...just as an update...my kids (ages 6 and 9) have been using these everyday since christmas - not a single problem and the performance is great for what they are doing - watching RUclips, Netflix and playing Roblox and Minecraft. They both love them.
I'm wondering why you took the original sticks of memory into the laptops, there isn't any dual channel memory so why not letting them in ? It's always extra ram :)
Please take a bow. My girl got one on sale. It kept running out of space so I had her bring it over. 30GB. Really? Being a long time IT guy I hate doing this stuff in my off time. Being a server guy, I doubly dislike messing with laptops. This was an enormous help.
@@trionic5 late reply lol but i have a hp laptop with a AMD A4 and i just upgraded the ram from 4 to 8 and the performance update from that itself is like night and day
Just in case anybody's still trying to fix these things -- my wife has had one of these for a couple of years and got to the point where doing Windows updates was impossible. I just finished installing a 500G Samsung SSD, and everything seems to be working great. Here's what I did. I didn't mess with the bios at all. I put the new SSD in an external case I had (although I assume it would have worked just as well starting out by mounting it internally using the connector from the CD caddy). I used Clonezilla (booted from a USB thumb drive) to do a full disc clone from the 32G internal SSD to the new 500G SSD. Then I shut down the machine, installed the SSD internally, and unplugged the cable for the old 32G internal drive. At that point, it booted happily from the large SSD, but because of the disk-to-disk cloning, the main partition was still only 27G on the new drive (leaving tons of unallocated space). So lastly, I used DISKPART to delete the recovery partition on the new SSD, which then enabled me to expand the C drive (using the Windows disk manager) to use the rest of the space on the SSD. Right now, it's grinding through all of the windows updates it couldn't do with the small SSD.
Of course only "Windows Boot Manager" shows up, since you don't have another FAT32 device with an EFI folder. What you should've done is keep legacy support disabled, use Rufus to create a Windows UEFI USB, connect the USB drive before turning on the PC, then select the installer USB which would've run in native UEFI mode instead of BIOS emulation. Delete all partitions on the internal SSD and install Windows on the unallocated space on the new one to let it create the ESP on the new drive automatically. There are many reasons why native UEFI is better than BIOS emulation.
Hey I just bought a HP Refurbished 14-an013nr from Walmart for 150 bucks put a 8 gig stick of memory in it now have 12gigs of memory,Put in a 256 Gb Crucial SSD drive it works great I now have a fast computer for all my RUclips HD viewing.
Thank you very much for this video, it made my job a lot easier. I did some mods though that might help. The tray supplied by Amazon fits perfectly in the computer case. I found no need to remove the adapter and tape in the drive. Made the installation much cleaner, and is a solid mount that I don't have to worry about the drive coming lose. Also, by initializing the drive as letter D: and reassigning the libraries to D:, I was able to leave the operating system on C: and now as long as the customer stores their data in the proper libraries, C: should not run out of room. Thanks again, gave me some great ideas for future projects.
Thank you so much for this video. I was starting to give up hope on this laptop due to the internal HDD limitations, but now I can give it a 2nd life that it deserves.
Reviews of his have sold me on it for my 11 year old for her school laptop. I'm buying it on Amazon with a 64gb mini USB drive, but upgrading that SSD is definitely on my docket. Thanks for the good video instruction. Saved for later.
Good video, but I recommend you keep the 32g drive, make it bootable and secondary and put all the windows installers and drivers on it as a restore drive. My kids are horrible on computers, and I'm always reimaging our drives.
Tutoriale și jocuri interesante this is weird man...I'm not even touching or using the edges and the table itself is a piece of slate with speed felt...it's a perfect work surface for this job...
Just as an update, I have been using my laptop everyday after doing this. As a Computer Science major, this works well for what assignments I need to get done(unless I am working with virtual box). Aside from that it works fine, even tried some small games I bought from steam.
This laptop wont work well with virtual box? I would think with the SSD upgrade done in this VID and the 8gb of ram would upgrade this quite a lot..? I was thinking that running a low cpu/ram intensive virtual box system (wins7 32-bit w/ a few special programs) would work no problem. But maybe i was wrong? What should i look for in a laptop spec's to see how well it can be used as a virtual box compatible laptop, for once and a while use?
Thanks for the video. I successfully upgraded my HP 14-an013nr. I ordered an Aireye ssd and installed it with a caddy (no velcro) because it lined up perfectly to plug in and when I installed the backing or bottom, it seemed to actually lock in the caddy so it can't move. The software work was tricky as I first used MiniTool/Partician Wizard with limited success then after reformatting the drive, I retried with Macrium. That worked really well (help from a tech blog). For now, I disable the drive in Computer Manager / Device Management because I could not find that option in the BIOS. Maybe later I'll activate the drive and use it but for now, it will remain unused and ready with the operating system in case of emergency. Because of your video and another's, I was able to do this upgrade. THANK YOU!!!
Look for this caddy on Amazon: HIGHROCK Hard Drive Caddy Tray 9.5mm Universal SATA 2nd HDD HD SSD Enclosure Hard Drive Caddy Case Tray, for 9.5mm Laptop CD / DVD-ROM Optical Bay Drive Slot (for SSD and HDD). Its costs $7.99
Lance, you should know that I did open the computer back up to make sure the drive was secure and to check my RAM as I forgot to when first opened. When I was in there a second time, I did use a velcro dot to help secure the drive and I kept it in the caddy as it fit pretty well when the cover was closed and secured.
Thank you very much. It took me about 3-4 days for watching and understanding your videos, installing an SSD, and configuring drives. the 32 GB original drive didn't have enough space for Win upgrade, factory reset or creating an install USD drive. I used other laptop to create the USB install drive. This was my first ever upgrade. I think HP shouldn't have sold this with a 32 GB drive. After having poor two quality laptops (dead in 13 months, and this, I never buy an HP again.
yes, a 32GB drive in this thing is really dumb. The OS and the built-in installer files takes up 90% of the available space...there's no space to install anything else. Glad the video helped.
I am facing issues. I installed SSD and I can see it in my win 10 disk mgmt as unallocated. I created win 10 iso on pen drive. Then changes bios legacy support to enabled. Now, when I boot and select by pen drive I get a oragne white stripes:- similar to one posted here : superuser.com/questions/533360/windows-8-shows-orange-screen-with-white-stripes-on-boot I dont what to do. I am stuck. Please help. UPDATE: After investigation, I fixed it. Turns out that my USB installation drive downloaded from MSDN was corrupted.
I could have used it for a lot of things...again, I was giving this to my kids so to keep things simple I disabled it...the SSD I put in has more storage than they could ever possibly use so there was no need.
@@mustafaahsan1999 This is from Kingston: www.kingstonmemoryshop.co.uk/laptop/hp/hp-14-an013nr-laptop There is someone on HP forums who says his has 16gb also.
@@mustafaahsan1999 16gb isn't necessary for the weak processor, and I actually upgraded one of these for a family member. Difference in my upgrade, is I removed the "drive" from it's case, but installed it the same way. I installed 8/RAM. The only difference between 8gb, and 16gb in this machine, is when using it on-line. You'll be able to open pages a little faster. Not fast enough to spend the extra Ducket$.
