Windows Installation - Battery Charging Problem

[Destius]

 I have a Del Latitude E6530 which about 2 weeks ago starting presenting problems with its battery. At first the battery would not last more than 1 hour , later the battery stopped charging altogether.An error message would pop up on startup saying that the charger adapter is unknown and that's why the battery doesn't charge. The on-board diagnostics showed that "the battery is on the end of its lifetime" which made me wonder if its the off brand charger or the battery not working? Few days later after using the laptop only when plugged in , i accidentally pulled the plug and the laptop shut down. Windows got corrupted/broke and none of the troubleshooting options worked. So i decided to reinstall windows seeing it was the only choice. But after trying to reinstall windows using a USB flash drive  at first the installation would reach the HDD partition selection and it wouldn't show any options. After changing the SATA configuration from RAID to AHCI it would show the partitions. Selecting the primary partition or any partition really wouldn't work as it just showed an error message and stopped the installation. Deleting/formatting the partitions did the same thing. So is there any solution to these 2 problems and are they connected at all? I don't mind having to use it plugged in for now but i really need to fix the windows installation as i need the laptop for work. Any ideas?

[Donut417]

On 10/31/2019 at 1:13 PM, Destius said:

E6530

Well it uses a Ivybridge chip. So the battery if toast. Most laptop batteries your lucky to get 3 good years out of from what I have read. 

 

The Windows issue could be a dead drive. If it were me, Id take the hard drive out and see about conecting it to another machine. They make USB to SATA adapters for this purpose. Check to see if the hard drive can be seen. If not, of it you still have issues, its probably dead. If you can read the drive, try formating it on that other machine. Then stick it in and see what happens. If the drive died, id look in to an SSD if you plan on keeping this machine. It should make it more resposive.

 

OR it might be time to buy a new machine. Laptop hardware doesnt age well like Desktop hardware. So Im going to say that machine is probably getting long in the tooth. 

[Destius]

On 11/2/2019 at 1:24 AM, Donut417 said:

Well it uses a Ivybridge chip. So the battery if toast. Most laptop batteries your lucky to get 3 good years out of from what I have read. 

 

The Windows issue could be a dead drive. If it were me, Id take the hard drive out and see about conecting it to another machine. They make USB to SATA adapters for this purpose. Check to see if the hard drive can be seen. If not, of it you still have issues, its probably dead. If you can read the drive, try formating it on that other machine. Then stick it in and see what happens. If the drive died, id look in to an SSD if you plan on keeping this machine. It should make it more resposive.

 

OR it might be time to buy a new machine. Laptop hardware doesnt age well like Desktop hardware. So Im going to say that machine is probably getting long in the tooth. 

Ah i see this explains a lot. I will try seeing if the HDD is dead and see if it is worth repairing it or getting another one. You are right by the way this is an old machine and it has been seeing much usage the past months so it makes sense its presenting problems. Thanks a lot for the suggestions though  and sorry for replying this late.