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    Booted on recovery partition on accident!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Ch0bo42, Jun 21, 2011.

  1. Ch0bo42

    Ch0bo42 Notebook Guru

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    that doesn't exisT!!

    I am wondering What command I can type to reverse this.

    I did these commands

    If you still have Recovery Partition, you can recovery it easily.

    1. Run cmd in administrator mode.
    2. Type "diskpart" (without quote)
    3. Type "list disk"
    4. Type "select disk 0"
    5. Type "list partition"
    You can see 1 partition have label OEM (this is recovery partition)
    6. Type "select partition X" ( X is number of OEM partition. It can is 3. You type "select partition 3")
    7. Type "active"

    Reboot laptop. It will boot by partition recovery.

    Good luck

    Because I though i could access my alienware spawn, but now im stuck on dmrk thing with where it says

    C>


    I am wondering what command I can type to boot back into windows 7! please help!
     
  2. lucretius

    lucretius Notebook Guru

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    The OEM partition and the Recovery partition are different partitions. Although the Windows OS is on the OS (C) partition, the boot file is located on the Recovery partition, not the OEM partition. You will need to make the Recovery partition the active partition. If you do not have access to the diskpart command, then you will need a CD (Windows or recovery CD) so that you can make the Recovery partition the active one.

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