re-installing windows 7 64 bit

Hi

i have been having some probs with my m11x (freezing) and i now wish to install the beta version of windows 7 64 bit - starting from scratch.

i have the disc but no disc drive or no access to a portable one... i do have an 8gb usb tho. ive looked around online but dont know how to transfer the files or iso from the disc over to my usb.

can any1 kindly help?

Mark

 

What to do with your USB flash drive: Install Windows 7 | How To - CNET

This would work.

 

that worked, thanks ! now all the windows files r onto my usb drive.

it mentioned at the end makign sure the bios runs form usb or sumthing... how exactly do i do this? and then isit as simple as restarting..pressing f12 then run from windows + follow the onscreen instructions ?

 

http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe

Good tool to create a bootable USB from ISO, saves all that Diskpart hassle

 

alrdy tried that and cudnt find the iso image on the disk to mount

thanks anyway mate

 

yep just hit f12 and the select USB and go from there

 

I hope it isn't actually the beta you are installing...

 

im installed whatever is on the alienware windows 7 disk u get with it

 

im installing ****

 

Beta Win7x64?

 

heh have fun with that, installing the drivers in a pain in the

 

ive re-installed all the drivers and i think its back to the way i had it. lets hope i dont get this freezing anymore.

and just a little thing ive noticed...i think my battery life has been reduced by about an hour or so since i re-installed windows + then the dell drivers...would any1 know why this would be the case?

 

When I installed Windows 7 fresh I too saw a significant drop in Battery Bar and 7's own estimate for batter life. This after a couple of months of using it with the stock image and the same exact usage patterns each day. Same tweaks to services and drivers before and after. No idea what caused that.

People like to recommend flattening your system and installing the OS and drivers fresh, and in a lot of cases, for a lot of notebooks that come with boatloads of bloatware, that's usually good advice. However the stock image that Alienware loads on the m11x is about as good as it gets in terms of out-of-the-box configurations. Yes, there are absolutely some things you can tweak in order to eek out a little bit more performance and/or battery life, but the gains aren't nearly as significant as what some here would have you believe.

 

Strange, but I actually got increased battery life after I clean installed windows and the drivers.

 

so is there anything i can do to perk up my barrery life again? i think it's solved the problem of my system crashing as it hasnt yet....but ive noticed a definite 60-90 minutes decline in bat-life

 

i've just done the system test too....and all the scores are the same except the two graphic ones. Before my windows re-install they were both 6.5 now they are both 6.3

what the ? i dnt want to have to ring up dell again + spend horus on the phone

 

how do you measure your battery life(do you base the decrease in actual usage or using windows/ software such as batterybar)? Does the discharge rate increase significantly (using batterybar?)
btw, do you have datasafe/alienrespawn installed now? they're quite a resource hog so turning it off will help boosting your battery

most likely driver problem though I will not care much about WEI until I can really feel the performance decrease
btw, what NVDIA version are you using now?

 

thanks for the reply.

im merely measuring battery life by how long it says i have left while generally browsing the web....and watching a film on HD or streaming. I always have the screen on the lowest or 2nd lowest dim and no alienFX. Before the install i got around 7 hours...now it seems to be 5 and a half or 6.

i just installed the NVIDIA driver from the dell website. the only drivers i have installed are from that website since the re-install of windows 7.

 

i'm assuming you have an r3?
if you really want to squeeze more juice of your battery, you can tweak some power setting and background programs, update the driver with one from NVidia and Intel. I got around 30 minutes more with them.

 

nono i have an r1 ! core 2 duo, 4gb ram and the nvidia 335m.

im pretty sure now the crashing has stopped. so the 'image' or something the dell people said must of been dodgy in some way...so the fresh installation of windows has fixed that. if i get my battery life and video drivers sorted and upto scratch im a happy customer