This is a great video! For at least Samsung SSDs, you can avoid the pain and stress of OS and data migration described here with a free tool from Samsung, called "Data Migration Tool" or something like that. I did not check, but I wouldn't be surprised if other SSD manufacturers have similar tools. The documentation that comes with the Samsung tool states that it doesn't work with other manufacturers' SSDs. So check with the manufacturer of your SSD before you spend money on a migration tool.
Bought two of these on Groupon. I was even going to buy 2 more this month, but hard drive space would make it difficult if not impossible to do the latest windows security updates. I bought them for around 130 on Groupon I think. That's still an awesome price.
Another alternative is to install Linux, get a 64 bit edition, (Lubuntu is what I use), through the USB drive, take the option to make the entire HD a Linux. Download VirtualBox. Take out your old Window XP O/S CD out. Get an external DVD-RW hooked up. Allocate to the new O/S about 256 MB or the 2 GB RAM. Lubuntu runs super on 1,750, and XP runs super on 256 MB. Make the Hard Drive folder around 1 TB for Windows XP. Put all your older Windows programs on the Windows XP VirtualBox. Update to latest SP3, Browser, ETC. What you will have is a super Internet with Lubuntu, and your old Microsoft versions. You are only going to use this for Internet surfing at McDonalds, but this is all for free, except for the time. I did this with a Toshiba, Celeron, 2 GB, 32 GB, clearance $105.00, installed XP...OK...I am a little weird, I also installed Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0, but it works perfect.
First off, thanks so much for this very informative video and links Ken! One thing to note, the HP docs linked above seem to be a little out of date as on page 66 where they talk about creating the recovery media it talks about it seems to imply that it can only create DVDs, but when I went to do it just now it just told me to pop in a 8GB USB (mine size) and that it would format it and it's creating the recovery drive on it as I type...
I just purchased this laptop for college, and I found out that using this method of connecting the disk drive to the optical drive port causes some slowdown and confusing windows issues since it is on the optical disc drive sata port. I would recommend using a ribbon cable that takes the 10pin signal and converts it to a sata connector. This is actually a common upgrade for HP Envy laptops. It has also been tested on the HP Stream and appears to work just fine. Here is the link to the cable in question. www.amazon.com/Drive-Connector-Cable-6017B0421601-Short/dp/B01M6E4I7R/
techguy348: hello, do you think its possible to take out the emmc hdd and put in not 1 but 2 ssd drives? Using your cable method and also his bracket method for the optical slot? I just bought this laptop and it looks like theres enough room just very cramped. (With some minor cutting or modding of course)
techguy348: i went ahead and bought that cable and a new ssd drive. I will do a fresh windows install and hope that the repsonse times are faster. The built in emmc drive just seems to take forever to load even with youtube videos. Hopefully this all works out. Thank you for the advice( also plan on upgrading the 4gb ram later in a couple months)
I have bought a laptop with gt 840m 2gb, 500gb hdd, core i3 4005u (its a lenovo) for 263 euros/ 289,99 dollars. It was refurbished but a nice machine for the money!
I would so go for a refurbished Lenovo (and have, and am about to do it again for a second laptop) over one of these cheap HP deals, no hate towards the person who made this video (obviously it's helped a lot of people get cheap computers) but I can't stand low end HP laptops.
I found the easiest way to upgrade this was to sell it less than a year after buying it. My sister bought this on a cyber monday sale last year and it's so cheaply made. Then we find out her brand spanking new HP laptop doesn't even have a dual band wifi card and we have a dual band router. Really, no dual band and a 10 year old lenovo can see the 5g transmitter? Just another reason I HATE HP. I flip laptops and I deal mostly in Lenovo business class and I found the perfect laptop for her, the lenovo Edge 15 with the backlit keyboar. She stole that from me so I sold her HP cheap
It's not a hard disk drive. The storage found in that laptop is cheap eMMC storage, which you can also find in older high-end/newer mid-range phones and tablets. You could say HDD but an HDD would almost perform better here....
thanks for the video. it saved me from a few good sized mistakes. for me, the whole HDD caddy fit perfect. it appears as if it will not however, looking at the bottom plate cover closely , one of the dividers is shorter... so it holds the caddy down. Just for GP, I did use a small strip of Velcro on the caddy. as far as the eMMC drive, after I got windows installed, i just took one end of the ribbon loose from the mother board. The restore USB kept loading to it instead of the new drive. disconnecting it resolved that problem. THANKS AGAIN!
PRO TIP: Since you are leaving the M2 drive in, you can steal one of HP's good ideas and turn it into a recovery partition. All you need is a Windows ISO and a program called EasyBCD. If you are really good, you can put the drivers in there as well, but that's a whole discussion of it's own.
from what i've experienced, the dvd drive has a screw (port?) that comes off next to where the connection is and you add it to the dvd drive adapter. and it gets installed when you put the laptop back together and one of the screw holes hold the drive in place. I've done this to a laptop i have.
Honestly considering buying one of these to have as a backup / programming machine. I am a Mac user and don't have good luck programming with mac unfortunately
...you should be fine with it for that. I've been pretty impressed with them thus far for the amount spent. My kids beat them up and they are still ticking...no problems. Definitely worth the upgrades though...
What is the highest hard drive this thing will take? and what is the largest Ram upgrade this thing will take? Are the laptops still working? great video by the way
The short answer is 8GB. The easy answer is 8GB on one module - if you don't have time to open the case before you order. The expanded answer is that the memory controller is built into the CPU and Intel capped this Celeron at 8GB of total system RAM. The on chip memory controller has 2 memory access channels (I checked - good news) but some of these HP Stream 14's come with motherboards that only have one memory slot soldered on the board - which has a place for it but the 2nd plastic socket was left off). Because of dual channel memory access, a 4GB + 4GB (two 4GB modules for 8GB total bought as a matched pair) would be best. But if the board is one of the unlucky ones with just one plastic slot, a single 8GB module is the only way you can go.
I'm working on a similar HP laptop for some friends, which also kept running out of space. This video has been a great help, so thank you. Does Windows automatically re-activate itself from the BIOS? My friends do not have a code, and their retailer told them this.
nice video dude, would you happen to know the maximum read and write speed? and would I be able to run my OS off a hard drive like this if I wanted to ditch the emmc completely?
the laptop alone is $350 before tax all on it's own! can the price change that extremely over the course of two years?!? and isn't the price supposed to go down over time as the technology ages, not become more expensive?
Once you have spent extra money to upgrade the ssd and ram, wouldn’t it be more cost efficient to buy a better laptop with that extra capability already installed? Or possibly a late model second hand one but swap out an older tech hdd for a new ssd?
Hi- was so excited to see this. Bought all stuff. Found your walk through on bios and need to have usb boot drive was a little slim. Did amazon prime now to get usb to save media and boot.... didn’t work. Nor seeing 120 SSI. Windows on 32stock SSI and nice 32 g Samsung usb. You still out there? Can’t imagine drives and allocated spaces issues to come....you are anyone with advice to finish this?? So disappointed.....
