ASUS VivoBook 17 REPLACE BAD HARD DRIVE WITH M.2 NVMe SSD X712JA

I have an almost new ASUS VivoBook 17" Laptop with a bad hard drive. I will replace it with a new WD Black SN750 NVMe M.2 SSD.

----Thanks for all your support and Subscribing to my channel everyone! Dale

----Always use good quality tools and protect yourself from static discharge when doing a project like this, Dale. 👍

----Laptop Model:
ASUS VivoBook17 X712JA

----Tools Used:
#0 & #1 Magnetic Tip Phillips Screwdriver
Blue Plastic Triangle Spudger Tool

----Parts Installed:
Heatsink Kit:

WD Black SN750 M.2 PCI-e NVMe SSD 500GB Gen3

Thanks for all your support everyone, Dale

[shoffmann]

I just finished upgrading a neighbor's 2yr old Lenovo Ideapad S145 Laptop. Owner said it was slowing to a crawl w/only 4GB Ram and in Windows 'S' mode. It was pretty easy to remove the back cover w/10 screws; tried to clone the 1TB hard drive - but gave me a hard time, so I fresh installed Win 10 Home to a new 256GB SSD and upgraded to 8GB Ram. Even a regular SSD and more Ram is a great improvement in load times and performance. Those old mechanical hard drives really slow things down, esp. when they have bad sectors; the PC manufacturers also need to stop shipping machines w/ 4GB Ram if they want to run Win 10 /11 efficiently. Win 10 can barely get out of it's own way w/ 4GB Ram. I almost talked owner into installing Linux Mint or Zorin, but they wouldn't budge even though all PC activity was online.

[justlou]

As a fellow tech, loved your video. To be honest all I needed to know is if there were screws under the skid/strip, but ended up listening all the way through because I dig your pace and professionalism!! Thanks for the video 😊

[PhilipMarcYT]

Looks easy to swap the HDD, I bought a 2TB SSD for it.

[mikedifazio]

She will be pleased with that SSD for sure. Dale, if you're looking for video ideas, I would value one about transitioning from Windows 10 to 11, and maybe showing how 11 is different. I don't know what S Mode is LOL. I have not installed it on anything yet.

[jameswyburd]

Fantastically helpful. There are great people on YouTube and you are one of them. Have just done the identical thing to an identical laptop and it worked.

Two things of note to me:

1. SSD won’t show in File Manager until you go to Systems > Storage > Advanced options > discs > properties and initialise & format the SSD. That took me time to work out.
2. Good advice to note which case screws go where - there are three different sizes.

I used EaseUS clone software, cost £19/$19 for month’s subscription. Worked a treat.

The difference in speed is astonishing.

Thanks from an old Brit from across the pond.

[meicharries]

Great video. Thanks for sharing. One question - my ASUS is frustratingly slow during boot and at / after launch of Windows 11. Is this also symptomatic of a faulty HDD? Does the boot process rely on RAM / Boot Firmware rather than HDD? Again many thanks. Mkke

[SeaJay_Oceans]

Cool, DEC2022 and they are on sale at best buy for cheap... pop in a new NVMe stick and it's good.

[bangkokbullmoto]

Good to see that it comes apart easily (I have an Asus Chromebook 17 that is brilliant compared to Windows) as my consumer HP Win laptop has numerous faults and the only way I could see to get it apart was to destroy it! Could you have reformatted the original HD and put it back in, together with the new SSD, to provide somewhere to back up things?

[richukuk]

Hi I have the same laptop as we want to up the ram now we can take the screws out but there is 2 that are different either side the middle screws one each side is different to the rest so we can't open it what screw driver will I need for the outer two screwes😊

[larrycolen]

I've been fighting with one of those, trying to add a Toshiba thnsn5512gpuk m.2 ssd and we cannot get the vivo to even see that it is there.
At one point my boss managed to do something that briefly caused it to see something, then it corrected the problems it found and the SSD disappeared.
This seems to happen whether the HDD is in or out, and we usually cannot even get the BIOS to show a menu item for NVME
You didn't even seem to need to go into the BIOS.

[Carlos.F.Hernandez.A]

Hi, your video is very good, can you give me the link of the SSD you used for that laptop, I don't want to be wrong... thanks in advance.

[stephenhogan]

Hey man how’s it going.. can you tell me how to get it out of out of S mode?

[jeremyhiggins]

So I tried this exact same process. Pulled the HDD. Cloned it to the m.2 drive, the laptop says the m.2 is an inaccessible boot device

[TheRacingKirby]

I could seek a technical expert to do it for me, it can't even run very powerful video games, this video will help and my Asus is a x712e, and I think the method is the same?

[martinpaternoster]

I'm adding a 1TB N.2 drive, and will be cloning the HDD onto it and using the HDD as a second HD (on-board storage). I'm wondering how I might choose which HD to boot, I'm assuming it can be done through the BIOS?

[cyberrogue]

09:29 I don't understand why you don't need to reinstall Windows when you install a new SSD in your laptop? Where is the Windows store in the laptop? Thanks.

[blackberrybandit]

I just watched your video (from 2 years ago) on Asus Vivo Book 17 SJ712. I have this computer and cant seem to find anything compatable for a docking station. ASUS CS said you cant connect one and it made me feel like I purchased the wrong computer. Can you provide me some info to verify if he was correct or incorrect and lead me in the direction of a docking station. Also thank you for the video- very informative.

[RESPONSETEAM]

Do you have a video of you replacing hard drive ?

[SimonBauer]

why is there even a harddrive version being sold. i have one with a ryzen 7 and an nvme ssd ofcourse not to mention the 1080p screen.

[carloszamora]

Maybe it's a stupid question, but, is it possible to upgrade/replace the GPU to this laptop? I got the same model but I'm not sure if that's possible. I just want to improve it