Upgrade SSD

[Nikhil154]

I am using a HP Pavilion Gaming laptop which has 1TB SATA HDD and 256 GB PCIe® NVMe SSD
The SSD has all the system files and applications installed, if i want to upgrade the SSD to around 1TB or higher, what are my options and how should i proceed?

[tk_srq]

@Nikhil154,

M.2 NVMe SSDs have no capacity limit. You can upgrade the SSD to 1 TB, 2 TB or more.

You may be able to use HP Cloud Recovery Tool to install Windows on a new drive. If not, you can clean install Windows from Microsoft Windows download site.

You can also clone the stock SSD to a new M.2 drive. You just need a USB to M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure adapter and cloning software.

If you tell us the exact model number or product number (ProdID), which you can find on the bottom cover of your notebook, we may be able to provide more assistance.

[Nikhil154]

Hello, Thank you for the reply and the information provided.
I am currently using HP Pavilion, 15-ec0xxx gaming laptop

It has got 16 GB RAM

                     1,14TB Storage out of which

                     1TB is HDD and 256GB SSD

I am looking to upgrade it's SSD such that I could have equal storage and more memory on the SSD keeping it fast. 

[tk_srq]

You can replace the current SSD with one with a size you want, 1 TB, 2 TB or more.

Your m.2 slot is gen3. A gen4 SSD will work but won't run at the designed gen4 speeds.

You can install an M.2 SSD like this.

Amazon.com: TEAMGROUP MP33 PRO 1TB SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC NVMe 1.3 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 Internal Soli...

Chapter 5 of the service manual shows how to install M.2 SSDs.

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion Gaming 15 Laptop PC

This HP video may be of help.

Removing & replacing parts for HP Pavilion Gaming 15 | HP Computer Service

If you want to install Windows on a new drive, you can create a bootable Windows installation usb drive with Microsoft Media Creation Tool from this Microsoft download site.

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