Great information. I just bought this model and and am about to add more storage and I have a couple questions.1) you are connecting the 2.5" SSD to the DVD SATA connector rather than the hard drive SATA connector (which is what the stock 32GB eMMC is connected to). This may be the reason the drive does not show up in the BIOS. Also I believe the DVD port uses the simpler IDE commands rather than the higher performance ahci mode. Do you think you are loosing any performance because of this? Why not install the SSD in place of the 32GB eMMC module as HP intended using part 815139 001?2) Why didn't you add a 4GB memory to the existing system to get 8GB?Thanks for your help.
After you installed windows to the ssd and rebooted did you have to change the boot order if so did you then see the new drive in the bios? I have done a similar mod to a hp stream 14 which has the 32gb eMMc on the main motherboard although i had use an adapter connected to the wifi port but it just gave me no bootable device even though windows finds it no problem.
Hello, I could use some help. I got all the way through until it was time to boot up with F9 and select my new drive. It showed up as the third option, like yours, but when I select it I keep getting the message “No bootable device-insert boot disk and press any key”. I figure I must have installed it correctly for it to show up as an option? Any advice? Thank you!
Ken Great Video, Did you have to buy another Microsoft Windows 10 key?? Or did the the laptop have the key on it so you could use that when you installed Windows Thanks!!!
I recently purchased this laptop and then cloned and installed a 250G SSD, but didn't realize that windows hadn't installed all updates. Problem is that there isn't enough drive space on the 32G drive to complete the updates. How should I proceed??
They are the technically the same model just release different dates, I realise that this was posted 2 years ago but I was just scrolling through the comments and found yours
correct. I had an ISO image (a file based version of a DVD) of Windows 10 so I used this tool to create a bootable Windows 10 USB key. www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
Thank you you saved my laptop. Now i have a 480GB SSD but i ruined the rubber feet on top of the screws. Anyone know where to find replacements? Sucks to not have them as it scratches the bottom. I know, cheap laptop, but I like to take care of my stuff. Thanks!
And his laptop looks like mine but with no Hard drive in it just the m.2 sata SSD that's 128 gb. I was hoping it had a HD to be able to clone stuff on a bigger m.2 storage. I don't know if you removed the CD drive and put a hardrive in place of it but if that works I'm trying it.
Yeah I've tried upgrading and idk what to do now lol. Plugged in SSD and nothing happens. Hard drive space is full and it doesnt let me set anything up. Not on a USB not on ssd
I didn't use it. It's in the manual on how to do it. It basically creates a bootable USB thumbdrive that allows you to restore the machine should you need to. All the OEM's include the OS install files on a recovery partition in lieu of shipping DVD's, etc... to save costs. So, it's up to you to make the disk. Again, I didn't do it so I don't have any instructions on it.
Hello, I have already installed a 500 GB HDD thanks to your video, buy a caddy and install it, now I have another problem, I would like to change the SDD for another HDT of 1 TB, my question is if in the space of 32 that They bring them normally I could put an HDD ?? Thank you!!!
Thank you for making this video. Are there 2 memory slots or 1? I noticed in another amazon review that the person said they upgraded to 8gb via 4gb x 2. I was just wondering if I could just buy 1 4gb and use the existing 4gb.
I checked the manual (in the description above there's a link) and it looks like it does support 4GB x 2 configurations. It would not however support a 8GB + 4GB combo (total of 12GB) it's pretty specific on what it can handle. Supports up to 16 GB of system RAM in the following conƭgurations ● 8192-MB total system memory (8192×1) or (4096×2) ● 6144-MB total system memory (4096×1) + (2048×1) ● 4096-MB total system memory (4096×1) or (2048×2) ● 2048-MB total system memory (2048×1)
Think you're missing a line there Ken: Supports up to 16 GB of system RAM in the following conƭgurations ● 8192-MB total system memory (8192×1) or (4096×2) ● 6144-MB total system memory (4096×1) + (2048×1) ● 4096-MB total system memory (4096×1) or (2048×2) ● 2048-MB total system memory (2048×1) ● 16384-MB total system memory (8192×2) from p2 of h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05227925 fyi
Yes, but at the bottom of page 1 you can see that there are checkboxes for Discrete graphics, UMA graphics, UMA, onboard mem eMMC, UMA onboard mem, HP 245 G5, and "onboard mem eMMC" (which I believe corresponds to the 14-an013nr) does *not* have a checkmark. So those bullets may not (probably don't) apply. That is some seriously shitty documentation HP's got there... Would be great to know what RAM configs have been confirmed to work by users. Looks like we have single 4GB and single 8GB. Anyone got 4GB + 4GB working?
There are 2 memory slots. I bought one 4 gb memory and put it in the second slot to make it total 8 gb. My new 4GB one is Crucial, different brand from the existing HP memory but it seems to work perfectly fine. I also added 240 gb SATA drive and now it’s a great computer!
Great and extremely helpful video, i'm trying to figure out... if I have Linux on a USB 3.0 and run it from there, is it potentially faster than loading the Linux OS onto the built in 32GB SSD, or on an additional SSD drive that can be installed the way you did? Just trying to see which is more responsive as far as read/write speeds (faster bus speed?) and I cant seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. I don't care about the current windows install on it, so I could overwrite it with a permanent install of Linux on the built in SSD, if that's the best way to go. Thanks for this great vid!
If you running a live version of Linux of a flash drive it loads it into ram so it will run fast , you must run a persistent drive on glad if you want to save data, it will ask you. Some nice small Linux is Tinylinux and puppy Linux.
Hi, I have hp 14-bp0xx It comes with a SSD but I am wanting to add a second HDD that I have laying around. I've taken a look and there is space to add a 2.5" HDD, just wondering if you could help me out with what cables/enclosures I would need to get it working? There's is space for a HDD but I can't see where to connect the drive.
I have two of these for my twin 12 yr olds. I have watched your video and have done all the same upgrades. Great! And thanks! I have one specific question: For fun, I put the leftover 4 GB ram stick into the second dimm slot in both laptops and the bios "recognized" it as 12gb. So, is this actually the case or is the bios giving me wrong information? And if I leave the 4 GB stick in, will effect performance? Would really appreciate your input! Thanks...
Avoid HP at all cost. Even a Dell would be better. Way less work to upgrade. These laptops are practically disposable. If you want a cheaper laptop, look into the lower end Lenovo. If you are doing graphics, save your money for a decent i7 based laptop with a dedicated graphics card. You'll still want to upgrade to an SSD. Spend the money on a good machine rather than a cheap laptop like this. You will regret owning one of these. Too slow for what you're using it.
I have a simple question? after doing all the upgrades, would it have not made more sense to buy a laptop with all these things built in? I,m on the fence about buying this laptop. With the upgrades, would it not make sense to buy a laptop with all this stuff? Just asking.....Or would a laptop with all these upgrades be so much more? The prices have gone up on all these upgrades by the way.
usually laptop sold with ssd and 8gb of ram are much more expensive...they tend to have a better CPU and are usually ultrabook and with better quality build... this one happen to be easy to open and upgrade, has fullhd monitor and is really cheap...it looks like with under 300 dollars you can have a great and fast machine for normal tasks..Of course it's not good for heavy task that depends on processor but for everything else looks fantastic
I had a cpu that just stopped holding charge . I think the motherboard got messy up. So I got this laptop past down from my sister. Can I just take the ssd and the hard rive from my old one and do the same?
