How to install M.2 SSD in HP 17.3" Laptop that has a Hard Drive. Model 17-by2053cl

[@HangingWithDan]

I had recently gotten this laptop for my dad and replaced his 1TB hdd for a 1TB ssd. Thank You for the tutorial! I love repair and upgrade videos! If anyone wants a good software to use for cloning your data from an hdd to an ssd, then I would suggest you get Macrium Reflect.👍

[@JerryKaczur]

Dale - perfect video for installing hard drives, batteries on the 17" HP models... Thank you!

[@markbivens131]

I updated my old HP 17.3 dv7 and put in a 2tb ssd and more ram to and put in Windows 10. Works so much. better.

[@davebone8326]

Nice job , I always buy 17.3 " laptops big screens are good for media.

[@paulwarner5395]

Agreed. Getting hard to come by now.

[@chandra3115]

Many thanks for the video showing each and everything in the simplest possible way. It really helped to make my 2-year unused off-shelf laptop to make it as brand new. Now, it works like a new laptop. Many many thanks!

[@aimbotaang5021]

Keep up the great work Mr.Dale

[@yambo59]

I like your demeaner and helpful attitude, theres a laptop repair place in my town in Illinois and they are real jerks, talk to you like you owe them for every second youre speaking to them and wont even discuss your concerns or requirements just ask what you want grab your computer and snub you like youre just too much trouble -- I only went there once and after seeing their attitude I took my laptop back told them they were jerks and left. Then I came home watched some videos like yours and just did it all myself, they did me a favor in the long run as I can now do most of this stuff myself and not pay jerks like them and just subbed to your channel.

[@rayzorwood905]

Thanks for the video, I'm currently upgrading my father's laptop to a new NVMe and I was looking all around the board for the damn slot and completely missed it. Talk about hiding in plain sight.

[@jepolch]

Great video. I decided to buy an HP 17-CP0025CL laptop after watching your video to see how to replace the HDD. Thanks!

[@jeffme6891]

I just added a 500gb PCI NVME drive to my HP 17-CN1053CL . Had to disconnect the hard drive after cloning it so the bios would boot from the new SSD. After the first boot I was able to reconnect the hard disk and after the Bios reset, the system booted from the SSD. In a few days, I will format the hard disk and use it for storage, It’s been a long time since I owned an HP anything they are better now but still do some wired stuff. Couldn't resist the sub $400 price for a beautifully refurbished unit

[@adiposerex5150]

Thanks for the video. I love repairs and upgrades.

[@blessedevreyday]

Extremely helpful. I followed this exactly to success. Thanks!

[@davecunningham3653]

glad i saw your video in using the plugable 3.0 to usb adapter for nvme... my favorite tool when i have to clone a nvme ssd thanks

[@125mr]

I just knew you were going to replace that mis-matched ram as it was annoying you so much. Good job 😊

[@ironman10181]

I didn't even know that was an issue, tbh, glad I understand now. That will be the next thing I upgrade.

[@edwinivanvr3018]

Thank you from Bolivia,

[@crispa1861]

Thx so much for sharing this video. Now, I'm confident that I can upgrade the RAM on my HP I just bought yesterday at Amazon. God bless.

[@chandra3115]

If there is any link to donate or buy you a coffee, please share it. Thank you for your work.

[@aimbotaang5021]

Man his videos are the best

[@bruhguy592]

thank you!😀

[@paulwarner5395]

Thanx for another great video. Do you have any preference for a laptop to purchase?? We have 3 HPs here at home but I've heard that Dell and ASUS are better..

[@jimroadhers]

i have a an older sata with win 7....will that fit in my new hp 17 series...great knowledge and easy to understans

[@HangingWithDan]

as long as its a 2.5" SATA drive, then yes you can! It also has an M.2 slot for your NVMe ssd.

[@patshipp9195]

I love my laptop of this same model. Thank you for these videos. ♥♥

[@sidesaber1599]

Amazing! Good job!

[@charleshines1553]

I have the 17-by4062CL and it looks like a very similar laptop to that. I like it so far anyhow. Mine doesn't have an optical drive but I can't remember the last time I ever needed one. All the stuff I ever use is downloadable now and I find it impractical to burn CDs any more unless to play music from them.

[@jerrygriffin1554]

Great, clear video. I have a laptop that looks very much like the one in the video. It's an HP 17-BY0xxx. The supplied Wifi card is an Intel® Wireless‑AC 9461 433Mbps. Is there a newer, faster Wifi card that will fit this laptop? There seems to be several that might fit but they all include incompatibility warnings. Thanks.

[@lee_the_underground_producer]

Omg this computer is GORGEOUS. I'm hoping I can find one of these with a 16 GB at least with a BACKLIT KEYBOARD. 17.3 INCH. with WINDOWS 10

[@480JD]

Snagged a hp i7-by4063cl for $550 refurbed from new egg, had 12gb ram, pulled the 4gb chip, put that in my dads laptop, and added a 16gb stick. Thinking of adding an m.2 SSD for more storage space or clone the harddrive over and pulling the old drive to help save power. Has the Intel Iris graphics which is nice for some light 3D gaming.

