Upgrading SSD on HP omen 17.3 1060 laptop

[Bashyman]

Please help.

I've bought the above laptop and want to upgrade the stock 128gb SSD boot chip with a bigger one. I've bought a samsung 960 500GB nvme SSD and want to clone the original 128gb SSD that currenty has windows.

I want to keep the installed 1tb data hdd as is.

I've tried exchanging the 1tb hdd with a formatted 750gb hdd, and then cloning the boot SSD over using AOMEI backup.

Even though it completes, once I exhange the SSD to the new one, it stated no boot device on startup. I've gone into bios, but can't see anything obvious to change. Am I doing something wrong that's obvious? I've tried clonging twince, the 1st time sector by sector, then the second time (after reformatting the 750gb) standard cloning.

Please help

BTW, once I've installed the new 500gb ssd, I want to perform a recovery and start over, but I want the 1tb data HDD to remain intact. When I installed the 750gb and took out the 1tb, I noticed the recovery part is on the 1tb. Does this mean I will lose the data on the 1tb when it recovers.

Thanks in advance

[erico]

In my experience, some cloning software just does not work as well as others.

My own preference is Paragon Migrate OS to SSD software., It is not free software.

What are you using to create the clone in terms of hardware?

You should be using an M.2 USB enclosure for the Samsung 500 GB SSD.

You will likely have better success with Samsung Migration software. Take a read of the tutorial at the link below.

https://www.custompcreview.com/articles/migrate-ssd-using-samsung-data-migration-software/

There is a link to the Samsung Migration version 2.1 in the article.

[Bashyman]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply

I have managed to get a copy of Acronis true image.

What I'm trying to do is clone the original 128gb SSD to a 750GD sata HDD, then boot from the SATA hdd after swapping the ssd's out. Then clone back to the 500gb SSD from the SATA HDD.

I've tried it this morning with the acronis software and that doesn't work either.

I previously looked into the samsung migration software, but that transfers only from ssd's to ssd's. I wanted to avoid the added cost of £40 ssd enclosure, which I'm only going to use once (NVME ones seem to be more expensive)

[erico]

If you have already used the HP Recovery Manager to create a USB Recovery flash drive, it would probably be simpler to just perform a factory recovery to the new M.2 SSD.

Unplug the legacy 1 TB spinner SATA hard drive while you perform the recovery. That way you will not affect the data on the drive 

[Bashyman]

Hi again,

So am I understanding this correctly?

I can create a recovery drive using my 750gb sata hdd in a USB enclosure, then install the new 500gb SSD, then do a factory reset on the 500gb SSD booting from the USB 750gb with the recovery software on?

Will I not lose anything from the 1tb internal hdd? Should I unplug it whilst I'm doing factory reset on the 500gb ssd? Is that what you meant by unplug the legacy?

Sorry for my ignorance

[erico · Accepted solution]

Put the original SSD back in place. 

Have your USB flash drive ready and plug it in.

Press the power button and start tapping the F2 key. 

The Recovery Manager will appear. You should see an option to create recovery media.   

Create the media.

Once you have successfully created the media you can power down and put the new M.2 SSD in place of the original unit. Unplug the SATA hard drive.

Connect the power adapter.

Power up and boot to the recovery flash drive.

In the menu that appears, select factory image recovery and click on the button to run it.

[Bashyman]

Great stuff, thanks. I'll try that when I get home from work. I'll let you know how I get on

[Bashyman]

Sorry to be a pain.

Just tried this and firstly, F2 brings up diagnostics. I found the system recovery on F11.

I can't seem to find create recovery media

If I go into the recovery manager section, it gives me the option to do a system recovery, but only to either keep my files or not.

The advaned section has 6 options. 

System restore

Uninstall updates

System image recovery

Startup repair

Command prompt

UEFI Fiirmware settings

I've checked in those options and can't find anywhere to create the recovery media

AHHH, this is a nightmare. Please help me further

[Bashyman]

Hi,

I looked in windows and in the settings section there was a section to create a recovery drive.

I did this and follwed the steps as you outlined and voila...my new 500gb SSD is in place, most of my software and data is back in place.

Thanks for your help...you're a star

[erico]

YOu're welcome1

Good to hear that it is sorted.  Put that USB recovery flash drive somewhere safe. You only get to make one HP recovery drive. 

Enjoy the holiday season with your family and friends!