Latitude E6400 Owner's Lounge, Part 2

[CowboyCoder]

I bought a modular bay to fit the original HDD from my E6400 after I bought an SSD for the primary. The modular bay was only £10 on eBay (new) and is a perfect match for materials/colour.


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[siliconix]

I ended up getting this one : 2nd Hard Drive Caddy DELL E6400, E6410, E6500, E6510 Modular Bay [DELL9-2BAY] - $44.95 : NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks .. but too expensive I guess, wasn't aware of the aforementioned cheap ones on ebay.

[oldcartfan]

So, the Dell Financial Services (DFS) sales website has off- lease E6400s, grade A, selling for about $325. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Any advice about buying one off that site?

[SpaZamm]

Hi, I have a problem with my E6400, I bought a new HDD and tried to replace the internal old 160 GB drive..
after creating a ghost on the new HDD I switched between the two and since then the laptop won't boot into windows. after loading the bios it gives an error and returns to bios.
I tried to switch back to original hard disk which was working fine just a day ago an I get the same boot error. I'm running win 7 but I don't have a recovery disk.
any thoughts?

[piker28]

Do you get to read the error or just restarts? When you used ghost was it a version that supports W7? did you ghost the system reserver partition as well as the OS partition?

[SpaZamm]

Error says:

Boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

and asks to use windows recovery.

I used Norton ghost 15 which supports w7..Used the drive-to-drive copy tool and checked the os partition and the master boot record but now even when I return the original HD it doesn't boot.

[piker28]

I use ghost alot and have never seen that issue. Almost not sure what to even suggest to you. Maybe run the dell diagnostics and see if any errors pop up.

[CuterKiller]

Having a problem shutting down my 2.5 year old e6400.

When I shut it down from Windows, it will sometimes go through the shut down process, the screen will power off, but the led on the power button will stay lit, and the fan will continue to run. Nothing happens if I wait - I left it that way for 8 hours once and all it did was get hot. It never shuts down - I have to hold the power button for 5 seconds to get it to turn off.

I thought it could be an issue with Windows 7 64, so I put in a new HD and installed Windows 8 64 RTM. But I'm still getting the same problem.

Anyone experience this issue or have any ideas what could be causing this?

Thank you

BIOS A32

[d0m0]

What's a good ssd to put in the e6400? I'll only load the OS and programs in it and have my storage in a 250gb hdd in the modular bay, so looking for a 64gb ssd. Or if I can get a 128gb for about $90 that will be good too.

[Commander Wolf]

Intel G1/G2s are hella cheap now. I've occasionally been seeing $60 for 80GB on eBay. We have five E6400s with G1/G2s and never had any issue.