HP Pavillion 590-p00047na Optane drive

[DavidW3]

Hi If this is not the right thread can someone point me in the right direction please HP Pavillion 590-P0047na desktop running very slow has 2TB SATA HD and 18Gb Nvme drive these are paired with SATA emulation using Optane is there any way to update the Nvme to a larger SSD say 500gb so that windows 11 can run from that and the HD can be used for data storage. Tried putting 500gb P310 Nvme in and system would not boot. getting messages in BIOS that pairing is not complete. Can get to boot if i use USB boot device with clean version of Windows 11, but the it only sees the P310 Nvme drive and not the SATA HD? (it does run fast though). Thanks in advance Dave W

[sstrell]

Wrong forum. 

[DavidW3]

Many thanks for your help, I did ask which forum !!!

[LeonWaksman · Accepted solution]

You did not provide enough information about your system. I'm assuming that you are right and you have an Optane Memory installed in M.2 slot, which accelerate the 2TB HDD. If this is the case, please verify that your BIOS is set to UEFI boot mode and the SATA Mode in BIOS is set to "Intel RST Premium with Optane".  Before replacing the Optane Memory module with 500GB NVMe SSD:

1. Disable the Optane engagement, using the Optane Memory and Storage Management Application that you must have installed in your Windows. Failing to do this will cause to loose your access to the HDD, once the Optane Memory is replaced. 

2. Run the MSCONFIG and set the Windows boot mode to SAFE. Reboot your computer and verify that it is booting in SAFE mode.

3. Reboot into BIOS and change the SATA mode from "Intel RST Premium with Optane" to "AHCI". Save the setting and reboot into Windows. 

4. Run MSCONFIG again and change the Windows boot mode to NORMAL. Reboot your computer.

Now, you computer is ready to accept the new SSD in place of the disabled Optane Memory module.

Leon

[DavidW3]

Many thanks Leon can now see both disks with the 500gb SSD being used for boot and program. The original 2Tb SATA HD is now a simple NTFS used for data.
Thanks again for your help