Dell M6600 SSD swap issues

[sgrinavi]

Hey all -

Not sure if it's better to post this here or in the lappy forum...

I currently have the samsung 830 (256 GB) drive for the primary and a OCZ 512 in the secondary. I'm trying to install a new Sandisk 480 in the primary slot, but am getting some goofy errors along the way.

I've got my system all up to date with both MaS and Dell updates and have flashed the latest firmware on the Sandisk 480.

I clone the samsung to the sandisk, install the sandisk, boot to safe mode, windows installs new drivers. I reboot and that's when the wierdness starts;

• From the time the windows logo appears to log in could be 30 seconds or 5 minutes
• It will sometimes hang on the windows logo
• Sometimes I can move my mouse, but none of the buttons work and the keyboard is dead - although the back-light stays lit up
• If I do finally get to log in it takes a very long time to complete the log-in -( connecting to the internet, starting the various background processes, etc)
• If i get past that point I start to get 30 - 60 seconds hangs every 2 to 3 minutes . The system is not even close to being use-able.
• I tried to sfc /scannow both before and after the disk clone / swap without any affect on the issue.
• I tried updating iastor, but apparently I have the latest version already

If you take a look at the event viewer you can see where the errors are occuring - iastor.sys gives an error 9 (timeout)

Any ideas?

 

[Schmide]

Bad cable?

 

[sgrinavi]

Bad cable?

Well, good thought but when I put the old SSD back in everything is back to normal.

 

[Smoblikat]

To be honest cloning a system is never a good idea. I have a 50% success rate with it. You should back up your files, and re-OS.

 

[sgrinavi]

To be honest cloning a system is never a good idea. I have a 50% success rate with it. You should back up your files, and re-OS.

You're right and I suspect that's where I'll end-up, but I've done it a couple dozen times on many different systems without a single issue. Apparently there's some effed up issues in the newer Dell BIOS that some how attaches itself to the drive and just goes bonkers when you try to swap it out.