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    Respawn questions

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by indigo_dc, Aug 2, 2011.

  1. indigo_dc

    indigo_dc Notebook Enthusiast

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    Got my m17xr3 yesterday and it's glorious!

    However, it's now prompting me to generate a respawn disk which I'm assuming is their recovery CD thing. However, I've now installed a handful of games too - the respawn will only backup the OS install not the games wont it?
     
    indigo_dc, Aug 2, 2011
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  2. pmassey31545

    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    Short answer-yes. The Respawn will take the computer back to "Factory" settings the way it was when you opened it up and powered it on. You can do it on a USB also which is much faster-backing up and reinstalling. You need an 8Gb USB drive though. Well worth the 12-15$ it would cosy to get a new one.

    If you want to do a system backup with all your games and programs, you can do that with the Windows backup utility. I have found it to work darn good. Ohters say use Acronis or the like. I have found the Windows program to be sufficient.
     
    pmassey31545, Aug 2, 2011
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  3. mark_j

    mark_j Notebook Consultant

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    I am pretty sure it just makes a bootable copy of the factory recovery partition on your hard drive.
     
    mark_j, Aug 2, 2011
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