Windows 8 Alienrespawn

Hi I'm having problems with Aleinrespawn. I have a m17x r4 that came with windows 7 but I have purchased Windows 8.

I have done a clean install of Windows 8 using the UEFI way. After setting up the computer I tried to install Alienrespawn but it gives me an error saying "AlienRespawn has not been able to detect the Recovery Partition on this computer."

Am I supposed to do something during install of Windows 8?

thanks for any help

 

Do you have enough unallocated space on the HDD for it to be able to create one?

 

This is a common problem with Windows 8 if you have a drive that is missing the proprietary factory partitions. Alien Respawn fails to install because there is no Windows Recovery Environment. Just use Acronis True Image or Macrium Reflect instead and you won't need to waste drive space on a recovery partition. I spent a TON of time fixing this on Windows 8 and although I was able to make it work, it is far more trouble that it is worth.

Unless Brother Porras has a link to a newer revision of the Windows 8 flavor of Alien Respawn, the Windows 8 version I have will fail at every attempt. It will not install from scratch on a new HDD/SSD like the Windows 7 version does. If there is a new revision out that actually works, that would be awesome information. What I ultimately did with success was image the proprietary OEM partitions and restored those image partitions to a new SSD before installing Windows 8. After doing that Alien Respawn installed successfully without issues or errors on every attempt.

 

I got it to work on windows 8 it finally started but it will only backup to dvds or and external disk. And even than only the paid version allows for a complete backup. I didn't do anything except re installed it and it worked.

 

Using an Acronis True Image boot CD is definitely the way to do it, then you don't even have to waste space and resources having Acronis True Image installed in Windows. Have been doing it this way for years.