The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Can't start my machine - help!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by MickyD1234, Mar 29, 2013.

  1. MickyD1234

    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    3,159
    Messages:
    6,473
    Likes Received:
    1,165
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Well, I did a pretty stupid thing. I was in disk manager and saw that my c drive was not active. Should have left well alone but no, I changed it - dumb. Now I get no boot mgr when I start up. I tried the win dvd and select repair, it says a problem has been detected and reboot. But that is a loop.\\Any ideas - please!

    Cancel that - panic over. Just had to go through the repair a couple of times - phew!
     
  2. DDDenniZZZ

    DDDenniZZZ Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    810
    Messages:
    1,311
    Likes Received:
    35
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Glad you sorted it out!
     
  3. MickyD1234

    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    3,159
    Messages:
    6,473
    Likes Received:
    1,165
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Thanks, still don't understand what happened. My recovery partition was the active one on the primary drive before I messed with it. Now after the repair the c: partition is the active one (as I set it). Seems like it was booting off the recovery partition then switching to the other one - weird!
     
  4. DDDenniZZZ

    DDDenniZZZ Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    810
    Messages:
    1,311
    Likes Received:
    35
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Sounds reasonable, i guess at least it was choosing the right disk it would be fine. I dont even have a recovery partition haha ( not a proper alienware one anyways).