Hello,
I thought I would share some pretty good information with all of you fellow Razer Blade owners. Here is my story.
So I recently went RAID 0 on my Razer Blade 14". I made a USB Recovery drive before doing so. Only problem was, my Blade refused to boot from it! So I lost my stock config. I contacted support, long story short, they sent me a free USB Recovery drive. Best part of all? It is the stock config already upgraded to Windows 8.1 with all of the newest drivers.
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Did you asked for it?
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Thanks for the tip! I'll try this out next week..
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It's nice of razer to provide you with a free recovery drive if you're experiencing problems
However, purposely calling customer support and lying about a situation to get the free recovery drive is not something we want to see our members encourage in their posts, it falls under the warranty fraud part of the rules. We can't tell you what to do and what not to do outside of NBR, but it's our job to insure that posts fall within the forum rules.
Who knows, razer might just send you the recovery USB for free if you ask them considering that the blade is a premium product, this level of support can be expected.James D, Mr. Fox, anytimer and 1 other person like this. -
Razer talks about this item in their FAQ, but for some reason it is not sold in their online store.
I'm surprised it does not ship with the laptop, considering these things only cost $5 a pop or less when purchased in bulk and have negligible weight when packaged with the laptop.Mr. Fox likes this. -
Same with Dell/Alienware... If you call Tech Support and simply ask for it, they will generally send it for free. It's not offered for sale. I believe they cannot technically provide it as an upgrade to an existing Windows 7 license.
I think there may be some sort of restriction in their deal with Micro$oft from Windows 8 forward where distributing OS installation media is discouraged. It's really stupid, but they are probably doing what Micro$oft has asked them to do in this regard. The big push from Micro$oft seems to be forcing customers to create image recovery media for a factory OS restore instead of being able to do a clean OS install. -
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Thanks for the heads up man!
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Just so everyone knows, this is no scam. This isn't poor practice. I saw this and contacted Razer and told them it is not need just yet by me, but it would be nice to have. This was their respose:
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So that means you can get one of these and delete the recorvery partition on your hard drive? That should clear up a nice 16gb!
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Hey i did the same thing to razer sent me the recovery stick's it worked on my razer 14 but i cant get the one for my razer blade pro to run at all any help please thats the computer that i use in school />
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Hey i did the same thing to razer sent me the recovery stick's it worked on my razer 14 but i cant get the one for my razer blade pro to run at all any help please thats the computer that i use in school it gose to a BLANK BLUE screen then turns off ot wont evean work with windows 8.1 installd from my windows dvd
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Got mine today! Hope not to need it for awhile.
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Do they deliver it to the UK? Because the blade is not sold here.
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Get a FREE USB Recovery Drive directly from Razer
Discussion in 'Razer' started by Viralistic, Nov 9, 2013.