Some laptops still have a DVD drive bay, and for those who need the storage capacity, but the larger capacity SSD price is a little prohibitive, get what is called a 2nd drive adapter which will allow you to put the hard drive in the DVD bay and run the SSD drive as your C: drive. I did that, and loved the performance and the idea that I was able to keep my media in the 2nd drive as well. I'm glad you mention this in your presentation, and showed the drive caddy adapter. What is really nice is when you can get 2 SSDs where the smaller one is the C: drive, and the larger capacity SSD is the 2nd drive. It will really scream then. Especially when you download a large file directly to the second drive. You can watch the transfer times greatly improve. Great and informative presentation. Thanks.

brilliant - ppl like you embody the true spirit of the internet - freedom of free infomation with learning and improvement of and in all things being crucual. Keep up the good work, man. Never stop

This is an excellent presentation emphasizing the manual's mistakes and showing with precision how to do the job. I have 15-au063cl and seems to be a very similar model. in no time I was able to disassemble it and with the hint about Samsung SSD software the job was a piece of cake. The only thing I forgot it was the battery disconnection. But, lucky me, was not a problem. Thank you Michael, when in NJ I will buy you a beer (or 10). Good job !

this might be the most soothing video to listen and fall asleep to. thanks for potentially curing my insomnia.

Great guide. Bought this same laptop on sale at Costco with 12GB ram. Replaced the hard drive following your steps and it's humming along nicely now. Cheers!

Have never seen a better video-clear pictures clear voice sound perfect camera perfect voice pleasant and loud enough! nothing wrong here and the info wow!

Thank you for this post as I had no idea how to get to the HD. I was an IBM CE for 20+ years and never thought a company would be so restrictive for upgrading.

Thanks for the help, the swap went flawlessly.

Never got so much info in my life. Very cool Thank u

Wow, Mike, you are amazing to watch doing a task. So sure and knowledgeable working on a laptop. I wish your repair shop was handy to where I live. I find computers so complicated. I wish when you buy a new laptop, one could clone everything from the old laptop to the new laptop with only one cable.

Awesome video! Very informative and detailed.

This is one of the most informative and simple do it your self video on you-tube. I'm read to do laptop surgery.

Great video. Well planned out and presented. Thanks

A whole disassembly video without ad. Loved it

very good video mike was very professional and knowledgeable and informative on installing a ssd from hdd drive,

THANK YOU ALOT FOR THIS! I received the same HP Pavillion as a gift a while back (mine is gold colored) and ever since its been a headache finding inf or tutorials for it. In over 18 months this is the first video I could find with someone opening up my laptop. Its a great computer and is more than capable for the majority of things I do. I have been trying to find a way to upgrade the video card somehow but it comes "integrated". Iv'e looked into external cards but there is no thunderbolt/type c port to do it. If you can think of a way to upgrade my video card specs somehow let me know. I'm just going to end up linking an xbox to it lol. I'm still learning about all this. I just recently finished my first html cert. Thanks again

Brilliant video. Clear and concise information

Hey Michael, this is very informative and your voice is calming! keep it up, thanks

Hey Michael. Thank you so much for all this information. I have learn here so much, because of the different topics you have covered. I do appreciate, now I feel confident I can do it my self. God Bless you man

Great VDO, thanks doing VDO.

This is a well put together instructional video that helped me get to the hard drive, which I surely would have broken something without it. Thanks for the detail and time you took to put this together.

Thank you. You are the best at this.

Excellent video, this helped me a tonne thanks Michael. Instant subscription from me 👍🏾

Thanks a lot for this video with clear instructions. Thanks

Excellent tutorial!

nice & neat explanation, easy to follow instruction.

really nice in depth video

watched this video because my HP Pavillion got faulty and needed to know some background of what's inside and insight on what could be the repair possibilities. Your video Michael is excellent. Thank you very much. Regards from Chile.

@BruhHowDidIGetHere

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know if it can get an extra Hard Drive added to it?

