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    Alienware M17X R3 WINDOWS REINSTALL ISSUES

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by rskrober, Aug 3, 2013.

  1. rskrober

    rskrober Newbie

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    Hey everyone,
    I recently tried to reinstall windows 7 64 on my laptop after just wanting to clean it up after it seemed to be a bit bogged down. However when I started reinstalling it (after i had no real issues at all) it crashes on the install continuation (after the restart) and goes into a reboot loop.The error message thrown says "windows cannot complete installation because it does not have the proper hardware." I havent changed anything physically on the computer before the install. Aftter talking to IT at my company and friends who are more experienced, I've tried changing the raid configuration, installing on separate drives, taking the hard drives out and erasing them and reinstalling. Talked to IT from dell eventhough my warranty ended and tried everything they suggested. I really dont want to spend 150$ if its something simple. Any help would be appreciated. Please! :confused:
     
    rskrober, Aug 3, 2013
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  2. paradigm

    paradigm Notebook Deity

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    If you are trying to instal win7 from the image then it's running in raid mode.

    If a clean installation then make sure the RAID bios isn't active and you do need to finish the raid setup within that bios, and then make your system AHCI in the Sys bios


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    paradigm, Aug 4, 2013
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    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

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    Hi, you can also leave the BIOS in RAID mode but when the install gets to the point of selecting a drive and partition select add driver. You need to expand the IRST software from dell drivers onto a USB and the install will find it when you point it at the USB. It will then say something like 'Intel RAID' for the driver. If you install in AHCI then you may not be able to change it back without a BSOD needing win to reinstall. If you do not intend to use caching or RAID ever then AHCI is the way to go.

    Good Luck
     
    MickyD1234, Aug 4, 2013
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