As you mentioned, the caddy enclosure is useless. In this case can we not connect the SSD drive directly or do we necessary need the interface? If yes, what ssd interface should I purchase?
You need an adapter to convert 13 pin SATA (which is what typical notebook CD rom drives use), to 22 pin SATA (which is what SSD drives have). This caddy is a cheap way to get such an adapter in the right form factor. You could probably find other 13 to 22 pin SATA converters (which is what I think you mean by "interface"), but most likely they will not fit inside this laptop.
When you did a clean install of windows 10 on this pc did you get rid of all the bloatware that hp preinstalled? How did you get back all the HP esential software that you needed to let the laptop run properly? Tried cloning and did not go so well, so it looks like I might have to go the clean install route. I just want to make sure that by instaling a fresh windows 10 copy I will not be missing any vital hp files. Thanks in advance.🙏
with the latest builds of windows 10, all drivers, etc... are PnP. You shouldn't have to install anything specific from HP to get proper video, audio, chipset drivers, etc...
@@KenLince Thanks. I did notice that, so does that mean I can completely format that 32 emcc and if I need to reinstall windows in the future I should get the same results? What does PNP mean? Thanks again for all your responses🙏
@@lt5550 PNP = plug and play. The problem with the 32GB embedded drive is that it includes all of the recovery partition files required to completely reinstall the system. That takes up gigs of space and is partially the reason why right out of the box you almost have a completely unusable system because there's no storage space left for any apps. If you completely reformat that you'll lose the recovery partition. But, you don't really have to worry about drivers and such - those are plug and play - i didn't have to install any additional video/audio, etc... to get everything working .
I have a laptop hp 15 ac 021tx and my problem is that I changed ssd wd green 240gb in HDD bay, it worked well. However, the HDD 1TB put in caddy bay could not be recognized in bios or win10. I uninstall SSD and using only HDD in caddy bay, in this case, HDD worked well. Both HDD and SDD are installed win 10. Please help me fix this error. “ sorry my English not good”, thanks for all suggestion and helping!
Installed the new ssd & ram bios recognizes new ssd in legacy but not boot manager. I did a media recovery on a usb and tried to reinstall windows on new ssd got some errors cannot get it to boot from new ssd only the 32gb hd. Unplugged 32 tried again and shows no bootable device. What the heck do I do now? I can get it to run fine off the 32 and set everything to store to the new ssd but the 32 is pretty full and I would rather not have it on there at all. Do I need to get new Windows recovery media:( I am not at all very savvy with the programming part. This laptop was already set up so it has not quite worked out the way yours did. Any help would be much appreciated:)
Anyone knows what's the thing with the single channel, I don't understand, in other RUclips video, the guy put 16 gb of ram, but then he said that as the motherboard was single channel just 8 gb going to perform better, so what's up? Doesn't work? Or work under performance?.... Or just is a waste of money put 16 gb of ram?
thanks for the great video and instruction. i'm not a computer person, but am going to attempt. at the end of the video you said to install some drivers (audio,video,touchpad). how do I know which ones are needed? I see many on the hp site. thanks again
Great video. I followed this until you buttoned it up. Did you disconnect the EMMC drive? The reason I ask is I can't get the BIOS to recognize the new hard drive that I've installed win10 onto. It doesn't show up in the BIOS boot os drive to select to boot off of. How did you install win10 onto the hard drive? Thanks DAve
I mention this in the video I think - this is a weird BIOS...first one I've ever seen not show a new drive while editing the BIOS...but then it shows up during the Windows install. No idea how that could happen but it did for me. I didn't see in the BIOS either and decided to just start the Windows install and see if it showed up...sure enough.
...just as an update...my kids (ages 6 and 9) have been using these everyday since christmas - not a single problem and the performance is great for what they are doing - watching RUclips, Netflix and playing Roblox and Minecraft. They both love them.
I'm wondering why you took the original sticks of memory into the laptops, there isn't any dual channel memory so why not letting them in ? It's always extra ram :)
maybe its because i have a diferent one (the hp notebook 14-am023nf) but roblox doesnt run well
my daughter wants it for the same exact thing haha
Is this laptop still alive? Btw great video, I got my laptop upgraded
Please take a bow. My girl got one on sale. It kept running out of space so I had her bring it over. 30GB. Really? Being a long time IT guy I hate doing this stuff in my off time. Being a server guy, I doubly dislike messing with laptops. This was an enormous help.
Thom MacIntyre good deal...you're welcome...
I prefer my HP DV6-7213nr that has been upgraded from 4gb to 8gb of DDR3 and has a AMD A4 along with a partially metal build
@@trionic5 late reply lol but i have a hp laptop with a AMD A4 and i just upgraded the ram from 4 to 8 and the performance update from that itself is like night and day
Just in case anybody's still trying to fix these things -- my wife has had one of these for a couple of years and got to the point where doing Windows updates was impossible. I just finished installing a 500G Samsung SSD, and everything seems to be working great. Here's what I did. I didn't mess with the bios at all. I put the new SSD in an external case I had (although I assume it would have worked just as well starting out by mounting it internally using the connector from the CD caddy). I used Clonezilla (booted from a USB thumb drive) to do a full disc clone from the 32G internal SSD to the new 500G SSD. Then I shut down the machine, installed the SSD internally, and unplugged the cable for the old 32G internal drive. At that point, it booted happily from the large SSD, but because of the disk-to-disk cloning, the main partition was still only 27G on the new drive (leaving tons of unallocated space). So lastly, I used DISKPART to delete the recovery partition on the new SSD, which then enabled me to expand the C drive (using the Windows disk manager) to use the rest of the space on the SSD. Right now, it's grinding through all of the windows updates it couldn't do with the small SSD.
Of course only "Windows Boot Manager" shows up, since you don't have another FAT32 device with an EFI folder. What you should've done is keep legacy support disabled, use Rufus to create a Windows UEFI USB, connect the USB drive before turning on the PC, then select the installer USB which would've run in native UEFI mode instead of BIOS emulation. Delete all partitions on the internal SSD and install Windows on the unallocated space on the new one to let it create the ESP on the new drive automatically.
There are many reasons why native UEFI is better than BIOS emulation.
Thank you this is what I did and I was wondering about the legacy support disable. Thank you for answering that for me!
Hey I just bought a HP Refurbished 14-an013nr from Walmart for 150 bucks put a 8 gig stick of memory in it now have 12gigs of memory,Put in a 256 Gb Crucial SSD drive it works great I now have a fast computer for all my RUclips HD viewing.
Thank you very much for this video, it made my job a lot easier. I did some mods though that might help. The tray supplied by Amazon fits perfectly in the computer case. I found no need to remove the adapter and tape in the drive. Made the installation much cleaner, and is a solid mount that I don't have to worry about the drive coming lose. Also, by initializing the drive as letter D: and reassigning the libraries to D:, I was able to leave the operating system on C: and now as long as the customer stores their data in the proper libraries, C: should not run out of room. Thanks again, gave me some great ideas for future projects.
