M6600 Owners Thread

I looked at the Samsung cloning software (Ghost, known not to be too reliable), mentions that they can't be moved over even though they can be selected I think - not sure.

It's the pointers that seem to need repair. Regardless of what gets moved or reinstalled it seems to circle back to that same area of contention because it's still got bad pointers after. What exactly is the casue I can't say for sure. You're going to need to run a repair, it won't break anything further than what it is now.

 

I clone with acronis or paragon, both have been great. This is really the first time I've had a problem with a clone. I'll reinstall the new SSD later this week after I get caught up from my debacle of Thursday/Friday and try fiddling around with various iastor fixes.

Thanks for all the ideas

 

Different issues - YES. Don't forget you're cloning off of a drive that has the aforementioned issues. And, the factory image like the Dell/Windows DVD has whatever it has in Raid On mode to straighten it out to the extent that it is still the Samsung not a different drive manufacturer. Nonetheless it has also plagued the single HDD clone to SSD.

Please do post back if you're able to resolve it.

 

I'm not cloning off a drive with issues - my system works really well 99% of the time. The problems start when I put the cloned drive in.

 

You said you cloned the Samsung SSD you got with the computer to the new Sandisk SSD?

 

I'm not trying to be argumentative intentionally. Simply just trying to inform about an issue that the Samsung experiences so that deducemment can logically occur. Maybe it can help to understand what might be happening since it is very hard to see it if not looking in that area.

I do have empathy for your frustration. I just don't have any absolute answers.

The Samsung on a factory image should be working perfectly fine as you've noted.


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sgrinavi,

While it is unfortunate for you that you're being affected by this. If we all together could get to the bottom of it and define exactly what these problems are - it would benefit the group immensly.
Some would say to just to clean reimage and be done with it (I've already done that).
It is up to you how much further you want to keep investigating. And, I think I speak for everyone that we appreciate your giving it a solid try thus far.

 

Yes I am

I'mm not reading you as being intentionally argumentative - I appreciate the help.

What is wrong with the samsung drive that would be causing iastor.sys error 9 when I clone it?

 

Sorry, edited previous post again: http://forum.notebookreview.com/del...0712-m6600-owners-thread-606.html#post9180577

I can't wrap my thoughts around it being either the SATA controller, BIOS Raid On or AHCI, or the Samsung controller.

You're in the perfect storm trying to clone from the problem drive.

Just want you to know we're empathetic and won't stop. I'm sure we'll keep trying to figure it out even if you decide to quit.

 

PremierColor:

There was that issue I was trying to describe a couple weeks ago where it wouldn't accept mouse clicks changes in the drop down menus. Well since meticulously watching everything I installed while reimaging the machine I think I caught the exact moment it started this behavior. This with my preferred Dell R316049 nVidia Driver.

Unfortunately when I installed my trading platform it has to install: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package, and Windows Update: Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB2538242) MS11-025 which can't be removed.

So there you have it. Quite possibly there is nothing wrong with the latest Dell nVidia driver combined with Dell PremierColor. Everything had seemed ok with it except for that menu issue which had been there prior, I just hadn't noticed before until I checked after installing the newer driver. Like I said earlier, for me, once PremierColor is setup there aren't really any changes I need to make to application colors - usually just occasional manual ones.

 

I had reported earlier that the "freeze" of the 6600 running Win 8 has gone away, it has not. There is no Hibernate enabled, all files and drivers are current, I tried the trick with turning off/on wireless, entering exiting sleep, nothing brings it back but a hard turn off/turn on. I suspect this is a Win 8 issue as I never had trouble with the laptop running Win 7. Very discouraging. If anyone has for sure seen this problem go away and knows why, please let me know, thanks!