Hi everybody. I recently dropped my e6430 and it wont boot up. This was confirmed by a full diagnostic but that has now stopped working too.  How do you mean that it did work after the drop but now has stopped working? Any status lights? Any BIOS screen? Check if the light is lit at the plug end of the AC adaptor. And see if that light remains lit when you plug it into the laptop's jack. It's possible that the charging jack or motherboard were damaged in the fall. I am pretty sure all e6000 series drives are compatible. There is nothing special about the drives in those laptops. You may use any standard 2.5" SATA drive. And in that model it's easy to access the drive, as it slides out of the laptop after removing some screws. As long as it has an OS of some kind and I can prove the rest of the unit works ok, any other spec is not important. You could create a bootable flash drive with Ubuntu Live on USB flash drive. You can do that from your working PC, then boot it on the dropped laptop. If the system will let you access BIOS, then you can boot from the Ubuntu flash drive to test out various hardware components and functions. But, if you cannot even power on the laptop and access BIOS, then no flash drive or hard drive will help you. In such a case, as long as AC adapter appears to work (as I mentioned earlier), you could disassemble the laptop to check that all components are still well seated and cables are firmly connected. If it were me, I would remove and reseat all components such as drive, RAM and wireless card even if they look solid. Whenever touching components or working inside a computer, wear a grounded wrist strap, also called anti-static wrist strap, ESD wrist strap, or ground bracelet. It's a cheap and sensible precaution. Rest the laptop on an anti-static mat or at least a reasonable alternative such as corrugated cardboard. If the laptop is toast, you can connect the hard drive to an external USB drive interface or insert in a USB enclosure to mount and access its contents from your working PC. That way you could save/copy your files. Now, if the drive itself was damaged that might not be possible, such as if the laptop dropped while the drive heads were accessing the platters to read or write.
Hi everybody. I recently dropped my e6430 and it wont boot up. This was confirmed by a full diagnostic but that has now stopped working too.  I have a request. Do you have an original hdd left over from an upgrade that you would be willing to donate?  What I am planning is to upgrade to ssd myself and use the laptop as a music player only that would perform no other function (I have a later model that I am writing on now).  I am pretty sure all e6000 series drives are compatible. As long as it has an OS of some kind and I can prove the rest of the unit works ok, any other spec is not important. If you have such but would like it back I am happy to return it after testing. I only need to prove boot up into the desktop. I am based in the West Country in UK Thanks
Latitude e6430 broken hdd