Upgrading from HDD to SSD

[AtticusFinch1]

Good morning, I own an old system (2018), it says HP 15-da0xxx but i believe its the 055la or something like that. It comes with a low end Pentium Silver n4000 and 8GB RAM DDR4, Nvidia MX110, and I can't find for the love of me if its compatible with a SSD Nvme m.2 or not. I looked at the manual for hp15 models and it says it is, up to 500 GB which is perfect, but then searching the serial number of the replacement part gives me a ssd worth 150 bucks, discontinued and used product, although i can find the "same" one for 50 or something.

Now the problem is I am quite dumb and I dont even know if the laptop even has a port for a SSD, all I see is the HDD SATA already there. I was thinking of (if it has a port and if it is compatible) on a Kingston SNV2S/500G NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0x4 (though all I read about it is bad) or a Crucial P3 500GB NVMe M.2 3.0. Thanks.

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Good morning:

The 15-da0xxx notebooks that come with the Pentium Silver N5000 or Celeron N4000 processors do not have M.2 slots.

Your only option for a SSD upgrade would be to replace the 2.5" mechanical hard drive with a 2.5" SATA SSD.

Below is the link to the service manual:

HP 15 Laptop PC Maintenance and Service Guide

[AtticusFinch1]

Would putting one of those NVMe M.2 SSD inside an external case carry disk Hiskemi Md202 be possible or even worth it? It says speed is up to 10 Gbps but I don't know how much Im missing, or other way of getting an M.2 that isn't buying a new pc. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

It wouldn't work. 

Those devices use different drive controllers, and are not compatible with SATA controllers.

[AtticusFinch1]

So the options are SSD SATA internal or external, or buying a new device, correct?  Sorry for all the questions and thank you for replying.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

There would be no point to install an external SSD.

So, it would be a 2 5" internal SSD, which should still result in  a decent improvement, or a new notebook. 

I would not recommend buying any notebook with less than an Intel i5 processor. 

New PCs with Intel Core processors should all come with NVMe SSDs nowadays. 

[AtticusFinch1]

Uhm Im back. I created the windows recovery media on usb flashdrive, replaced hdd with ssd, put usb in pc turn it on then get to select keyboard language layout, and the next screen is recover from unit or advanced options but whatever i choose it says it failed after choosing it. Checked the ssd and its properly connected. Though I dont see it in the bios, the system diagnosis says there is one disk. The light that shows if the disk is being used is also present. So its going on as follow:

Turn on pc with usb boot

Select language

Then choose between recover from unit or troubleshooting (nothing in troubleshooting really works, not even repair windows, it fails)

Recover from unit gives option to keep files(fails at 3%) and clean completely fails at 50%... Im so lost. I dont know how to fix it or what the problem is. 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

When you have the recovery media in the USB port, turn on or restart the PC.

Immediately tap the ESC key to get the menu of options.

Select the F9 boot options menu and from that, select the USB flash drive and press the enter key.

The PC should boot from the USB flash drive and install Windows.

[AtticusFinch1]

Yes I did that and when it boots it goes to language selection, then the screen to recover windows or troubleshooting. Both options to recover fail at some point, keeping files at 3% and deleting them at 50%. Troubleshooting trying to restore, image or point dont work either. Repairing start also fails. I dont know what the problem is. I looked at google pictures of other people bios to check if their disk was shown there, but it wasnt for them either. When turning on the pc without the usb, i can check hardware: disk and storage. In disk says there is 1 and then storage empty.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Unfortunately, I have no idea what the problem could be.

Try clean installing W10 by making a bootable USB installation flash drive with the media creation tool from the link below:

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

You removed a 2.5" drive and replaced it with another one.

This should have worked with no problem.