How to UPGRADE a Surface Laptop with a bigger SSD

I'll walk through the steps I've taken on my personal Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition to increase its storage from 512GB to 2TB using an M.2 2230 GEN 4 SSD. If you're looking to do something like this and are a skilled technician, this should save you some time. The SSD upgrade along with the internal NPU will make this a formidable 4K video capture and editing machine with lots of file capacity, which is great as a creator or video editor. This process works on Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Laptop 7th Edition. The approach is different on Surface Laptop 3, 4, and 5 to disassemble the device, but locating the recovery image and the USB preparation is the same. Surface Pro 7+ and newer devices have an SSD cover panel behind the kickstand and share the same process for locating recovery images and preparing the USB. Links: Recovery image: https://support.microsoft.com/surface... How to boot Surface devices to USB: https://support.microsoft.com/surface... Surface warranty information: https://aka.ms/surface-warranty Surface Laptop 7th Edition: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surfa... SSD I used (Silicon Power UD90): https://amzn.to/4eVeWKT (I didn't want to add the link to the SSD until I had strenuously tested it for a few weeks. No issues so far as of July 11, 2025. Retailer affiliate only; I have no affiliation with Silicon Power.) Chapters: 00:00 Why I needed 2TB of storage 01:10 Finding recovery images for Surface devices 02:04 Preparing a USB drive for recovery 03:25 Accessing the SSD on a Surface Laptop 7th Edition 06:07 Booting to the recovery USB 07:21 Installing the recovery media on the 2TB SSD 07:54 Did it work? Results after installing the 2TB SSD #windows11 #ssdupgrade #microsoftsurface What I film with and use on Teams calls daily: Sony ZV-E10 camera: https://amzn.to/44CrySl Viltrox 23mm F1.4 lens: https://amzn.to/4kypv7I Elgato Cam Link 4K: https://amzn.to/4kEJt0N Shure MV7 microphone: https://amzn.to/3ICQ3aC Elgato Wave XLR preamp: https://amzn.to/44FI6Jd Elgato Key Light: https://amzn.to/3GCskqC (Retailer affiliate links) International links: Shure MV7 microphone: -UK- https://amzn.to/3GdJjfA -DE- https://amzn.to/3ZJ9gdW -CA- https://amzn.to/3K7ZtrI -ES- https://amzn.to/3MbGbEF -IT- https://amzn.to/3U5frYd Sony ZV-E10 camera: -UK- https://amzn.to/42ULwX3 -DE- https://amzn.to/3GfCslF -CA- https://amzn.to/3MaPWCU -ES- https://amzn.to/3K5JaMd -IT- https://amzn.to/3ZzxtTU Viltrox 23mm F1.4 AF lens: -UK- https://amzn.to/3ztaJdE -DE- https://amzn.to/3U0Jb8Q -CA- https://amzn.to/3M9Yzha -ES- https://amzn.to/3lYXmi0 -IT- https://amzn.to/4329GP6