My HP EliteBook 8440p crashed upon booting last week, the internal HDD all of a sudden stopped being recognized. No big deal, it's only used at work to stream Spotify and access the web.
I popped over to Micro Center's website and came across this steal of a deal:
Inland Professional 2.5" 512GB SATA SSD
I used my hope laptop which is equipped with a HDD tray in place of the CD-ROM drive to initialize and format the new SSD, then cloned the internal drive 1:1 to the new drive (just to get the 8440p booted and running).
I swapped the newly cloned drive back into the 8440p and fired her up. Windows booted without issue, and once completed I ran Windows Restore to wipe everything and install a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro. I'm very happy with the results for $20.
I popped over to Micro Center's website and came across this steal of a deal:
Inland Professional 2.5" 512GB SATA SSD
I used my hope laptop which is equipped with a HDD tray in place of the CD-ROM drive to initialize and format the new SSD, then cloned the internal drive 1:1 to the new drive (just to get the 8440p booted and running).
I swapped the newly cloned drive back into the 8440p and fired her up. Windows booted without issue, and once completed I ran Windows Restore to wipe everything and install a fresh copy of Windows 10 Pro. I'm very happy with the results for $20.