HP Envy x360 M6 aq105dx

[rthorng1]

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@hchen42 wrote:

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@ssdboy wrote:

Brother i would like to see your speed test results please post them. You are using pcie ssd i want to see the speed test result,because iam also buying pcie ssd just on your experience.

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You kow any tool to do that?

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[CrazyTaz]

I see many people using Crystal disk mark http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

[ssdboy]

yes, use crystal diskmark application just google it. This is the image which was not loading. Just drag the image in another tab and it will enlarge.

[ssdboy]

Just confirmed from there workshop manuals it is a pcie3.0 slot with 4 lane data transfer it will support all new ssds and speed upto 4000mb read speeds and3000mb write speeds enjoy ur new laptops guys its a good laptop.

[tmattlee]

I believe the websites linked to earlier have reversed the image of the keys for m2 slots.

wikiwand.com/en/M.2

Has a slightly more correct image.

[tmattlee]

M key has 5 pins on top and 4 on the bottom.

B key has  6 pins on top and 5 on the bottom.

[hchen42]

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@chaoticlife wrote:

Disabling secure boot seems to have done the trick for letting me see the hd when booted to the ssd.

I don't want to delete the boot partition off of the hd yet because I'm seeing so much screwy behavior in the bios (unable to change boot order, in particular).

If someone else could try the following, I'd be grateful.

1. Boot to the bios

2. Go to system configuration -> boot options -> OS boot manager 

3. Select whichever drive is not the current boot option and hit enter to see if it changes.

When I do this, hitting enter doesn't do anything. I can't make it select the ssd as primary boot device, I have to either use the f9 option at startup each time, or remove the hd to make it boot automatically to the ssd.

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Try to use F5/F6 to switch the values.  Make sure you save it. 

[chaoticlife]

Great find ssdboy! Can you point us to the workshop manuals?

I think I finally have mine working close to how I want.

I reset everything to factory settings and then booted to windows and did the basic setup.

Next, I started a command window as admin and used diskpart to remove everything from the ssd. 

Then I immediately installed EaseUS Todo Backup Free and used it to clone the hd to ssd.

Once that seemed to work, I shut down the machine and removed the hd. I put an extra drive (with no partitions on it) into the 2.5 inch slot and booted. It booted to the ssd and I was able to see the other blank drive as well.

I did some partition shuffling because EaseUS had left me with a 200GB+ recovery partition, which was not what I had in mind.

So now I have my 512GB intel m.2 ssd as my primary drive and the 2.5 inch slot has another non-bootable drive in it. I'm not ready to format the 1TB hd that came with the machine until I install my software and make sure all works as I expect. But once I'm there, I'll throw it in there and have just what I need. 512GB of fast primary disk and 1TB of secondary storage for my new work machine.

Thanks for the help, folks!

[chaoticlife]

And here is the Crystal Disk Mark result for my 512GB intel 600p ssd. Keep in mind that the 600p is an entry level NVMe drive that I picked up for $140, so it won't keep up with higher end ones, but should beet most of the sata drives.

[Coloradoman]

Thanks for all the help of this forum thread.

I finally got it all working! 🙂

Steps:

buy m.2 ssd key m&b (I used my old broken laptops 256gb samsung m&b keyed m.2) I also think b works...

unscrew all star bit screws including 2 of them underneath the pads closest to the screen and take off the bottom panel.

install new m.2 ssd into slot in the middle of the laptop. I used a screw from microcenter they gave me for free to hold it down. I noticed though that the hhd has 2 screws and one of these can be used to hold it down but I wouldn't because it made the hhd really loose. You can also use one of the screws that holds on the back panel. (use back panel screw to hold down hhd and use hhd screw to hold down ssd)

install easeus hard drive copier software. Clone ALL contents of the HHD including all partitions to ssd. I ran into a problem where I didn't clone the system image partition.

restart windows and push esc when starting up to get to the bios. In the bios get to the part where it talks about bootup and select your ssd as the boot up drive. Make sure to change it and save your settings so each time it will boot to your new ssd instead of the hhd.

Should be good to go after this and enjoy your much faster ssd. Mine was 10x faster based on the stats of read/write from samsung magician software I tried to use.