inspiron n4010 primary hdd

really? i was reading the manual and the steps you have to take just to get to the primary hdd...

Reply 1 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

This is typical for a lot of Dell's current consumer models...

Reply 2 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

Yep



They dont want you working on it yourself

Reply 3 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

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Originally Posted by OneCool Yep They dont want you working on it yourself

I absolutely don"t get it, Being able to swap out a hdd easily is paramount.I never heard of hdd failures years ago, but today there common. Maybe because the capacities are larger. I had a hdd failure on my m1330 and just recently on my new 14r. The Seagate 500gig 5400 which came on my 14r and was replaced with the same Seagate has a very bad rep for failure.

Reply 4 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

Almost all the new Inspirons place the drive underneath the palmrest. In reality it is like 2-3 minutes of work vs 5 seconds. It's really not that bad.

Reply 5 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

Yeah, the evolution of placement is reaching degenerative heights.

In a desktop, no problem.

In a laptop/notebook, It is (should be) essential that HDD, RAM and extra connectors like pci-e would be just as easily accessible as the battery.



What would be next? Going back to the way of Compcraq soldering RAMsticks to the mainboard? :P



I'd prefer 2 screws and 5 seconds, than ripping off plastic, removing 3-6 screws, crowbarring with a screwdriver up the harddrive, replace it, return the keyboard, just to realize that you forgot to actually hook up the harddrive. (It is possible. I have seen people wedge a square stick into a round hole).

Reply 6 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

i went through it and got the ssd install. now it just wont wanna boot from it lol it'll still boot from the stock hdd though. i guess it is picky. cloning it doesnt work either.

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Originally Posted by einhander i went through it and got the ssd install. now it just wont wanna boot from it lol it'll still boot from the stock hdd though. i guess it is picky. cloning it doesnt work either.

Maybe the drive is defective? Did you reinstall Windows on it properly?

Reply 8 : inspiron n4010 primary hdd

i didnt reinstal i cloned it from the stock drive. i also tried installing a fresh copy of windows 7 but there were not drivers during installation, the os can't see the drivers apparently sata drivers are needed.

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Originally Posted by einhander i didnt reinstal i cloned it from the stock drive. i also tried installing a fresh copy of windows 7 but there were not drivers during installation, the os can't see the drivers apparently sata drivers are needed.

Windows 7 shouldn't need F6 SATA drivers, only XP if your SATA operation is set to RAID/AHCI.



Sounds like your new drive is defective if your computer boots fine from the old drive..