UPGRADING HP M7 N109DX TO SSD

I HAVE AN ADATA 480GB THAT I WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL IN CONCERT WITH THE EXISTING 1TB HDD, I GOT THE CADDY ETC. WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO MAKE IT MY BOOT ON WIN 10< Ive skimmed through the articles here and it seems the place to get the answers

 

There is only two ways you can do this By either installing windows on your ssd and backing up everything on the hdd to the ssd (The Old Fashioned Way) or use the cloning method which avoids reinstalling windows and starting over. You would need a USB to SATA wire to do this but in your case you dont need this wire because you got the caddy and sata wire.

Make you sure you have your SSD plugged into your laptop into your laptop's 2nd sata slot. Heres a video telling you how to open your laptop to do this.


You would need to download a data migration software. Before using the program make your HDD's used space isnt bigger than your SSD. Once your OS and files are now on the SSD plugin your SSD to your laptop's 1st sata slot and everything should work!. You can use your old HDD as a data drive by plugging it into the 2nd sata slot but make sure you reformat it otherwise it wont work

Good Luck!

 

so in the video(where i got my caddy) hes not using the SSDas boot, so i willhave to move my hard drive to the seconnd slot and put the ssd where the original went, do i have that right? also my laptop is new not much on it so i backed it up to an external should i stil back it t the ssd first as you suggested?

 

Depends what method you wanna do. The cloning method will make the SSD boot drive the without the need of reinstalling windows and reinstalling everything. It'll be like the same as it was on your HDD, After that you can safety reformat your HDD and move the SSD to the 1st slot and everything should work fine. If you still gonna reinstall windows, then the SSD will need to be in the first slot but leave your reformatted hard drive out until after you get windows installed on your SSD.

 

Ok hers what I did( i am a rookie) I back up my harddrive onto external(only had os and tiny bit of data) Installed ssd on 2nd SATA got the computer to "see" the new drive and format it, but its still not the boot drive but i now have my 1tb(only 97gn on it) and my SSD with 477 gn free how dio i swap it to boot, i tried bios(in win 10) and theres to boot options but my HP win 10 does shw my original and the new SSD which is great(took a little doing )

 

You need this

http://www.backup-utility.com/articles/adata-ssd-disk-migration-tool-5740.html

Follow the instructions to clone your HDD to your new SSD and then after its done plug in the SSD into the 1st sata slot

 

excellent, i found the samepage earlier so im glad i dint eff this all up, next up is installing the new m.2 in m6 w105dx coming soon.......

 

Good to hear and enjoy your upgrade!

 

Ok so i cloned the HDD to the SSD and swapped the SSD into sats slot 1 and HDD into stat slot 2 fired her up and viola, all is well. Now is there anything else i should do like "restore" or am i good to go? This forum has helped a lot, this M7_N109dx is now a beast.
^th gen I7
16GB DDR3 SDRAM
1TB HDD
480GB SSD
I wondering is there anything else i need to do.
touchscreen
and now onto addinmg the m.2 that hp should have put in the M6 w105dx

 

Ok one more small thing i got to bios and disk management sset up the SSD as boot and it shows it as such in "this pc" but when restarting it it show the HDD as boot PLUS its showing two other drives entirely
so i have windows C (boot) 1 TB HDD
recovery D
dvd
windows H SSD
recovery J(all red)
Local disk J
Is this because i cloned HDD to SSD and then simply swapped sat1 to sata 2 and didnt back it up?

 

I told you to reformat your HDD as windows still thinks its still your boot drive.

Just to be safe remove your HDD and boot up to windows with just the SSD. If everything is fine you can safety reformat the HDD and use it as a data drive

 

I thought i did just that, im using aomei backupper and i cloned one to the other, then physically swapped them to thier individual SATA connects. In bios i can swap to ssd for boot, but then on restart it goes back over to HDd. please walk me thru one more time if possible, im backing up entire system to external drive now to be safe

 

After the cloning process you was supposed to switch the SSD to the 1st slot while leaving your HDD out making sure everything works. Your 2nd sata slot will never be used for a boot drive because windows will only boot from the 1st slot.

 

Ok took out HDD and booted it off Just SSD and it worked no prob, now how do i put hdd baqck in and not have it switch over to HDD as boot

 

You would need to reformat the HDD. There are plenty of ways to do this. Put your HDD in the 2nd sata slot and go to disk management or use a 3rd party partition software to do this.

http://www.disk-partition.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

 

Thanks for all your patience, i think the exictement is what caused me to skip a step, its up and booting off ssd no prob and second drive is empty and waiting for storage, thank you man, I really appreciate it. IM STOKED!!!!!

 

Anytime man! Once again enjoy your upgrade

 

Product Name: HP m6 w105dx
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
So...I simply try to install an M.2 SSD in my M6 order thee exact duplicate Hp would use, after it arrives I discover it has no M.2 adaptor in it, it has the slot but no adaptor, So I order a 1 tb evo 850 and while im in there I pull the motherboard to jack up the memory from 8 to 16 after cloning the origina HDD( i think where the prob lies) I install everything make a video on how to take out the motherbard etc. trun it on and ............ Nothing it doesnt boot no xcreen NADA the fan turns on and off a bit, but nothing, SO. I pull the SSD and re install the original and still nothing. I think I may have fouled up cloning the HDD i did it thru my M7 hp so to not have to reinstall the HDD. any thoughts?? Im dead in the water here.