Thank you so much for this video. I was starting to give up hope on this laptop due to the internal HDD limitations, but now I can give it a 2nd life that it deserves.
good to hear - we've been pretty happy with ours - handling the kids just fine.
Reviews of his have sold me on it for my 11 year old for her school laptop. I'm buying it on Amazon with a 64gb mini USB drive, but upgrading that SSD is definitely on my docket. Thanks for the good video instruction. Saved for later.
Good video, but I recommend you keep the 32g drive, make it bootable and secondary and put all the windows installers and drivers on it as a restore drive. My kids are horrible on computers, and I'm always reimaging our drives.
Did anyone notice that he was doing the video on a pool table?
lol what does that have to do with anything?
Ken Lince I just wanted to point it out :/ It seemed a wierd and uncomfortable place to do a job like this…
why would that be weird and uncomfortable? it's a giant table...great workspace.
Ken Lince Because it's soft on the edges?
Tutoriale și jocuri interesante this is weird man...I'm not even touching or using the edges and the table itself is a piece of slate with speed felt...it's a perfect work surface for this job...
Just make sure to use both RAM slots to enable dual-channel mode and you're golden.
Just as an update, I have been using my laptop everyday after doing this. As a Computer Science major, this works well for what assignments I need to get done(unless I am working with virtual box). Aside from that it works fine, even tried some small games I bought from steam.
...same here my kids love theirs - they spend a lot of time on minecraft and roblox as well as Netflix...
This laptop wont work well with virtual box? I would think with the SSD upgrade done in this VID and the 8gb of ram would upgrade this quite a lot..? I was thinking that running a low cpu/ram intensive virtual box system (wins7 32-bit w/ a few special programs) would work no problem. But maybe i was wrong? What should i look for in a laptop spec's to see how well it can be used as a virtual box compatible laptop, for once and a while use?
Thanks for the video. I successfully upgraded my HP 14-an013nr. I ordered an Aireye ssd and installed it with a caddy (no velcro) because it lined up perfectly to plug in and when I installed the backing or bottom, it seemed to actually lock in the caddy so it can't move. The software work was tricky as I first used MiniTool/Partician Wizard with limited success then after reformatting the drive, I retried with Macrium. That worked really well (help from a tech blog). For now, I disable the drive in Computer Manager / Device Management because I could not find that option in the BIOS. Maybe later I'll activate the drive and use it but for now, it will remain unused and ready with the operating system in case of emergency. Because of your video and another's, I was able to do this upgrade. THANK YOU!!!
Danny G thanks..glad you got it working...
Danny G Link to the caddy? I was thinking of doing this for my younger brother and having a caddy that just fits sounds awesome.
Look for this caddy on Amazon: HIGHROCK Hard Drive Caddy Tray 9.5mm Universal SATA 2nd HDD HD SSD Enclosure Hard Drive Caddy Case Tray, for 9.5mm Laptop CD / DVD-ROM Optical Bay Drive Slot (for SSD and HDD). Its costs $7.99
Lance, you should know that I did open the computer back up to make sure the drive was secure and to check my RAM as I forgot to when first opened. When I was in there a second time, I did use a velcro dot to help secure the drive and I kept it in the caddy as it fit pretty well when the cover was closed and secured.
How did you get the board off the caddy? When I got the highrock caddy, it was riveted on and the board snapped when i tried to remove it.
I Was really angry when i realised mine when i realised it only had 30gb space. thanks now i will ask the local hardware shop to assist me
Thank you very much. It took me about 3-4 days for watching and understanding your videos, installing an SSD, and configuring drives. the 32 GB original drive didn't have enough space for Win upgrade, factory reset or creating an install USD drive. I used other laptop to create the USB install drive.
This was my first ever upgrade. I think HP shouldn't have sold this with a 32 GB drive. After having poor two quality laptops (dead in 13 months, and this, I never buy an HP again.
yes, a 32GB drive in this thing is really dumb. The OS and the built-in installer files takes up 90% of the available space...there's no space to install anything else. Glad the video helped.
Thanks again. With your help, Now I have a 32GB eMMC drive (D:) for backup or something
Helped a Lot!!! Followed the steps and am Good!.. Kudos to you Man!
Thanks for the video. I am going to dive in and buy this laptop.
Hopefully, should be able to pull off all required steps.
Did this work for work you? If so, did did you use the hp recovery media?
good deal - hope it worked for you.
I am facing issues. I installed SSD and I can see it in my win 10 disk mgmt as unallocated.
I created win 10 iso on pen drive. Then changes bios legacy support to enabled. Now, when I boot and select by pen drive I get a oragne white stripes:-
similar to one posted here : superuser.com/questions/533360/windows-8-shows-orange-screen-with-white-stripes-on-boot
I dont what to do. I am stuck. Please help.
UPDATE: After investigation, I fixed it. Turns out that my USB installation drive downloaded from MSDN was corrupted.
Can you tell me the parts you used to convert this, the ram stick, the caddy plug for SSDI to the drive and SSDI drive to use, thanks.js
its all in the description.
You could have used the 32 Gb disk as a recovery drive or backup drive.
I could have used it for a lot of things...again, I was giving this to my kids so to keep things simple I disabled it...the SSD I put in has more storage than they could ever possibly use so there was no need.
The 32 was configured from the factory to handle the cache, not to be used as a hard drive
Ken Lince I whent through 1tb hdd in a month (me and school work plus light gaming lol)
@@walldoo99 It's shit for cache, way too slow.
According to Crucial, you can use both ram slots for a total of 16gb/RAM. Just sayin'
Crucial told me the motherboard supports a max of 8GB. So u can only add 4GB to it. I wish someone could confirm what's the right answer here.
@@mustafaahsan1999 This is from Kingston:
www.kingstonmemoryshop.co.uk/laptop/hp/hp-14-an013nr-laptop
There is someone on HP forums who says his has 16gb also.
@@dragunovbushcraft152 thank you for the response. Did u decide to upgrade to 16GB? if yes, how was the performance?
@@mustafaahsan1999 16gb isn't necessary for the weak processor, and I actually upgraded one of these for a family member. Difference in my upgrade, is I removed the "drive" from it's case, but installed it the same way.
I installed 8/RAM. The only difference between 8gb, and 16gb in this machine, is when using it on-line. You'll be able to open pages a little faster. Not fast enough to spend the extra Ducket$.
3:19
"Real carefully"
*CRACK*
*BANG*
*WAPOOSH*
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In a country where everything is sold at a price of "burned matchstick" do not worry about those details !!
This is a great video!
For at least Samsung SSDs, you can avoid the pain and stress of OS and data migration described here with a free tool from Samsung, called "Data Migration Tool" or something like that. I did not check, but I wouldn't be surprised if other SSD manufacturers have similar tools. The documentation that comes with the Samsung tool states that it doesn't work with other manufacturers' SSDs. So check with the manufacturer of your SSD before you spend money on a migration tool.
Bought two of these on Groupon. I was even going to buy 2 more this month, but hard drive space would make it difficult if not impossible to do the latest windows security updates. I bought them for around 130 on Groupon I think. That's still an awesome price.
