Alienrespawn Help (another respawn thread)

Hi everyone!

I've been reading a lot and find this forum very helpful but now Im stuck... I have an Alienware M11XR2... About 3 months ago I installed Fedora Gnome 3, but a couple of days ago I wanted to remove the partition and Grub2 so I could have one HDD for windows and one for linux... Anyways here is what went down>>

1) logged to windows and entered computer management>Disk Management
2) removed all linux partitions, left the recovery, C:, and OEM partitions intact
3) installed EasyBCD and corrected the MBR to windows7 thus removing grub
4) tried to do a factory install using Alienrespawn and the recovery parititon... Failed, the respawn didnt give the choice to rerstore (it wasnt seeing the partition) and entering ther boot menu didnt give me alienrespawn either (entering F8 or with Windows recovery disk from a friend)
5) uninstalled and reinstalled alienrespawn, it now gives me the option to restore to factory settings but when I click restart it reboot as it should but goes directly to windows...it pretty much reboots and doesnt care about the respawn and goes directly to windows...
6) booted to the repair mode and entered the command prompt, I used bootrec to reinstall the BCD clean, same thing happens...

Any ideas or sugestions? I've googling and searching the forum with a couple of close calls but want to know if there is an easier way than to ... extract recovery partition .wim using 7-zip>place in new empty NTFS partition to house windows...

Thanks for the input!

BTW I can still boot to my windows partition and everything is fine...

Bump.... Need some help

 

Here's a step by step guide on how to use Alienrespawn.

If AlienRespawn is looping back to windows it may be corrupted or just not-functional. My recommendation would be to do a Clean Windows 7 installation, then install AlienRespawn once all the drivers are up.

Alienware M11x R2: Initial Drivers installation

 

So you think a clean Win7 install, then install alienrespawn and the run it to restore the factory settings would work?

I was thinking on accessing the recovery partition via command prompt and expanding the .wim manually to C:
Any thoughts on this? Never done it before

 

This never happens (goes directly to windows):


For the clean install Im missing the Alienware Microsoft Windows 7 Disk... I can get a hold of a win7 disc but would like to have factory settings...

Would extracting the .wim from the recovery partition to C: work?

 

Not sure, haven't tried that method. A clean install won't roll back to factory settings, a clean install will delete everything, you'll have to download and install the drivers from the link I provided above. But, once all the drivers are up, when you install AlienRespawn it will create a recovery partition with the updated drivers you recently installed. Then, if eventually you need to roll back, it will restore to these settings.

It may not be the fastest way but it will let you have your recovery partition working and done your way.

 

i tried to expand the image...

from the command prompt I can see the image.. d:/dell/image/Factory.wim but I cannot expand it!!! I try to run the apply command with imagex but it says imagex not recognized!!!

imagex /apply d:/dell/image/Factory.wim 1 c:\

 

I got it!

Used hirens boot CD... booted to miniXP, formatted the OS partition and used GImagex to apply the Factory.wim
clean factory install

 

That's great! I'm glad that you got that working. Perhaps you can create a new thread with a guide on how to do that