[@zenzekezenard4269]

I bought a 17-by2053cl on eBay 12 days ago. $320 w free shipping / no AC adapter, but I have an AC adapter already from other HP lappys. 17-by2053cl also has a cousin (17-by3053cl) that is 95% the same, but with the i5-1035G1 CPU. Both have back lit keyboards and 300 NITS IPS 100% NTSC displays. Verify my info. But I know my 17-by2053cl at home has a back lit keyboard with 2 levels of brightness and the 300 NITS. I am about to install a 500 or 512 or 256 GB NVMe for the Windows 11 boot drive. _________________ 17-by3053cl is on Ebay right now! $299 _______

[@zenzekezenard4269]

@@480JD Leave the 1TB drive in. It will not use power unless you access it, which will not be that often after you install a 256GB or 512GB NVMe. The 1TB drive is good for storing movies and stuff. After installing NVMe do a clean fresh installation of Windows 11 into it. Then wipe the 1TB drive via Windows 11 "disc management" in the NVMe_______ OR >>>> Save all your data off your 1TB drive. Install NVMe drive. THEN when installing Win 11into NVME you can delete all partitions you see that belong to the 1TB drive. These will be the first 3-4 partitions listed. Just delete them..... Then proceed to installing Win 11 onto your NVMe drive.

[@killerdeamonking]

@@zenzekezenard4269 the HDD will use power regardless if you use it cause it has to spin up the platter . It will just use less if not being accessed .

[@canadaman6191]

awesome video but just wanted to tell you cmos is for the time not for the ram and never leave your location on ppl can track you when its on

[@movealongcatdong4685]

Big Daddy D with the upgrafe

[@bobjohnson2172]

Thank you.

[@Tanya6771]

Your video was very helpful! Works perfect!! Thank you so much!

[@zenzekezenard4269]

For this customer I would have done same as you --- NVMe - 8GB -- Clean install though why not Windows 11? But a clean install for sure. No cloning. Transfer data from her old laptop.

[@youaregoingtolovethis]

Clean install would need a license key to activate. Clone no such thing needed and all settings are done.

[@zenzekezenard4269]

@@youaregoingtolovethis Your license key is embedded in the bios BUT #2 and just to be sure.......before doing anything, go find out your license key with the magic jellybean app. Email it to yourself and write it down too. Then do the clean installation. On your new NVMe drive

[@zenzekezenard4269]

@@youaregoingtolovethis The laptop I just did this NVME upgrade on.... I bought it used from eBay. But it was password protected with a Windows 10 installation. So I just installed Windows 11 over it, obviously wiping out the password protected installation. A few weeks later I installed the NVMe drive

[@bignicnrg3856]

Hey Dale love your videos!!! I'm a big fan & new subscriber. I have an HP 17-x173dx 1BQ18UA. I don't don't of gaming but I do a lot of day trading. I wanna use it solely for that. Any recommendations on upgrades to help speed it up? Thanks for your time and any recommendations you can spare!!!

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Hi. The best thing you can do is upgrade to an SSD. EIther a 2.5 inch sata ssd, or m.2 ssd. Very big speed boost.

[@bignicnrg3856]

@@CadillacComputerCenter awesome!!! Thank you for your reply.

[@bignicnrg3856]

@@CadillacComputerCenter Hi Dale. I don't see a m.2 spot.

[@bignicnrg3856]

@@CadillacComputerCenter would I remove the 1tb hard drive for the new ssd? Or have an external? Sorry I'm a newbie

[@bignicnrg3856]

@@CadillacComputerCenter yeah looks like I have a small m2xL4 card

[@harshacs1]

Love the video. 2 questions - 1. Did you have trouble with the No Drives Were Found issue? 2. How did you get Windows on that USB Stick? Did you have to copy the windows key code etc to get this going? Thanks!

[@سعودالتركي-و1س]

Thanks a lot sir. You’ve helped me great deal

[@zenzekezenard4269]

Are all the screws the same size in the back? You can use a hair dryer or heat gun on the rubber strips to loosen them. Thanks! I have a very similar HP that I need to open up to add 8GB memory too. It came with 8 but I like to use 16GB on the internet

[@juanpablocondoch.1766]

Hola ,tengo una hp 15-gw0010wm y quiero saber que memoria m.2 es compatible con mi laptop , de fabrica viene con uno de 128gb m.2 sata, quiero comprarme una de 256gb mvme, crees que soporte mi laptop? Espero tu respuesta.

[@yohancperera2501]

Great work, but laptop screen is not visible

[@luckyhanger1326]

Love your videos, just subscribed to your channel. I just picked up a new HP 15-dy2073dx , great computer but I plan on upgrading the 512 GB NVMe drive, hoping to go to 2 TB. I've got 16 GB of RAM and was hoping to upgrade to 32 GB but cannot find anywhere that states the max memory allowable in this computer. I'm guessing you know if these upgrades are supported.