Another alternative is to install Linux, get a 64 bit edition, (Lubuntu is what I use), through the USB drive, take the option to make the entire HD a Linux. Download VirtualBox. Take out your old Window XP O/S CD out. Get an external DVD-RW hooked up. Allocate to the new O/S about 256 MB or the 2 GB RAM. Lubuntu runs super on 1,750, and XP runs super on 256 MB. Make the Hard Drive folder around 1 TB for Windows XP. Put all your older Windows programs on the Windows XP VirtualBox. Update to latest SP3, Browser, ETC. What you will have is a super Internet with Lubuntu, and your old Microsoft versions. You are only going to use this for Internet surfing at McDonalds, but this is all for free, except for the time.
I did this with a Toshiba, Celeron, 2 GB, 32 GB, clearance $105.00, installed XP...OK...I am a little weird, I also installed Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0, but it works perfect.
First off, thanks so much for this very informative video and links Ken!
One thing to note, the HP docs linked above seem to be a little out of date as on page 66 where they talk about creating the recovery media it talks about it seems to imply that it can only create DVDs, but when I went to do it just now it just told me to pop in a 8GB USB (mine size) and that it would format it and it's creating the recovery drive on it as I type...
Laid back, informative, and very useful...great job!
I just purchased this laptop for college, and I found out that using this method of connecting the disk drive to the optical drive port causes some slowdown and confusing windows issues since it is on the optical disc drive sata port. I would recommend using a ribbon cable that takes the 10pin signal and converts it to a sata connector. This is actually a common upgrade for HP Envy laptops. It has also been tested on the HP Stream and appears to work just fine. Here is the link to the cable in question. www.amazon.com/Drive-Connector-Cable-6017B0421601-Short/dp/B01M6E4I7R/
techguy348: hello, do you think its possible to take out the emmc hdd and put in not 1 but 2 ssd drives? Using your cable method and also his bracket method for the optical slot? I just bought this laptop and it looks like theres enough room just very cramped. (With some minor cutting or modding of course)
I think it would be impossible due to the space constraints...
I have my hard drive at a diagonal angle, and adhered down with some double sided foam tape
techguy348, yea i think you're right. Almost no room. Anyway thank you for the reply.
techguy348: i went ahead and bought that cable and a new ssd drive. I will do a fresh windows install and hope that the repsonse times are faster. The built in emmc drive just seems to take forever to load even with youtube videos. Hopefully this all works out. Thank you for the advice( also plan on upgrading the 4gb ram later in a couple months)
I have bought a laptop with gt 840m 2gb, 500gb hdd, core i3 4005u (its a lenovo) for 263 euros/ 289,99 dollars. It was refurbished but a nice machine for the money!
I would so go for a refurbished Lenovo (and have, and am about to do it again for a second laptop) over one of these cheap HP deals, no hate towards the person who made this video (obviously it's helped a lot of people get cheap computers) but I can't stand low end HP laptops.
But can it run crisis?
I found the easiest way to upgrade this was to sell it less than a year after buying it. My sister bought this on a cyber monday sale last year and it's so cheaply made. Then we find out her brand spanking new HP laptop doesn't even have a dual band wifi card and we have a dual band router. Really, no dual band and a 10 year old lenovo can see the 5g transmitter? Just another reason I HATE HP. I flip laptops and I deal mostly in Lenovo business class and I found the perfect laptop for her, the lenovo Edge 15 with the backlit keyboar. She stole that from me so I sold her HP cheap
It's not a hard disk drive. The storage found in that laptop is cheap eMMC storage, which you can also find in older high-end/newer mid-range phones and tablets. You could say HDD but an HDD would almost perform better here....
Thanks for sharing Ken. I got 2 kids and this laptop seem to be a charm for them.
awesome - glad to hear it!
Great video. It gave me the courage to upgrande mine!
thanks for the video. it saved me from a few good sized mistakes. for me, the whole HDD caddy fit perfect. it appears as if it will not however, looking at the bottom plate cover closely , one of the dividers is shorter... so it holds the caddy down.
Just for GP, I did use a small strip of Velcro on the caddy.
as far as the eMMC drive, after I got windows installed, i just took one end of the ribbon loose from the mother board.
The restore USB kept loading to it instead of the new drive. disconnecting it resolved that problem.
THANKS AGAIN!
PRO TIP: Since you are leaving the M2 drive in, you can steal one of HP's good ideas and turn it into a recovery partition. All you need is a Windows ISO and a program called EasyBCD. If you are really good, you can put the drivers in there as well, but that's a whole discussion of it's own.
from what i've experienced, the dvd drive has a screw (port?) that comes off next to where the connection is and you add it to the dvd drive adapter. and it gets installed when you put the laptop back together and one of the screw holes hold the drive in place. I've done this to a laptop i have.
Honestly considering buying one of these to have as a backup / programming machine. I am a Mac user and don't have good luck programming with mac unfortunately
...you should be fine with it for that. I've been pretty impressed with them thus far for the amount spent. My kids beat them up and they are still ticking...no problems. Definitely worth the upgrades though...
According to the docs I found you can max this out at 16 gigs of memory. I hear some say it will only take 8 gigs. I'm confused since HP said 16 max.
5:09 what is that thing called to connect the drive
What is the highest hard drive this thing will take? and what is the largest Ram upgrade this thing will take? Are the laptops still working? great video by the way
i bought a similar one at frys electronics, gave me 500GB of disk space
The short answer is 8GB. The easy answer is 8GB on one module - if you don't have time to open the case before you order. The expanded answer is that the memory controller is built into the CPU and Intel capped this Celeron at 8GB of total system RAM. The on chip memory controller has 2 memory access channels (I checked - good news) but some of these HP Stream 14's come with motherboards that only have one memory slot soldered on the board - which has a place for it but the 2nd plastic socket was left off). Because of dual channel memory access, a 4GB + 4GB (two 4GB modules for 8GB total bought as a matched pair) would be best. But if the board is one of the unlucky ones with just one plastic slot, a single 8GB module is the only way you can go.
Do you have a link for the SSD connector you used? Or does it come with the laptop?
I was wondering where you can get one. The one I have does not come with the connector though.
I see you say start from scratch but how did you get the windows back on? Did you use the same serial number from the 32 GB drive?
I'm working on a similar HP laptop for some friends, which also kept running out of space. This video has been a great help, so thank you. Does Windows automatically re-activate itself from the BIOS? My friends do not have a code, and their retailer told them this.
Would be cool if this was done to the 11-y020nr (with Celeron processor).
All that one lacks is SSD space.
nice video dude, would you happen to know the maximum read and write speed? and would I be able to run my OS off a hard drive like this if I wanted to ditch the emmc completely?
I’ve been looking on how to do this man, thank you!!!!
Hello,
We can also use the hdd in emmc of 32gb, and create a recovery partition, or a restore point of the system.
I'm looking at doing this to this exact model laptop. Thank you so much for this comprehensive walkthrough!
the laptop alone is $350 before tax all on it's own! can the price change that extremely over the course of two years?!? and isn't the price supposed to go down over time as the technology ages, not become more expensive?
