrade

[CyberTracker]

HI Guys,

I need to know if I can install latest M.2 PCIe NVME SSD in my HP i7 8th Gen Laptop. it has no SSD but a HDD and very slow?

Also, do I need to upgrade my BIOS firmware to support the M.2 SSD?

It has a PCIe Slot marked as M2X3 as follows:Slot M2X£

[Huffer]

Here's the Service Manual:

Manual 

The M.2 slot is only compatible with SATA M.2 SSD 2280 form factor, not NVME. Such as this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Blue-NAND-Internal-SATA/dp/B073SB2MXT/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=M.2+S...

You will still experience a very significant performance upgrade by switching the OS to a SATA M.2 SSD. 

There is no BIOS upgrade that will make the laptop accept an NVME M.2 SSD, to anticipate your question. 

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if this is the info you needed. 

[CyberTracker]

Thank you for your reply.  I ordered the WD Blue SATA SSD M.2. It arrived today. I installed it on board. I  made partition using Disk Managment and cloned it with the Acronis Software. Acronis format the drive and cloned successfully. It was showing new SSD as E Drive. While the C Drive was existing HDD.

I changed the Boot Sequence in BIOS to SSD. To my surprise the M.S SSD did not boot at all. instead a blank screen with a movable mouse pointer keep on appearing. I changed various settings in Boot Sequence but nothing happened. I unplugged the HDD to avoid conflict and run SSD stand alone. However, same result. 

Am I making a mistake in Disk Partition as in any case the SSD loads, shows blank screen with a mouse pointer and blue cursor circle moving. It looked as the SSD was working in background but nothing on screen with mouse.

Does anyone know what the issue is? Please Help or my £55 M.S SATA SSD as waste!!!!

[Huffer]

try a clean install of Windows onto the SSD with the HDD removed just to see if the system is able to boot from it under any circumstances.