Thank you so much for providing the valuable information

Very very useful and informational video with easily understandable. Thank you for making this type of informational video.

The cloning of data portion of this was a good video

My Toshiba C55 was very easy to do, had removable covers on the memory and hard drive.

Thank you for your video It helped me alot.

its very usefull and informative the way you talk, explain thanks bro

Thank you very much for this 1 new subscriber :)

Great job on this video. I was able to follow exactly and got my new SSD installed. SO FAST NOW

@prashantsrivastava59

3 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me how to extend ram ?

@MichaelTheComputerGuy

3 жыл бұрын

There are tons of videos that show you how to do that.

@prashantsrivastava59

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelTheComputerGuy thanks 👍🏼

@diy-fun509

3 жыл бұрын

Does this model support M2 pcie nvme ssd?

Great video man!

best video ever !!!!! thanks from Panama !!!!

Thank you Bro for such a wonderful lecture.

Thanks for this excellent video.

Very good and useful information.. Learnt that cloning of hard disk can be done .. thanks for the information..

It was very informative and understandable thank you

Great Video , me as a tech totally agree with you, why manufactures put such a large hard drive in a laptops is getting really silly some are now getting 2tb drives in them, If they were to put more SSD in laptops the price would come down on SSD. It seems the OEM's are trying to make it harder for us guys to try and repair laptops just putting a small compartment door like we used to have would have been an easy job to put a new drive in rather than having to split the laptop and then risk the customers warranty. I am surprised that they don't solder the ram in as well so we can't upgrade that to. Once again Great video keep up the good work.

Thank you Michael for your excellent tutorial on replacing a laptop hard drive with a solid state drive. You are articulate and your knowledge on the subject is apparent. I feel competent to tackle making this replacement in my own HP laptop now! Thanks very much for sharing your expertise!

Helped me out quite a good bit. Thanks!

Awesome video Michael. You bailed me out Sir. Thank you very much.

Hi. Thanks for your video. I come back to say your advice of buying the ssd + the adapter has worked great in my HP 15 laptop (HP 15-DA0073M specifically)!

Solid upload!

Muy buena demostración y muy clara explicación

Thank you so much for the video, Michael. This is very helpful.

Very useful information...thanks

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! Couldn't figure out how to get the access panel off. That was a tough nut to crack!

Great Video, great instructions...i am more comfortable now to swap my hdd for ssd on my own.... thank you

Great Video!!! Keep on man!

Many thanks, I just used the video for upgrading my HP Pavilion 15-au007nx.

You got my like and a subscribe. Very informative

Thanks , great video!

Looked fairly intimidating to open when I was about to do it, but after watching your video I had it done within minutes. I do miss the days when every laptop was easier to upgrade though; when removing the HDD was just a case of removing a couple screws. Even the weird non-standard HDD connector HP have used seems to have been in an effort to dissuade the casual consumer from upgrading it if they get that far.

very informative video thanks a lot!

Thanks for the TIPS Michael, Especially showing the "Tools" used to do the JOB right.. Thanks for the tips about how to get the MANUAL for my device...this was the best 38 minutes I've ever spent on You Tube!

Very good information thank you

You can even improve that startup time by enabling quick power up in the Windows 10 power settings

@sums323395

4 жыл бұрын

This feature is active by default on win 10

thank you for your valuable infos

This was really useful, thank you!

@jazfamily4476

3 жыл бұрын

Ok r

@jazfamily4476

3 жыл бұрын

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Excellent - The optical drive HDD/SSD caddy was a completely new concept to me. Thanks.

Great video. Well done, quick and informative. Thank you!

Hi! Many thanks for video! I can't find link for downloading of service manual. It is disappeared from official hp site. Could you please give me this link or file for downloading?

you did a wonderful step by step explanation. You my friend, are awesome!

i have the HP 15-ba079dx I am looking at replacing the old HDD with the SSD Thanks for any input

Helped me a lot. Thanks !

Michael Cooper great tech schooling!!!

