Will this hard drive work with an HP Pavillion 15 and does it have a set operating system or do I have to install one? null

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IlaRoswell · Accepted Answer

It will work fine with HP, it does not come with any OS

GadgetGuy · Answer

You need to check your motherboard's specifications to see if it supports M.2 SSD technology. It's cutting edge, so if the computer isn't less than a year old, it most likely doesn't support this technology. As far as the operating system goes, hard drives and SSDs have NEVER included their own operating system. You're buying a blank storage device. You can either install a new copy of your preferred operating system using the installation disks or USB drive, or you can clone your current hard drive and transfer the data to your new device. It's much too in depth to explain the cloning process here, but go to Google.com and look up how to clone a hard drive to a new SSD, and you'll find plenty of articles. If it seems too difficult, or if you're not at least an intermediate computer user, I recommend having someone else with the necessary knowledge install the SSD. There are a few thing that you need to know regarding SATA technology in order to properly configure your hard drives when you install an M.2 SSD, like the Samsung 960 M.2 SSD. I hope this helps and good luck!

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taloshouse · Answer

it will work on any laptop or pc that is sata based, so any pc build in the last decade will work. 
yes you will either have to clone the hard drive to the new ssd drive or install a fresh copy. 
if you dont know how to do either i would suggest either finding a friend that knows what they are doing or pay someone or geek squad to do it.

amyshan · Answer

It's a blank hard drive, so you'll need to install windows on it. It should work with any laptop that uses SATA connections. Will not work for Solid State

Brandongsr · Answer

It does! If your recovery drive isn't corrupted it will require hardly any setup. If not windows installs are super fast and very easy to perform!

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