#HOW TO SETUP SSD AS BOOT DRIVE INSTALL#
#HOW TO SETUP SSD AS BOOT DRIVE MANUAL#

I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Hi Photoray and thanks for your suggestions. My questions are: What is the drive interface that should be used? Does HP somehow block adding a second SSD in this particular model? Does HP limit the 2 combinations (sizes) of drives in this model? Any next steps you can suggest for either scenario 1 or 2? Thanks for any insight you can provide. While I thought that this was the M.2 SSD drive interface specified in the Service Manual, I cannot even get Windows to recognize the drive! Gave up on this one. Could not get Windows to fully recognize the drive and when trying to Initialize the drive in Disk Mgt, it throws an error to the effect that the drive is to small for GPI? When tyring MBR, it also throws an error (sorry I dont have the exact wording).

#HOW TO SETUP SSD AS BOOT DRIVE INSTALL#

I thought this would be straight forward to install and for windows to recognize.Well, it seemed to substantially slow down my laptop, seemed to cause conflicts with my WLAN and Logictec wireless mouse.

Added a 240GB (PNY) M.2 SSD PCIe drive - Its an M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe SSD. Ive messed with this most of the afternoon and am stuck! Not quite sure where to go from here!Дў. Im able to get through all of the partition, formatting, application copying but when it reboots to begin the installation phase, it reverts back to the start of the recovery process. So I cannot boot from the USB to install Windows on the new SSD.ДЄlso, Ive tried to use HP Recovery Mgr to configure the new drive. But, despite setting up the BIOS to boot from USB first, it seems to ignore my boot priority order and continue to boot from the existing 1 TB SATA drive. I have unplugged the current HDD where Windows sits today and tried to reboot into a Windows 10 Home 64bit media creattion USB. Added a 512GB (HP) M.2 SSD SATA Drive - I can add this drive and windows recognizes it but I cannot get windows to install on it. I happen to have both interface types of M.2 SSD and have tried both with varying degrees of 'failure' to achieve a working solution! Here are the two scenarios:ДЎ.

#HOW TO SETUP SSD AS BOOT DRIVE MANUAL#

It seems to me to suggest that either SATA or PCIe SSD can be used (I didnt think that was possible, is it?) Service Manual linked here In the Service and Maintance Manual, it specs various sized and types of M.2 drives as well as the combinations of HDD and SSD. Some of this may stem from my confusion as to the interface used for the M.2 slot.

Im struggling with getting the configuration right. I wish to add a 256GB to 512 GB M.2 SSD to this configuration, moving the boot drive to the SSD. I recently bought this HP Envy 17M-AE011DX laptop from best buy.

How to setup ssd as boot drive