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‎11-29-2021 10:59 AM

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Product: OMEN 15-ax225nd
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello,

 

My current laptop contains the "SanDisk SD8SNAT-128G-1006" which is nearly full. Therefore I have chosen to upgrade this SSD to the "Samsung 980 500GB" with nvme3.0 instead of 4.0. My laptop currently contains the Sandisk SSD with OS and my old HDD with my programs and applications installed on this HDD.

 

I wanted to do a clean install on my new SSD. So I am planning to remove the old SSD and then installing the new SSD and booting from an external USB with the WIN10 installation. My question is if this is possible and also if I can keep my HDD connected while doing all of this.

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‎11-29-2021 11:37 AM

HP Recommended

Hi:

 

Yes, you should be fine doing it that way, since the 2.5" drive is only being used for storage.

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