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    Need to do a clean install

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by derin11, May 29, 2011.

  1. derin11

    derin11 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had a problem
    With my os so I reinstalled windows but now on startup it says choose from which operating system
    You want to load.

    Windows 7
    Windows 7

    Which tells
    Me I partitioned it somehow.

    What I want to do is wipe the whole harddrive and reinstall windows from the disc. How do I do it I can't figure it out
     
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    It now got to the end of the completing installation stage and it says.

    " windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computers' hardware" an then asks me to reinstall again...
     
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    Any ideas? This bothers me greatly, especially since it's a new machine
     
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    you bios is set to RAID therefor you need to install the raid drivers at the begining of the windows install
     
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    How do I get the raid drivers? And what's the easiest way of applying them
     
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    the raid drivers are on the dell site.....i think under the intel stuff....there is a part in the windows install at the begining where it says press F6 for additional drivers....put the drivers on a thumb driver and use one of the 2.0 ports (right side)....this will fix your issue
     
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    can someone please link me to the raid drivers? I need to get my system running again asap
     
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    can someone please link me to the raid drivers for my r3? I need to get my system running again asap
     
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    also why would my bios being in raid mode if i have a single hard drive?!?1
     
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