SSD PCIe boot on Pavilion 15-bc201nl

[AM_30]

Hi,

I have a laptop pavilion 15-bc201nl and I would like to know if once installed an M.2 Pcie SSD on the internal slot available, I can transfer the operating system from HDD to SSD and boot from the latter, keeping the HDD only for big file storage. Indeed, it would not be worth adding a PCIe SSD if it is not possible to boot from there and in that case it may be more convenient to completely replace the HDD with a 2.5" SATA SSD.

Thanks.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

Yes your plan is the correct one. See page 35 of the Manual here:

Manual

You can see the location of the M.2 disk just to the left of the battery. 

You can use bootable cloning software to copy the contents of the existing hard drive to the new blank M.2 PCIe disk or you can make a Windows system image backup and use that to install Windows 10 onto the new disk. Many ways to do this. 

Post back with further questions.