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09-30-2019 06:14 PM
I bought this laptop with a 128GB SSD and want to install a larger 1TB drive. Without opening the laptop, I want to know if I have more than one slot so I can install the new hardware and clone the old drive. If I only have one slot, how can I accomplish this?
09-30-2019 06:34 PM
Yes, you can add 1TB or 2TB normal 2.5" HDD or SSD to your machine but you need more parts. Please look at page 36 of the following manual
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06267384.pdf
It will shows you part # and how to add 2.5" HDD/SSD to your machine.
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09-30-2019 07:20 PM
I bought the SSD already and it’s the M.2 SSD from Crucial. It comes with Acronis software for cloning but naturally I cannot clone if I only have one SSD slot. Maybe the software can create an image of my current SSD drive and then I can transfer that to the new M.2 SSD drive ?? I have to investigate that thru Crucial. I was wondering if there is some other way.
10-05-2019 11:51 AM
This seems to be a common problem which I have not seen any solution to. My laptop is only three months old. Would HP Support help me? I bought a laptop with only a 128GB SSD -- too small. I since bought a 1TB SSD to replace it with, bought an external enclosure for the new SSD for cloning purposes, cloned the drive. I can see it in disk management, it seems identical to the original SSD ... but it will NOT boot up when I replace the new SSD into the old SSD slot. I have been searching for a solution to no avail. Can someone help?