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    Factory Image

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by seelezerkleiner, Jan 27, 2012.

  1. seelezerkleiner

    seelezerkleiner Notebook Guru

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    Does anyone have a copy of the factory image they can bt/host? My power loss issue has now claimed my hard drive. Luckily writing all zeroes fixed the damaged sectors on the drive, but my respawn image does not work...
     
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    nuaron Notebook Consultant

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    Did you make a respawn backup? if you didn't theres is nothing you can do now. Each image is unique to a system. because each hardware has different HW ID etc. so you cant use image of any other system on yours.
     
    nuaron, Jan 28, 2012
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    seelezerkleiner Notebook Guru

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    The image I made does not work.
     
    seelezerkleiner, Jan 28, 2012
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    Can you explain further about how it is not working? Is it showing any error while loading ? or system does not read it ?


    I guess he already has Windows 7 DVD that came with the System. he specificaly asked for the factory image which in his case, is not available and the only copy he made is not working.
     
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    seelezerkleiner Notebook Guru

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    The system does not recognize the image, although I can confirm its existence using a linux live cd. It may be corrupt.
     
    seelezerkleiner, Jan 29, 2012
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    You cannnot just run the image . you have to boot the system throught the DVD. on boot, press F12, choose DVD Drive ( while the Image dvd is still inside) and boot. It will automatically take you to the restore screen.
     
    nuaron, Jan 29, 2012
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    erephus Notebook Geek

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    Are you using USB-stick or something similar?

    Try using any other port, the USB on the left side.

    The right side USB ports can give you problem when booting something from them.
     
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    seelezerkleiner Notebook Guru

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    i understand this. it does not matter which method i use to try and recover, whether its using the respawn-made recovery disc, the os disc recovery options, or the recovery options from the bootable partition (i always thought using the f8 recovery options were more convenient than inserting a disc any way.) images i have created on usb drives work fine, but they are not factory images.
     
    seelezerkleiner, Jan 29, 2012
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    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    The reason to that is because of the M14x's motherboard is not natively support the USB 3.0 like good old USB 2.0, it need driver to get that USB 3 working thus you have to get to Windows to get it work.
     
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  11. seelezerkleiner

    seelezerkleiner Notebook Guru

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    i know. the issue is not related to the usb port. i have only tried recovery from the 2.0 port.
     
    seelezerkleiner, Jan 30, 2012
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