Hi,
Basicly everywhere i've searched leads me to this forum! so any help appreciated!
Long story short, my copy of windows 7 decided to go wrong...Tried installing it again with the disk that comes with the laptop and the cd was scratched beyond use
does the M14x come with a image on the recovery partition already?? i've installed vista for now but when i view the recovery partition and show hidden files all i can see is a few small files![]()
I've tried using the vista cd in repair mode to find the image with no luck, im in the process of downloading windows 7 what are the chances of using that to restore it back to how it was?
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I'll try to help you but just curious...
The DVD the M14x came with came scratched already or it had an accident?
The M14x does come with a recovery partition called (Alienrespawn) but if you installed Vista over the original Windows 7 copy installed (like you are stating), you might have deleted the recovery partition.
When the computer boots, Press F8 repeatedly and go into "Repair your computer" or "repair windows" I can't remember which one it is.
Then select Alienrespawn which should be the last option.
If it's not there then you might have deleted the recovery partition. -
thanks,
It came scratched! id never used it before and was still sealed yet i took it out and was badly sctrached
Well When installing vista i left the recovery partition intake, however the copy of vista is not from dell so surely no alienrespawn option would show? -
Ah just found... http://forum.notebookreview.com/6936655-post11.html
i run the checker and it says success, fingers crossed! -
Ok setup fails "RPSetup error 1" I checked the log and i see
[2011-05-26 22:03:08] INFORMATION : Factory.WIM/BASE.WIM/BASE.INP not found
This is stupid because there is 6GB of space used on the recovery partition so on there somewhere should be the restore image -
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Question: Why did you install Vista over Windows 7?
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Ah. Well then I'd take your advice, and just download another copy of Win7.
Don't upgrade though. You loose a fair chunk of performance if you do that. You're much better off doing a clean install.
Recovery Partition
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Robc90, May 26, 2011.