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    AlienRespawn / Recovery Partition

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by pollus.emnauel, Apr 7, 2012.

  1. pollus.emnauel

    pollus.emnauel Newbie

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    Hello everyone! This is my first post and I will explain my problem with the words of another person from Dell community, because the same thing happened to me: Unable to restore an M11x

    "My lovely new Alienware M11x was delivered last week and after playing with it for a while, I had to install a bunch of things to do a demo. Demo over, I looked at all the things I had to uninstall and thought - "Hah! Easy - I'll just factory restore the thing" plugged in an external DVD drive, stuffed in the disk that came with the machine, rebooted and let it install. Uh oh. I now have an Alienware M11x with a basic, completely standard installation of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit There's no drivers installed. No Dell applications installed. No nice backdrops. No Alienware applications. Nothing. Zip. Nada. The only "customization" is an Alienware logo in the System Properties."

    So I used the same solution offered in the following post on that topic:
    - Copied "ImageX.exe" from another computer with this app
    - From F8 option, used the prompt to run ImageX.exe who was on a stick
    - Used the "Factory.win" that was still in the RECOVERY partition
    "G:\Imagex.exe /APPLY C:\Dell\Image\Factory.win 1 D:\"

    In my case, C: was the RECOVERY partition, G: was my stick and D: was my OS partition...

    After that the system returned to its factory state, but with only one "problem": AlienRespawn does not recognize the partition RECOVERY anymore...

    I would like to know some way to resume normal operation AlienRespawn.
    Can i do something in Windows 7 to set the RECOVERY partition visible again?
    It's still there, but now without the letter identification, only the name RECOVERY.
    In "Disk Manager" can see all partitions, and I set up a letter to partition RECOVERY, yet the AlienRespawn does not recognize the partition.
    Can someone tell to me what is the original letter of RECOVERY partition and OS partition?
    The basic version of AlienRespawn just turn the computer to factory state?
    So if I have a pendrive with "Factory.win" and "ImageX.exe", can I give up AlienRespaw and RECOVERY partition?
    To make new images of the system is better AlienRespawn Premium or Windows Backup? Or something else? Norton Ghost?
    I'm thinking in researching more about ImageX to create images of the updated system ... someone knows well this program? Recommended?

    I know that the current problem was the loss of MBR, someone would make available an image of the original MBR? So I could replace and see if it worked ...
    I also found another topic on the Dell community with another solution for a case "like" with my: Updated Windows and lost AlienRespawn

    In this case, you upgraded Windows XP to Seven and thereby lost AlienRespawn, then the Dell recommends installing AlienRespawn again to recognize the partition again.
    I even do that, but I can not download anything from "my download" ...
    If someone could provide the installer for AlienRespawn M11x R2 would be great!
    Well, that's it, thank you in advance for your attention.

    And a question nothing to do with the topic, I just created my user and typed wrong my login name in the registry: pollus.emnauel but is supposed to be pollus.emanuel, can I change this?
     
  2. nuaron

    nuaron Notebook Consultant

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    well, when you tried to restore system using other methods, probably some drive flags got changed in the process. If the partition is still intact, uninstall the alienrespawn software, download alienrespawn. In first step, it will download the checker that will check for the partition. Once it finds the parition, it will tell you to download the software. ( keep the webpage open after downloading the checker)

    Maybe once you reinstall the alienrespawn, it will detect your recovery partition once again.