E6410 Owner's Thread

Or vice-versa? A 14.1" 16:9 will have about a 1/2" less display height than a 14.1" 16:10. Auto-hide the taskbar!

GK

 

About this hidden partition...

I got rid of it the other day, which destroyed Windows.

But Acronis True Image doesn't see it, so you can't make an image of it.

So I've been wondering what's the point of making and image of my C: drive (mostly just windows) if it won't work without the hidden partition after a restore.

I haven't had the courage to make the partition visible (if possible) to make an image of it.

(My memory about the extra partition is a bit vague so there may be errors in the above.)

 

Lenovo Blogs did a post on this some time ago. The guy moved the taskbar to the side, but unfortunately it also moves the start button to the upper left corner. If Microsoft could give an optioon to move it to the lower left corner while on the side, it might be a viable alternative.
Inside the Box Display Ratio Change (again)

 

Good to know.

Images are good for mass production and maintaining standards, but are they good for fast and current one-off disaster recovery vs. just fixing your hardware and re-installing the OS with the latest drivers and your current preferred apps? A backup is only a backup if you can restore it... I tend to doubt an image until it is proven which is not practical for single system use i.e. I don't want to restore an image to my only working system to prove it works.

As for your situation, can you install Win7 to create the special partition, and then restore your C: partition image to recover your working system?

I use Cobian Backup to only backup user data files daily... fast, automated, and the backup files are not in a proprietary format so you can easily recover a single file using Windows Explorer, which is 99.9% of what I use my backup for.

GK

 

Hi. I work for a large corporation and recently got a E6410 with lowest possible spec. (low-res screen, mechanical drive, no webcam, no mobile broadband, poorest wifi, non-lit keyboard).

I wish I could improve upon my personal computer without having to bother the very liberal and non-bureaucratic IT department about it...

Can one replace the display assembly with a high-res one, would that work?

What about have included three wifi antennas, mobile antenna, webcam, and at the same time change out the associated PCB's. Would that work?

As for the harddrive, it's encrypted by SafeBoot 5 so I assume I need to do a sector-by-sector copy over to a SSD?

As for the keyboard I assume it's pretty straight forward to swap in a lit one?

Thanks for your answers.

 

If you can get the parts, you can probably install them. The KB swap is not difficult. You'd be on your own trying to port the HDD to an SSD... I doubt corporate would approve.... likely violating some employee use policy.

GK

 

It looks like it's better to prevent the hidden partition being created in the first place during the OS installation process. See here for a few tricks.

Then re-imaging should work fine.

Some of you don't seem to think that re-installing everything manually is all that time consuming. Installing all the drivers, user programs and utilities, plus the infinite reboots are too much pain for me. It only takes a few minutes to reinstall an image.

 

I've given up on my 16:10 crusade for the most part, but was glad to see that the e6410 never got a 16:9 screen.

My big concern is whether they'd make available a high resolution option....I pretty much can't get any consumer pc besides Apple due to the simply horrible low resolution 16:9 screens that they install now...with no upgrades.

If Dell offered high-resolution on a 16:9 e6410 then I could live with it.

 

Hi,
I'm having an issue with resume from suspend to RAM. Dell replaced the MB and CPU, without any improvement. I have tried using a different RAM module as well. A06 BIOS did not resolve the prob either. Dell 1st level support stated that this is normal and that one should use hibernate instead or always switch the machine off
Anyone else did realize their laptop being frozen on wake-up from sleep occasionally? Hibernate works fine, but I'm used to suspend to RAM since it's much quicker and does not cause additional wear to SSD.
It seems that the problem occurs only when the laptop runs on battery during resume.
Since all fundamental components have been replaced for new ones it makes me assume that any Latitude e6410 with 2.66GHz CPU and nVidia NVS GPU has the same problem. Anyone willing to test the DELL quality of their e6410 babies is welcome to perform the following:
1) Have your OS started (no matter if it is a Win XP, Win 7 or a Linux distro or how much "bits the OS supports")
2) Unplug AC adapter from the notebook
3) Push FN+F1 or select sleep from the OS menu
4) Wake-up the machine with the power button
(usually it takes not just 1, but 2 or 3 sleeps and wake-ups - i.e. repeating steps 3 and 4 - like e.g. moving from one meeting to another in the morning, ending up with stuck OS and work lost in the midday)
Of course I'd be glad if you guys are not impacted with this problem, or do not know about it (in this case, you'd better not even try it)
Cheers,
Mike

 

I'm not aware of chronic sleep problems here or around this forum. I vaguely recall some such on my early E6400 with factory Vista but that installation is long gone.

GK