Suggestion for replacing my slow HDD to a SSD

[Giridhar2]

Hello, I have a hp pavilion ab522tx laptop which I bought back in 2016. it has become very laggy through the course of time. so I am looking to add a 240 GB SSD in addition to HDD. What type of SSD should I buy that matches the specifications of this laptop? Please suggest one and can I keep my HDD while also adding an SSD drive? If so how? 

Guide me through this so that my laptop can be quicker and faster.

My Laptop details are given in the link below. Thanks in advance.

HP Pavilion Notebook - 15-ab522tx Product Specifications

[WAWood]

@Giridhar2 

First off, we are not HP Tech Support, so we do not provide step-by-step instructions on how to make hardware changes.  There are plenty on online videos you can find in YouTube that will walk you through replacing an HDD with an SSD.

As to the drive, the best solution would be to find one the same capacity as your HDD, that way, you can "clone" the HDD to the SSD without any additional work.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
2) Connect the new drive to the PC using a USB-to-SSD drive adapter (like the one illustrated below)
3) Follow the instructions in this link: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk
4) Shutdown the PC when done
5) Swap the drives and reboot the PC.

NOTE: To do this easily, the SDD has to be the same capacity as the HDD.  IF you get an SDD that is a lot smaller, then before you do the cloning, you have to shrink the largest partition on the HDD (usually the OS partition), to the size such that it, and the other partitions, fit easily on the SSD.

You should boot from the new drive without any problems.

Typical USB-to-SSD adapter:

Good Luck