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    M18XR2 WON'T BOOT AFTER WINDOWS UPDATE

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by anarky321, May 12, 2016.

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    was working perfect - it still sees the msata in boot options but won't boot

    any ideas??? i boot off the msata normally
     
    anarky321, May 12, 2016
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    just a word of advice - make your recovery usb disk BEFORE you have problems like this, im lucky enough to have the same OS on my thinkpad so i used a USB drive to recover and fix the boot manager - i have no clue which windows update caused this
     
    anarky321, May 12, 2016
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