I'm having the same problem. I have no idea what is going wrong. Wish I could help. I can't believe Dell has made this such a pain in the a*$. I guess its time to resell this piece of junk and go buy a working laptop. Dell has not posted any helpful information as to why this is happening or what is wrong, no useful information on forums anywhere.
When you clone a drive, you need to make sure to shut down immediately after cloning, and boot the system with ONLY the new drive in the system - NOT the original drive.
Once you've done that you can add the other drive back to the system, but the first boot MUST be with only the intended boot drive in the system.
I have an M6500. lastnight I cloned to an sshd from a hdd. I then swapped their position in system. went control panel and verified both seen by system. then formatted hdd to use for storage and such until I get anew ssd or sshd. all this was quick and easy via Seagate disk wizard. I tried a month ago on an asus machine with acronis true mirro and had to send it back to mfgr.
I also installed 32gb ram. system is faster with every boot. load all updates and firmware in about 12 hours. started at bios o4 now have bios 10. so far all is well. running win 7 p/64.
ballaboyee93
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April 28th, 2016 21:00
I'm having the same problem. I have no idea what is going wrong. Wish I could help. I can't believe Dell has made this such a pain in the a*$. I guess its time to resell this piece of junk and go buy a working laptop. Dell has not posted any helpful information as to why this is happening or what is wrong, no useful information on forums anywhere.
ejn63
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April 29th, 2016 04:00
When you clone a drive, you need to make sure to shut down immediately after cloning, and boot the system with ONLY the new drive in the system - NOT the original drive.
Once you've done that you can add the other drive back to the system, but the first boot MUST be with only the intended boot drive in the system.
LostDell
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April 30th, 2016 09:00
I have an M6500. lastnight I cloned to an sshd from a hdd. I then swapped their position in system. went control panel and verified both seen by system. then formatted hdd to use for storage and such until I get anew ssd or sshd. all this was quick and easy via Seagate disk wizard. I tried a month ago on an asus machine with acronis true mirro and had to send it back to mfgr.
I also installed 32gb ram. system is faster with every boot. load all updates and firmware in about 12 hours. started at bios o4 now have bios 10. so far all is well. running win 7 p/64.
hope this helps.