“Can I take a hard drive I have in my current computer (it was added as an extra) and switch it to this computer?”

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• I suggest you more simply try a Seagate external drive, 2 TB just $60 and 100% portable. Just copy all your content to the Seagate

  Answered by Agustin 6 years ago

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• If it was added as an extra, I assume that means it was extra storage capacity and NOT the C: (the local drive where the operating system is). So, my answer is that it should be no problem and after installing it, when next booted, the O.S. will recognize new hardware and configure it automatically. Especially if both are Windows 10 machines. Do your own homework. Look for many sources of info to check for possible issues.

  Answered by meme 6 years ago

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• This computer's hard drive is a 256 GB PCIe NVMe solid state drive. This type of hard drive resembles a RAM stick. Instead of the contacts being on the long end, the contacts will be on the short side. There are 2 expansion slots but they are both M.2 slots. One is for the WLAN and the other is for the M.2 solid state drive.

  Answered by HP Team 6 years ago

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