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    Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Robc90, May 26, 2011.

  1. Robc90

    Robc90 Newbie

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    Hi,


    Basicly everywhere i've searched leads me to this forum! so any help appreciated!


    Long story short, my copy of windows 7 decided to go wrong...Tried installing it again with the disk that comes with the laptop and the cd was scratched beyond use

    does the M14x come with a image on the recovery partition already?? i've installed vista for now but when i view the recovery partition and show hidden files all i can see is a few small files :confused:


    I've tried using the vista cd in repair mode to find the image with no luck, im in the process of downloading windows 7 what are the chances of using that to restore it back to how it was?
     
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  2. TitanGod

    TitanGod Notebook Evangelist

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    I'll try to help you but just curious...

    The DVD the M14x came with came scratched already or it had an accident?

    The M14x does come with a recovery partition called (Alienrespawn) but if you installed Vista over the original Windows 7 copy installed (like you are stating), you might have deleted the recovery partition.

    When the computer boots, Press F8 repeatedly and go into "Repair your computer" or "repair windows" I can't remember which one it is.

    Then select Alienrespawn which should be the last option.

    If it's not there then you might have deleted the recovery partition.
     
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  3. Robc90

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    thanks,

    It came scratched! id never used it before and was still sealed yet i took it out and was badly sctrached

    Well When installing vista i left the recovery partition intake, however the copy of vista is not from dell so surely no alienrespawn option would show?
     
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    Robc90, May 26, 2011
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    Ok setup fails "RPSetup error 1" I checked the log and i see

    [2011-05-26 22:03:08] INFORMATION : Factory.WIM/BASE.WIM/BASE.INP not found


    This is stupid because there is 6GB of space used on the recovery partition so on there somewhere should be the restore image
     
    Robc90, May 26, 2011
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  6. takeabyte

    takeabyte Notebook Evangelist

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    I say delete the partition, download one the win7 iso from here, and activate using the Genuine sticker on the bottom of your comp. Then just reinstall drivers. That's what I did.
     
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  7. Serephucus

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    Question: Why did you install Vista over Windows 7?
     
    Serephucus, May 26, 2011
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    takeabyte Notebook Evangelist

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    his win7 broke and the dvd was too corrupt to reinstall :(
     
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    Ah. Well then I'd take your advice, and just download another copy of Win7.

    Don't upgrade though. You loose a fair chunk of performance if you do that. You're much better off doing a clean install.
     
    Serephucus, May 27, 2011
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