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    Giving me an option to boot into recovery...

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Grapedrive, Dec 25, 2011.

  1. Grapedrive

    Grapedrive Newbie

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    Like when I boot up my computer, it says Windows 7 Home Prem(I'm guessing this is the recovery you can boot into) an the other says just Windows 7...I can also see it from my Computer...I'm guessing that this is why Respawn will not see it? How do I "reset" it? Thanks!
     
    Grapedrive, Dec 25, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Have you reinstalled Windows before? You can go into your msconfig and go to the Boot tab for boot.ini and remove the one that doesn't work.

    Getting to Advanced Boot Options (spamming F8) and entering Repair my Computer is where Respawn should be if it works properly.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Dec 26, 2011
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    Well I think what done it is I screwed up an listed it as a drive? or something through bootrec, I got that dreaded boot file missing an all that good stuff.

    Before I couldn't see the partition at all, now I can see it an looks like a clone of it, if that makes any since but smaller...what I'm asking is how would I get it to where I can't see it anymore, and if I do that is there a greater chance that Respawn will find it?
     
    Grapedrive, Dec 26, 2011
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