Once you have spent extra money to upgrade the ssd and ram, wouldn’t it be more cost efficient to buy a better laptop with that extra capability already installed? Or possibly a late model second hand one but swap out an older tech hdd for a new ssd?
Hi- was so excited to see this. Bought all stuff. Found your walk through on bios and need to have usb boot drive was a little slim. Did amazon prime now to get usb to save media and boot.... didn’t work. Nor seeing 120 SSI. Windows on 32stock SSI and nice 32 g Samsung usb. You still out there? Can’t imagine drives and allocated spaces issues to come....you are anyone with advice to finish this?? So disappointed.....
will this process work for the 14-ax030wm...?. .storage and ram ive been told are soldered to the motherboard.. thank you
didnt understand the reason for a usb stick? i have upgraded laptop with ssd and memory, how to boot i dont understand
Ken thank you i will subscribe this really did help me no other guy really did this the way you did good job.
thanks - glad it helped.
Thats awesome. This should work for a 14-bw065nr as well?
Great information. I just bought this model and and am about to add more storage and I have a couple questions.1) you are connecting the 2.5" SSD to the DVD SATA connector rather than the hard drive SATA connector (which is what the stock 32GB eMMC is connected to). This may be the reason the drive does not show up in the BIOS. Also I believe the DVD port uses the simpler IDE commands rather than the higher performance ahci mode. Do you think you are loosing any performance because of this? Why not install the SSD in place of the 32GB eMMC module as HP intended using part 815139 001?2) Why didn't you add a 4GB memory to the existing system to get 8GB?Thanks for your help.
Todd Sing Could you please list the part you used please or place a link to the cable? Thanks.
After you installed windows to the ssd and rebooted did you have to change the boot order if so did you then see the new drive in the bios? I have done a similar mod to a hp stream 14 which has the 32gb eMMc on the main motherboard although i had use an adapter connected to the wifi port but it just gave me no bootable device even though windows finds it no problem.
Can i add ssd and leave my old hdd to laptop? I have the same laptop as you.
Hello, I could use some help. I got all the way through until it was time to boot up with F9 and select my new drive. It showed up as the third option, like yours, but when I select it I keep getting the message “No bootable device-insert boot disk and press any key”. I figure I must have installed it correctly for it to show up as an option? Any advice? Thank you!
Great video. Thank you for posting.
this is an updated HD Kingston A400 SSD 120GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive SA400S37/120G - Increase Performance
Ken Great Video, Did you have to buy another Microsoft Windows 10 key?? Or did the the laptop have the key on it so you could use that when you installed Windows Thanks!!!
I already had another key so doing a complete reinstall worked for me.
Hi,
Just now i asked to the consumer support people, they said that we can't upgrade the storage of hp 14-an013nr.
Y those said like this?
I recently purchased this laptop and then cloned and installed a 250G SSD, but didn't realize that windows hadn't installed all updates. Problem is that there isn't enough drive space on the 32G drive to complete the updates. How should I proceed??
Hello, could i install a single Crucial 16GB Single DDR3L 204-Pin SODIMM Memory in that laptop , would it work? thank you in advance.....
Did u ever try this?
Great video! I have the HP 14-an012nr. Do you know if this video work for that model, too?
They are the technically the same model just release different dates, I realise that this was posted 2 years ago but I was just scrolling through the comments and found yours
When you told the system to boot to the USB, did you have Windows preloaded onto a USB drive?
correct. I had an ISO image (a file based version of a DVD) of Windows 10 so I used this tool to create a bootable Windows 10 USB key. www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
Even though its probably not worth it, is it upgradable to 16gb?
Thank you you saved my laptop. Now i have a 480GB SSD but i ruined the rubber feet on top of the screws. Anyone know where to find replacements? Sucks to not have them as it scratches the bottom. I know, cheap laptop, but I like to take care of my stuff. Thanks!
And his laptop looks like mine but with no Hard drive in it just the m.2 sata SSD that's 128 gb. I was hoping it had a HD to be able to clone stuff on a bigger m.2 storage. I don't know if you removed the CD drive and put a hardrive in place of it but if that works I'm trying it.
Sad ssd prices haven't still decreased
i put off my hp 14-an013nr for three days and now am putting it, it nt booting. pls help me
Yeah I've tried upgrading and idk what to do now lol. Plugged in SSD and nothing happens. Hard drive space is full and it doesnt let me set anything up. Not on a USB not on ssd
You never showed hooking up the SATA ssd drive to the system.
Ken, would you mind giving a brief step-by-step for using the backup tool mentioned in the comments?
I didn't use it. It's in the manual on how to do it. It basically creates a bootable USB thumbdrive that allows you to restore the machine should you need to. All the OEM's include the OS install files on a recovery partition in lieu of shipping DVD's, etc... to save costs. So, it's up to you to make the disk. Again, I didn't do it so I don't have any instructions on it.
I hear the only bad thing about this laptop is the horribly short battery life of around 2-3hrs max.
Hello, I have already installed a 500 GB HDD thanks to your video, buy a caddy and install it, now I have another problem, I would like to change the SDD for another HDT of 1 TB, my question is if in the space of 32 that They bring them normally I could put an HDD ?? Thank you!!!
What is this connector thing for the SSD drive? Was it included in that frame that doesn't work? Can I get it separately?
look on www.newegg.com they had everything I needed.
Thank you for making this video. Are there 2 memory slots or 1? I noticed in another amazon review that the person said they upgraded to 8gb via 4gb x 2. I was just wondering if I could just buy 1 4gb and use the existing 4gb.
I checked the manual (in the description above there's a link) and it looks like it does support 4GB x 2 configurations. It would not however support a 8GB + 4GB combo (total of 12GB) it's pretty specific on what it can handle.
Supports up to 16 GB of system RAM in the following
conƭgurations
● 8192-MB total system memory (8192×1) or
(4096×2)
● 6144-MB total system memory (4096×1)
+ (2048×1)
● 4096-MB total system memory (4096×1) or
(2048×2)
● 2048-MB total system memory (2048×1)
Think you're missing a line there Ken:
Supports up to 16 GB of system RAM in the following
conƭgurations
● 8192-MB total system memory (8192×1) or
(4096×2)
● 6144-MB total system memory (4096×1)
+ (2048×1)
● 4096-MB total system memory (4096×1) or
(2048×2)
● 2048-MB total system memory (2048×1)
● 16384-MB total system memory (8192×2)
from p2 of h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05227925 fyi
Yes, but at the bottom of page 1 you can see that there are checkboxes for Discrete graphics, UMA graphics, UMA, onboard mem eMMC, UMA onboard mem, HP 245 G5, and "onboard mem eMMC" (which I believe corresponds to the 14-an013nr) does *not* have a checkmark. So those bullets may not (probably don't) apply.
That is some seriously shitty documentation HP's got there...
Would be great to know what RAM configs have been confirmed to work by users. Looks like we have single 4GB and single 8GB. Anyone got 4GB + 4GB working?
There are 2 memory slots. I bought one 4 gb memory and put it in the second slot to make it total 8 gb. My new 4GB one is Crucial, different brand from the existing HP memory but it seems to work perfectly fine. I also added 240 gb SATA drive and now it’s a great computer!