[@geraldgutsueii3324]

Max RAM is 64GB from what I found

[@awilliamwest]

Just installed a WD Black 2tb into an HP 17-cp1035cl (12GB RAM, 1TB HDD). Afraid I dinged the plastic opening it up, but it seems okay so far. Trying to decide how to clone Windows to the new drive; CloneZilla or DISM? I'll probably try CloneZilla first, but had problems last time I tried that...

[@n_money1019]

I have a Satellite L55-C5272. Is there a way I can install a drive like this to my computer without the need of an adapter? Mine isn’t compatible with an adapter since it has an M key

[@ianevans3063]

About how much does a job like that cost if you don't mind my asking? I'm just curious I want to have the same thing done on mine.

[@barbsanders7343]

My wife has a Model 17-3053cl with only a 1 TB HDD. Does this one also have an empty NVMe slot inside? if so, I will add an NVMe to it.

[@patshipp9195]

If HP made a 23" laptop for a reasonable price I would buy it, my eyes are old.

[@charleshines1553]

You said spam call. What I do is just set my default ringtone to nothing and only put one on people I know. I still see the spammers and other unknown numbers but those ones just won't make any distracting or annoying unwanted noise. Really, almost none ever bother me but the very rare times they do I never have anything even slightly nice to say to them!!

[@oldproji]

I wish you lived near me. You would get my business.

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Thanks man.

[@sampathacharya5148]

Sir can u make up a video on autoclick on screen keyboard problem on laptop

[@Aloha96789]

I don't understand how it activated when you wiped the hard drive prior to the clean install. Doesn't the install need to look for a previous install to see if you qualify?

[@killerdeamonking]

No, the license keys for digital are tied to the hardware IDs of the motherboard, you can wipe the keys in bios.

[@naumansm3]

Hello. I was actually trying something similar but for my hp 14 dk0010ca. The crucial system scanner showed it could take a P2 M.2 NVME drive. I opened it up and saw it had an M.2 solder points in the board but had no socket...I ordered the socket from TE USA and soldered it onto the board. However, when I put in the drive, it doesn't show up in Bios or in Windows. Any ideas ? I contacted crucial and they told me the laptop should support the Crucial P2. I changed the Bios settings to 'Legacy' , turned off secure boot, etc. but it didn't help. The Bios was the latest version but I also downgraded the Bios to the older version and that also didn't work. Any ideas ? Thank you.

[@sarahfisher5719]

I’m in this upgrade situation, but I have a lot of information on the HDD that I want to preserve. Do I need to copy said data off and format the HDD, or is there a better method to do this?

[@Golfexpertbelieveme]

Man mine isn’t going this smooth. I just upgraded to 32gb ram. Then I got a Samsung 2TB 990 name m.2 and it is just all jacked up. Shows up but with smaller space after cloning hdd drive. Won’t show up in my boot stuff. Hp 17 CN0xxxx

[@gabbymain4645]

Hi how to turn on keyboard back light

[@skyblaster7]

The M.2 connector looks to be low profile. Will a double sided NVMe drive fit without flexing? My EX920 drive has fairly large capacitors close to the edge connector.

[@skyblaster7]

I just picked up a 17-by2xxx and can confirm that a single-sided NVMe drive is needed here :(

[@loriwolf4182]

Hi i am wondering if i could put one of the m2 SSD drive in my HP Notebook - 17-by1061 I am going to put some new memory so i have 16gs and wanted to know if you knew so i could order the part set up the flash drive and do it all at once. Thank you. Barley used computer i got injured right after i bought it took it on a cruse then got injured in April 2020 laptop has less than 30 hrs. on it. thank you

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

I can't say for sure if that model has an m.2 slot. You can easily use a 2.5 inch sata ssd though.

[@mamaof6monsters431]

@@CadillacComputerCenter Got it updated new m2 ssd drive and memory, ty

[@480JD]

Can you use this as a drive for applications and a swap file? Leave the OS on the main harddrive?

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Yes. You can.

[@dharmesh4751]

LAPTOP(FX505DT)SSD(M.2) NOT SHOW UP WHILE WINDOWS INSTALLATION HOW TO FIX PROBLEM PLZ PLZ TELL

[@balajiramanathan822]

Is the optical drive on this laptop a 9mm or 9.5mm one? Thank you.

[@CadillacComputerCenter]

Slim type.

[@balajiramanathan822]

@@CadillacComputerCenter OK, thank you very much!

[@josvanriswick7817]

how can one find out what ssd ports are inside these things? It doesnt seem to say on hp's website.

[@480JD]

M.2

[@infiniti37G]

You said a NVME drive is 5 to 7 times faster then a SSD drive and over 20 times faster then a 5400rpm drive. NVME are best for gaming

[@PhreakyPhillip]

I have a HP 17-ca0054cl and everything says I have a NVMe slot for a SSD... even has is printed on the motherboard and has the connectors where the slot would attach to...but there's no damn slot there... nothing! Fortunately I was able to return my Samsung SSD to Amazon... ppppfffftttt!

[@DavidNationSr]

u should use windows 11