Thank u very much for the link

nice video, very useful

awesome I just get to know some basic stuff from this

Totally agree with you on the speed difference, i used to use a windows 10 computer with a Hard disk drive that was 7 years old and didnt know it at first, and spent a whole year on trying to fix its driver issues and its sluggishness, then found out it was the hard disk drive. always wondered why i heard scratching and humming noises and the computer over heating xD

Very good Video, i just bought the 15-au023cl and was looking for SSD replacement videos. Nicely explained :-)

Very Good Video. Thanks. If a person don't have a plastic wedger, I used a top from a Bic Pen and ran around excellent. Listen for "pop-pop" clamp noises as you do it, your not cracking it(sounds like it).. Keep Bic pen lid flat as you trim around. Worked for me.👍 Question. My Battery(BP02XL) has a "pillow" looking design on each side instead of a flat surface. Has an intendation in the middle separating them. Normal?

Thank you Michael ... I'm in pursuit of your shared knowledge, and usefulness now.

Very well demonstrated Need the name of cloning the drive.

Thanks for the video, very informative.

Great video i never knew about those cd drive adaptors for HDDs... I gota buy one plus an SSD for my laptop.

thank you lot for your explanation :)

Excellent video. Really a pro. Thank you!

Is this laptop have M.2 Ssd Slot? Because i have Hp 15 au620tx.. Thanks

Look back on my channel for a Windows 10 upgrade video. You can use the downloaded tool from Microsoft in that video to make a usb flash drive with the Windows 10 installer

Your voice is very ASMR and calming to situations I cannot understand. Thank you for your informative video and honesty of HP. I have gone with them for years; but, I have moved on to ASUS for the reason of they use SSDs for their Laptops and they aren't as bad as they used to be. Lovely editing and can see you made a good effort towards your videos. A subscribe and like from me. Ohh and also comment.

Excellent video. I learned a lot! Must replace my HDD and I will use a SSD. Should I upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10?

Hi Michael, great video. Why did you need the adapter?

Excellent.

Thanks for the video mate. Always just done desktop so working with a laptop is a little different. good video and very well explained thanks again.

My dumb luck! Looking to do an upgrade to RAM on THE SAME MACHINE (!) and having seen this will replace the drive too. Great explanation. Saves me all the trouble of the screw location etc. Two thumbs up.

@jgfinn3

4 жыл бұрын

Just did my upgrade to 16 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte SSD. Ran your video as I did it, step-by-step. Backup using the Macrium software was 3+ hours but the rest was about 35 minutes. Wow--what an improvement in performance. Thanks so much.

Thanks a Bunch!!

good video thanks a lot.

that was great stuff im going to do my first one thanks it helps

I have an HP Notebook with a Hard Drive that has a partition formatted for FAT32 and another Windows Partition formatted for NTFS. I am really having a hard time cloning the drive over to a SSD as I keep getting errors saying basically like "incompatible formats between the source and destination drive". Have never had this problem before and have run out of ideas. I was able to create a Windows disk image of the source drive but don't seem able to make the computer boot to the Windows system repair disk despite having changed the BIOS to boot to the CD drive. Got any ideas?

I have a hp 15f125wm with a celeron n2940 (1.83ghz) would this work for me?

Good job thanks

Good video

I have done the same. I realy want to se whats next , when starting the computer, booting and innstaling the operativ system.

Great Video - very informative. One suggestion I would add is to place a towel or thick cloth underneath the laptop when turned over to protect the surface. If the unit was put on its back, and say a screw/foreign object had been accidently left underneath, this would certainly leave a mark or scratch. This once happened to me, but it will now not happen again!

@MichaelTheComputerGuy

5 жыл бұрын

To me that seems redundant. All you'd be doing is replacing one surface with another that could also have some piece of debris on it that would cause a scratch. I've been using this table for 10 years and it shows. The table is very scarred up and looks awful but it is not hard enough to leave a scratch on any laptop. As for debris being left behind and causing a scratch I make it a point to wipe off the table on a regular basis.