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‎06-11-2022 02:20 PM

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Product: HP ENVY x360 15.6 inch 2-in-1 Laptop PC 15-ee1000 (2E2K7AV)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

Kind of new to the IT community. I am looking to upgrade my laptop SSD. Factory came with a 512gb one. I’m looking to put in a 1-2tb one. In regards to the boot drive for the laptop would I need to put windows back on the new SSD or is that stored on something other than the removable SSD that is already in place?

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‎06-11-2022 03:08 PM - edited ‎06-11-2022 04:06 PM

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Windows is on your boot drive - so, it's installed on the 512gb drive that it came with.  2 ways to upgrade.  Yes, you can certainly do a fresh install of Windows on the new drive.  I recently did the same thing (upgrade to a larger drive).  As I liked the set-up I already had, and I wanted to use the 512gb NVMe drive as a portable external drive after, I purchased a NVMe enclosure (I picked up a Sabrent enclosure, not the cheapest, but works flawlessly and is built right), used Macrium 7 Free to clone it, and then swapped out the drives.  Either way works fine, but as I planned on getting an external NVMe enclosure anyway this worked best for my usage.

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‎06-11-2022 03:03 PM

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Brand new HDD'a/ SSD's do not have Windows, you have to install yourself. The quickest way is to clone old drive to larger new drive. You can also rebuild your machine on new drive using HP Cloud Recovery tool

 

            https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06162205

 

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‎06-11-2022 03:08 PM - edited ‎06-11-2022 04:06 PM

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Windows is on your boot drive - so, it's installed on the 512gb drive that it came with.  2 ways to upgrade.  Yes, you can certainly do a fresh install of Windows on the new drive.  I recently did the same thing (upgrade to a larger drive).  As I liked the set-up I already had, and I wanted to use the 512gb NVMe drive as a portable external drive after, I purchased a NVMe enclosure (I picked up a Sabrent enclosure, not the cheapest, but works flawlessly and is built right), used Macrium 7 Free to clone it, and then swapped out the drives.  Either way works fine, but as I planned on getting an external NVMe enclosure anyway this worked best for my usage.

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