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    Problem reinstalling M17x R3 on new SSD

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by gorgonzola, Dec 17, 2012.

  1. gorgonzola

    gorgonzola Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    I upgraded my laptop to a SSD a couple of months ago using an AWRespawn disc without too many problems. Now, I'm having to reinstall windows again on the SSD but it's not working using the same method as before. I've tried different options but it either freezes at the formatting partition stage or the Reinstalling your selected backup stage.

    Has anyone else experienced something similar?

    I would like to try formatting my SSD back to it's original settings but I don't know how. It's a SSD 830 256gb. Can someone help me please?
     
    gorgonzola, Dec 17, 2012
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    gorgonzola Notebook Guru

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    Now my original hard drive won't reinstall properly. It competes the installation process then when it asks to reboot i get a message saying

    PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM

    I've reset the BIOS to default settings and tried installing with the hard drive BIOS settings set to RAID and AHCI and still get the same error :-(
     
    gorgonzola, Dec 17, 2012
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  3. Joe85

    Joe85 Notebook Deity

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    Could be that your image is courrpted.

    Have you tried a clean isntall with the Windows 7 disk?
     
    Joe85, Dec 17, 2012
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