Hi @shuttlecock,

You can replace the HDD with an SSD, but just because the HDD is constantly at 100% doesn’t mean that inserting a SSD will resolve the problem.

How much ram is installed in the laptop? It may be that there isn’t enough for what you’re trying to do with the laptop and that the HDD is being utilized as virtual memory and the paging file is too small.

There may also be another reason why the HDD is being fully accessed all the time.

Check in Task Manager > Processes > Disk to see what process is using the HDD the most and find out what it is and why it may be doing this. To get to Task Manager, right click on the Taskbar and click on the Task Manager link.

If you wish to replace the HDD then here’s the maintenance and service guide for the laptop, taken from this webpage. Go to p.38 to view the necessary pre-requisite steps and then the procedure to remove/replace the HDD.

Looking at the manual it appears that there is an option to have an additional M.2 SSD installed as well (see p.65) if you need more storage etc