@@pushdam So 4gb x2 worked for you? That's a huge relief. I bought another 4gb but then I heard it won't work so I was panicking.
Bruv I got this for 50 bucks at Walmart
This is the exact same computer that I have. Perfect!
Great and extremely helpful video, i'm trying to figure out... if I have Linux on a USB 3.0 and run it from there, is it potentially faster than loading the Linux OS onto the built in 32GB SSD, or on an additional SSD drive that can be installed the way you did? Just trying to see which is more responsive as far as read/write speeds (faster bus speed?) and I cant seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. I don't care about the current windows install on it, so I could overwrite it with a permanent install of Linux on the built in SSD, if that's the best way to go. Thanks for this great vid!
If you running a live version of Linux of a flash drive it loads it into ram so it will run fast , you must run a persistent drive on glad if you want to save data, it will ask you. Some nice small Linux is Tinylinux and puppy Linux.
Hi, I have hp 14-bp0xx
It comes with a SSD but I am wanting to add a second HDD that I have laying around. I've taken a look and there is space to add a 2.5" HDD, just wondering if you could help me out with what cables/enclosures I would need to get it working?
There's is space for a HDD but I can't see where to connect the drive.
I have two of these for my twin 12 yr olds. I have watched your video and have done all the same upgrades. Great! And thanks!
I have one specific question:
For fun, I put the leftover 4 GB ram stick into the second dimm slot in both laptops and the bios "recognized" it as 12gb. So, is this actually the case or is the bios giving me wrong information? And if I leave the 4 GB stick in, will effect performance?
Would really appreciate your input! Thanks...
Oops...will it affect performance😎?
Can i put a 2.5 Notebook HDD instead of SSD?
Sourav Bhowmick same question pls help
The HP 14 64GB Laptop is the worstest design is better to replace the 64GB Hard Drive to a 1TB
I've been looking for a similarly upgradeable 2in1 laptop I could upgrade, since I do a lot of graphics work. Any suggestions?
Avoid HP at all cost. Even a Dell would be better. Way less work to upgrade. These laptops are practically disposable. If you want a cheaper laptop, look into the lower end Lenovo. If you are doing graphics, save your money for a decent i7 based laptop with a dedicated graphics card. You'll still want to upgrade to an SSD. Spend the money on a good machine rather than a cheap laptop like this. You will regret owning one of these. Too slow for what you're using it.
@austin pilot did you use a different frequency (mhz)?
I have a simple question? after doing all the upgrades, would it have not made more sense to buy a laptop with all these things built in? I,m on the fence about buying this laptop. With the upgrades, would it not make sense to buy a laptop with all this stuff? Just asking.....Or would a laptop with all these upgrades be so much more? The prices have gone up on all these upgrades by the way.
usually laptop sold with ssd and 8gb of ram are much more expensive...they tend to have a better CPU and are usually ultrabook and with better quality build...
this one happen to be easy to open and upgrade, has fullhd monitor and is really cheap...it looks like with under 300 dollars you can have a great and fast machine for normal tasks..Of course it's not good for heavy task that depends on processor but for everything else looks fantastic
I had a cpu that just stopped holding charge . I think the motherboard got messy up. So I got this laptop past down from my sister. Can I just take the ssd and the hard rive from my old one and do the same?
6:05 how do i know if my board is a single channel board?
As you mentioned, the caddy enclosure is useless. In this case can we not connect the SSD drive directly or do we necessary need the interface? If yes, what ssd interface should I purchase?
You need an adapter to convert 13 pin SATA (which is what typical notebook CD rom drives use), to 22 pin SATA (which is what SSD drives have). This caddy is a cheap way to get such an adapter in the right form factor. You could probably find other 13 to 22 pin SATA converters (which is what I think you mean by "interface"), but most likely they will not fit inside this laptop.
If my screen turn black after installing new ram, what should I do?
Hello can you tell me where I can get that adaptor for the hard drive. Can you provide it
When you did a clean install of windows 10 on this pc did you get rid of all the bloatware that hp preinstalled? How did you get back all the HP esential software that you needed to let the laptop run properly? Tried cloning and did not go so well, so it looks like I might have to go the clean install route. I just want to make sure that by instaling a fresh windows 10 copy I will not be missing any vital hp files. Thanks in advance.🙏
with the latest builds of windows 10, all drivers, etc... are PnP. You shouldn't have to install anything specific from HP to get proper video, audio, chipset drivers, etc...
@@KenLince Thanks. I did notice that, so does that mean I can completely format that 32 emcc and if I need to reinstall windows in the future I should get the same results? What does PNP mean? Thanks again for all your responses🙏
@@lt5550 PNP = plug and play. The problem with the 32GB embedded drive is that it includes all of the recovery partition files required to completely reinstall the system. That takes up gigs of space and is partially the reason why right out of the box you almost have a completely unusable system because there's no storage space left for any apps. If you completely reformat that you'll lose the recovery partition. But, you don't really have to worry about drivers and such - those are plug and play - i didn't have to install any additional video/audio, etc... to get everything working .
I have a laptop hp 15 ac 021tx and my problem is that I changed ssd wd green 240gb in HDD bay, it worked well. However, the HDD 1TB put in caddy bay could not be recognized in bios or win10. I uninstall SSD and using only HDD in caddy bay, in this case, HDD worked well. Both HDD and SDD are installed win 10. Please help me fix this error. “ sorry my English not good”, thanks for all suggestion and helping!
Installed the new ssd & ram bios recognizes new ssd in legacy but not boot manager. I did a media recovery on a usb and tried to reinstall windows on new ssd got some errors cannot get it to boot from new ssd only the 32gb hd. Unplugged 32 tried again and shows no bootable device. What the heck do I do now? I can get it to run fine off the 32 and set everything to store to the new ssd but the 32 is pretty full and I would rather not have it on there at all. Do I need to get new Windows recovery media:( I am not at all very savvy with the programming part. This laptop was already set up so it has not quite worked out the way yours did. Any help would be much appreciated:)
Anyone knows what's the thing with the single channel, I don't understand, in other RUclips video, the guy put 16 gb of ram, but then he said that as the motherboard was single channel just 8 gb going to perform better, so what's up? Doesn't work? Or work under performance?.... Or just is a waste of money put 16 gb of ram?
thanks for the great video and instruction. i'm not a computer person, but am going to attempt. at the end of the video you said to install some drivers (audio,video,touchpad). how do I know which ones are needed? I see many on the hp site. thanks again
you're welcome - on the hp support site just type in this model number and it will come up.
Great video. I followed this until you buttoned it up. Did you disconnect the EMMC drive? The reason I ask is I can't get the BIOS to recognize the new hard drive that I've installed win10 onto. It doesn't show up in the BIOS boot os drive to select to boot off of. How did you install win10 onto the hard drive? Thanks DAve
I mention this in the video I think - this is a weird BIOS...first one I've ever seen not show a new drive while editing the BIOS...but then it shows up during the Windows install. No idea how that could happen but it did for me. I didn't see in the BIOS either and decided to just start the Windows install and see if it showed up...sure enough.
Nice. Thanks a million