DELL E6420 SSD problem

Question

Hello guys,I have LATITUDE E6420 laptop (i7-2620M, 8GB DDR3). I wanted to replace HDD with SSD. I bought Kingston A400 240GB SATA III SSD. I changed my bios, sata controller to AHCI (it was on RAID on), and booted my USB in UEFI mode. System was installed on SSD, but after installation, my laptop won't find SSD, it says something like there is not bootable device. I saw someone already told that it can be mechanical problem, because of SSD dimensions, but my laptop sees SSD in instalation menu. Does someone know what can i do? P. S. I upgraded BIOS to A25 version. Thank you all!

nyc10036 · Accepted Answer

https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Latitude-E6420-UEFI-support/td-p/4013347

djuro_vukotic_ · Answer

Is there any way i can completely change system BIOS? Can i get OS while SSD is inside or i have to go back to HDD?

nyc10036 · Answer

I do not understand your question. For a laptop of that age, I would use Rufus to create a bootable USB for installation of Windows 10 with Legacy BIOS.   .

U2CAMEB4ME · Answer

Welcome to the Dell Community @djuro_vukotic_

You do not need to use Rufus.

All you need is a 8GB USB flash drive.

I format the flash drive FAT32 using MiniAide.

https://download.cnet.com/MiniAide-Fat32-Formatter/3000-2094_4-75701815.html

Download the W10 ISO to the flash drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Power-on the laptop and tap the " f2 " key to enter the BIOS.

Set SATA configuration to AHCI, save and exit.

Insert the flash drive power-on and start tapping the " f12 " key.

Boot the flash drive and follow the instructions to install W10.

If the SSD has more than one partition delete them all to have the drive as one partition.

Best regards,

U2

djuro_vukotic_ · Answer

@U2CAMEB4ME what about boot mode, Legacy or UEFI?

djuro_vukotic_ · Answer

@nyc10036 I tried. When the installation was finished, and laptop started to boot, showed an error PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

U2CAMEB4ME · Answer

@djuro_vukotic_  Legacy: Regards, U2

djuro_vukotic_ · Answer

It's me again. I tried to install OS again. I set my bios settings to AHCI and Legacy and i got this report. What should i do?Thank you all.

AIRORIA · Answer

1. Once the SSD is in the caddy, push up as you slide it in the bay. Then the SSD will be firmly placed in the port inside.

Important: You must "push up and slide" because the SSD is thinner than the default hard drive, so its not as snug a fit.

2.Go into your BIOS and go to "boot sequence" select UEFI: INT13(RAID,0x80) and select apply, then exit.

Once your computer has rebooted everything should work.

This is a solution that worked for me there could be other reasons that the SSD does not get detected. See the rest of the forums here for other solutions. I hope this helps.

AIRORIA · Answer

Push up on the SSD caddy as you slide it in1. Once the SSD is in the caddy, push up as you slide it in the bay. Then the SSD will be firmly placed in the port inside.

Important: You must "push up and slide" because the SSD is thinner than the default hard drive, so its not as snug a fit.

2.Go into your BIOS and go to "boot sequence" select UEFI: INT13(RAID,0x80) and select apply, then exit.

Once your computer has rebooted everything should work.

This is a solution that worked for me there could be other reasons that the SSD does not get detected. See the rest of the forums here for other solutions. I hope this helps.

przemozhx · Answer

How about the disk with 512 GB SSD, will it work? I recently bought a new drive and seems that on E6420 the disk is recognized but error code: 2000-151. However after switching to another computer the disk works correctly.

Shashank.chaturvedi85 · Answer

@djuro_vukotic_​  hi were you able to solve this issue on your laptop? I am also getting the same issue

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