HP 17.3" Laptop Replace HDD With NEW SSD 

You are a lifesaver, my friend. I have an HP 17-by0061st which is nearly identical. I flipped it over hoping to find a convenient panel like on the Toshibas where you remove a panel and see the hard drive and another panel that you remove and you see the memory. No such luck with the HP. But with the help of your video I was able to replace the hard drive and add RAM.

Thanx for the video Dale. Those 17" laptops are getting harder to find these days. Pity that HP puts screws under the rubber feet.

Turns an old unusable laptop into a device you can actually use for browsing and light load apps. It’s incredible

Thank you, not hard but bit intimidating when you've never done anything like this. With your tool recommendations and walk thru I had no problem replacing ssd and upgrading memory. Thank You

Hi Dale. Thank you so much advising me today on M.2 SSD drives. I really appreciate your help.

Thanks and I loved doing this type of replacement and repair when I was younger. Now, I just go and have it repaired or buy a new one.

Thanks you sir. You made me know that this is possible. I plan to upgrade my HDD to SSD soon. Thanks once again.

Thanks for this video. I am currently researching how much it would cost to have someone do this (some charge by the hour) and this video was very informative. My own hp has gotten slower and doesn't perform that well when gaming.

Thank you for sharing your experience. Helped a bunch 🙂

Everything went perfectly! Thank you!!

Thank you very much, Mr Cadillac, sir!

Just upgraded my Ideapad Touch U430 last night. With a new Ssd, and voice recognition turned off, boot time went from almost 10 minutes to about 1 minute!

Thanks for the bottom panel removal service procedure. I ended up cutting the long rubber feet where the screws are. These rubber feet are probably unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

Great video Dale!

Thanks for the helpful walkthrough!

This is great. Have you ever installed an M.2 into an adaptor as an SSD for a laptop?

Good video; very descriptive. Also there's other free cloning apps you could use (i.e. Aomei Backupper, Macrium Reflect, EaseUS). However, free cloning apps don't always make it easy to clone MBR to GPT format. You mentioned Acronis, which is also my go-to cloning app. Do you use a Linux OS for your Cloning Station?

Very very good video! It helps me a lot. Thanks you! Its the same steps for a 17-by0002ca

So what you show me on this video opening screws of laptop?

I spent 40 years working in electronics, handling circuit boards worth 7-10 thousand dollars. We always worked on a static protection workstation with a grounded work surface. We also never removed a CCA from a static safe bag and/or handled the board without a static protection wrist strap. I cringe when I see people working on sensitive electronics without taking some form of ESD protection.

Sorry for bothering but for this laptop. I want to replace HDD with a new SSD. Can I use M2 SSD or I need a 2.5" Sata SSD

NO Acronis free will NOT make a bootable clone !!! NO 'free" cloning software will !!! I've tried them all multiple times with supplied cloning software from WD, Crucial, and Kingston !!!

Thanks Dale

Great video as always bud!! I did the same thing for my HP after watching one of your older videos. Is it possible to upgrade the wifi card? Thanks

THANK YOU !! I need to do this to my laptop but had NO idea..Chinese to me . Now I know should I close programs before?

Can we see your cloning station setup please?

Nice job.

Hello Dale, I purchased a couple of HP SSD’s to install in my Model: dv7 - 2277cl laptop. Acronis shows a successful clone but when I swap the drives out it says Preparing Automatic Repair" and goes nowhere. I also picked up 16GB of Crucial memory for it and it won’t boot with it installed. Is this thing just too old to upgrade? Love your videos👍 Was hoping this might be an economical way to remedy the S.M.A.R.T error I’ve be getting.

for some reason my laptop doesn't have a connector for the harddrive to connect to the rest of the laptop? It's nearly same make and model. Not sure If I'm missing something obvious or if mine specificaly is junk.

This NB can use M.2, it's good.

Thank you sir.

is ssd 2.5 SATA work with any laptop????

Thank you.

Mac Book Or Windows Laptop Which is good when it comes to working flow and strongest

Im curious to see that cloning machine

I would have installed an NvME SSD in the M.2 socket on the motherboard at the right. Then you could have cloned to the new NvME SSD in situ. After cloning and a successful boot, the old drive could have been reformatted and used for additional data storage. No need to buy an SATA SSD and scrap the HDD.

Hi ! I have Dell Vastro laptop 3578 which comes with this Specifications : CPU : Intel Core i3 7020U RAM : 8GB RAM ( Upgraded from the Exclusive store 4GB TO 8GB 4*2 ) SSD : 256GB. ( Upgraded from the Exclusive store ) HDD : 1TB Toshiba. But the question is the working good but when the system boots up after 15 to 20 mins the system totally laggy I mean if I do documentation then is too lag. I format the windows the 5 times but the issue is same to no changes. I also complain in the Dell but from the company no issue solved so I found your channel as a randomly I searching for the issue your video comes in the suggestions I open I watched this video that's I asked ! You know how to fix this issue ?

I am scared to carry out the replacement. First, my notebook is a dog to open. secondly, I have to find out how to clone the disc.

Thank you for the video. I have a year old hp 17t by400 that is very slow and hp did not want to cover it under warranty 5 months after purchase. I have a lower model (17t by300) as well that is much faster than this one with the same amount of memory etc. So I want to upgrade 1TB 5400 rpm SATA HDD to a SSD. What is compatible for my laptop? It is a intel core i7 (4.7 GH)

They should have went with the M.2 option. Way faster than a SSD. I put one in my PS5. Sooooo much faster now!

How do I know which SSD I can use to upgrade? I’ve got a DV7-4070 with Windows 7.

HelloI need help how about the RAM I need to upgrade the RAM those two chips

Do you do warranty work for these machines Dale

How much would you charge for doing this?

This whole process seems overly convoluted, opening my "Framework 13" laptop takes me less than a minute! On a Framework 13, the top-cover is held in place with 5 easy accessible (captive) screws on the bottom. After loosing the screws, a spring pushes up one corner of the top-cover. The top-cover is further held in place by magnets, instead of those stupid plastic clips... Framework truly build a device, from the standpoint of repair-ability!

I'm stumped just in ordering the part I need. Geek Squad said I should order a 1 BT Digital Hard drive to replace the mechanical one currently in my HP Pavilion 17-CN0023DX Model 668S3UA and I can't figure out which one to buy. Can you help on this issue?

I have hp 17 n152na is it upgradeable to ssd. My hdd have short dst failure

Can u pls do a screen repair on this type of computer I got 2 of them 1 keyboard broken other screen broken can I change the screen on 1 to the other?

what size is that hard drive? do you have a video how you clone that hard drive?

My hard drive failed and I want to replace it with an SSD. How do I reinstall windows?

Thanks but you should have explained and shown everyone the clone process which is critical

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F*** HP for having us remove those bottom glue strips. That's Bull ****

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