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MSI GS65 Stealth 9SE Hard Drive Upgrade Teardown Install

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I’ve been wanting to add some additional storage since I picked up my MSI GS65 9SE 2019 model since it came with only 512GB storage space. Sure it may seem like a lot now but this is a gaming laptop games take a lot of space and that will fill up pretty quickly. Fortunately, the MSI GS65 Stealth is up upgradable and you can put 2 M.2 SSD SSD drives into the laptop.

Unfortunately MSI doesn’t make the task as easy as most laptops out there to upgrade the hard drive and install RAM since the motherboard for some reason is flipped over and to get access to those upgrades, you need to physically remove the motherboard from the chassis. Sure it sounds pretty scary and it even looks scary doing but it’s not as tough as it seems. I did it in an hour by following a Youtube video which I will link below paid close attention to what I was doing. You have to be patient with yourself in this project but in the same time be confident and not too nervous. I was able to complete the task in about 30 minutes. Seriously, it wasn’t all to bad. I say the most difficult part through the whole thing was just stop myself from over thinking the whole process and just doing it. Once you pop open the cover at the bottom, just watch along carefully and gently remove the ribbon cables, screws, and some tape. Believe me, it will all start to make sense when you start.

Here’s what I Used

 

 


 

Successfully Installed Samsung 950 Pro M.2 on Razer Blade Stealth

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I am happy to report that I have successfully replaced the stock 256GB PM951 drive with the 512GB Samsung 950 PRO using the steps below taken from the Notebook Review forums here:http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr…-review-swapping-instructions-cloning.771316/

Before you start, just remember that opening the bottom panel to access the hard drive may VOID YOUR WARRANTY so please do this at your own risk. You are going to need a Torx 5 screwdriver and the set I used can be purchased here from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1SYcbZO

The Samsung 950 PRO can be purchased here: http://amzn.to/1SYcjIU

How I cloned to these drives:

  1. Use Macrium to create WinPE bootable recovery USB key flash drive.
  2. Use Macrium to create a FULL PARTITION BACKUP of your Blade’s original drive onto anexternal USB drive that can hold it.
  3. Put the new empty drive in the blade, as above.
  4. Boot the Macrium WinPE USB key: (hold F12 on boot when prompted to choose boot drive)
  5. Select “Restore”, Choose the backup file on the USB drive from step 2.
  6. Choose the empty drive you installed in the Razer as the destination.
  7. Restore away, will take some time depending on the speed of your USB drive.
  8. Power down, disconnect all the USB stuff and try to boot.
  9. If it works, YAY, if it doesn’t.. I had to do this other stuff as well…
  10. Reconnect your Macrium USB recovery KEY, boot from that again, this time without the old drive connected over USB
  11. Attempt to fix the Windows boot problems again (same menu option). This time, it should actually work with all green checks.
  12. Try to boot again, should work this time.
  13. Thanks @mario64, they had to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.6 to extend the new partition to the full free space of the drive.

Things to note:

  • Macium reflex makes backup and restore incredibly easy. It will back up all the partitions, INCLUDING a PERFECT copy of the Recovery partition on the stock drive
  • When booting into the Macrium WinPE USB drive, the mouse for some reason doesn’t work. You will need to do everything on the touch screen. Don’t worry! It is touch friendly!!!
  • After successfully restoring, you will notice that your new drive will have only 256GB instead of 512GB… Don’t worry! Follow Step 13 above to fix that! Just Merge the partitions using the Partition Assistant Software!
  • New drive is screaming fast!