Question Solution to HP stream 14 's super small eMMC staorage drive

[Doodythebutler]

I thought i had a neat solution to the extremely low storage capacity the comes in the form of a 32gb eMMC ssd by replacing the wifi adapter with a M.2 to A-type wifi adapter and fitting a 256gb NVme m.2 ssd. When I powered up Windows 10 recognized the drive straight away so then i wanted to move the OS to this drive. Used Minitool Partition Wizard to clone the drive no problem and then entered the BIOS expecting to just change the boot order but that new drive does not seem to appear anywhere in the BIOS. Clearly I can use the drive as storage but what i really wanted was to make it have the OS too so i could avoid the hassle of cleaning it out everytime a big windows update comes.

Can anybody help?

 

[tennis2]

Try just installing Windows10 normally first (no need to enter a key at this time) to confirm the drive is bootable. If so, THEN we can talk about your cloning situation.

 

[Doodythebutler]

Try just installing Windows10 normally first (no need to enter a key at this time) to confirm the drive is bootable. If so, THEN we can talk about your cloning situation.

so loaded windows fresh on the m.2 ssd but notebook say no bootable device tried in uefi and legacy modes

 

[tennis2]

How did you "load windows fresh on the m.2"? Did you install the M.2 in the HP Stream 14 then insert the bootable USB drive that you created using the Windows 10 Installation Media Tool here into the HP Stream 14 to install windows on the M.2 drive?

 

[Doodythebutler]

How did you "load windows fresh on the m.2"? Did you install the M.2 in the HP Stream 14 then insert the bootable USB drive that you created using the Windows 10 Installation Media Tool here into the HP Stream 14 to install windows on the M.2 drive?

Yes that’s exactly what I did and also used the creation tool to clean the eMMc ssd so that contained no OS. Also to prove no issue with USB I repeated using eMMc as primary at it boots up fine even though in windows it calls my m.2 drive 0. I just think the bios is not able accept the wifi port as a boot disc even though I think it should be on the pci bus.

 

[tennis2]

Just wanted to make sure.

Yes, that seems to be the case. Not uncommon. Especially in laptops, manufacturers cut all kinds of corners/features to save a penny.

 

[USAFRet]

Just wanted to make sure.

Yes, that seems to be the case. Not uncommon. Especially in laptops, manufacturers cut all kinds of corners/features to save a penny.

Agreed.
And especially with these low cost, low power systems.

The BIOS in that Stream does not know how to talk to anything except the hardwired eMMC drive for the OS. They are not made to be upgradable.

I have a couple of Asus Transformers that are the same.

 

[FantoMax]

I thought i had a neat solution to the extremely low storage capacity the comes in the form of a 32gb eMMC ssd by replacing the wifi adapter with a M.2 to A-type wifi adapter and fitting a 256gb NVme m.2 ssd. When I powered up Windows 10 recognized the drive straight away so then i wanted to move the OS to this drive. Used Minitool Partition Wizard to clone the drive no problem and then entered the BIOS expecting to just change the boot order but that new drive does not seem to appear anywhere in the BIOS. Clearly I can use the drive as storage but what i really wanted was to make it have the OS too so i could avoid the hassle of cleaning it out everytime a big windows update comes.

Can anybody help?

You must use Refind Boot Manager. (Clover doesn't go)
You can install it on eMMC (I did so) or on an external SD.
Bye
Max
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