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.

    Urgent help needed M17x R3 hard drive died and no recovery disks

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by steve6380, Aug 30, 2013.

  1. steve6380

    steve6380 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hello can any one help need to rebuild this machine have a copy of windows 7 however when trying to install wont recognize hard drive, Seagate 80GB

    Also cant access Hive as friends computer and he bought refurbished from Dell and out of warranty.

    any one got an idiots guide or steps taken to rebuild one?

    Steve
     
    steve6380, Aug 30, 2013
    #1
  2. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    7,172
    Messages:
    10,077
    Likes Received:
    1,122
    Trophy Points:
    581
    steviejones133, Aug 30, 2013
    #2
  3. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

    Reputations:
    2,377
    Messages:
    5,040
    Likes Received:
    277
    Trophy Points:
    251
    Smallest Hard Drive the r3 ever shipped with was a 320gb hard drive. How did you end up with an 80gb?
     
    bigtonyman, Aug 30, 2013
    #3
  4. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

    Reputations:
    3,658
    Messages:
    6,874
    Likes Received:
    969
    Trophy Points:
    281
    Can we have your full specs?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Sep 4, 2013
    #4