HOW TO: Preserve AlienRespawn - stock drive to aftermarket drive / AlienRespawn Q&A

[Tsunade_Hime]

I just created an account and proceeded straight to AlienRespawn. It's no biggie, I just did a clean install. I know ALOT of new Dell's with Sandy Bridge will only restore from discs/USB to the EXACT same sized HDD.

[Aiden1582]

Hey guys,

I'm having trouble using alienrespawn. I did a fresh install and then installed the Alienrespawn application. I also still have my recovery Partion untouched an it still can't find the Partion in the application.

Please help!

[BatBoy]

Hey guys,

I'm having trouble using alienrespawn. I did a fresh install and then installed the Alienrespawn application. I also still have my recovery Partion untouched an it still can't find the Partion in the application.

Please help!

Installing AlienRespawn after a clean install is a shot in the dark. Some have been able to do this while many meet with the same issue you describe. While I cannot confirm this will help (I haven't tested it), you might want to give this a shot -

Tutorial: make an up-to-date Alienware Respawn Image

Good luck!

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[unitardinventor]

"AlienRespawn cannot be installed because your hard drive does not have the Windows Recovery Environment"

DSLCheck.exe didn't have a problem when I ran it.

I haven't done any partitions. Can anyone help? Many thanks.

I then got some input from CGSDR before my thread got moved to a dead thread. . .

Quote:
Originally Posted by CGSDR View Post
This happen only IF you have delete the recovery drive, because AlienRespawn is just a plain system image/recovery creator program, so it need the recovery drive to create the system image, so did you accidentally delete it?

To which I responded. . .

Nope. I did not do anything with the recovery drive. Could it be that I bought it refurbished? The recovery drive is there and I've never once touched it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[oanis]

HI.
hmm i wanted to know if alienrespawn updates the factory image time to time???i have a m18x and was updating alien respawn and noticed a small window opened which had 4 processes and the last one was i think 'updating image'.... Any clues?

Hello,
If i delete the recovery partition and install the factory image from the dvd which i created using alienrespawn will it create the recovery partition again????also i could see the recovery partition in my computer after my external hdd got stuck, when i restarted it the recovery partition disappered... It never use to show up but dunno y it did at that time..any guesses
Thanks in advance

[nall]

So after re-installing Windows using the discs Alienware gave me ALienRespawn has left the building.

Is there a way for me to get it back?

(I know it is for recovery, I'm just asking.)

[katalin_2003]

Hello, nall, If you chose to format the drive when you installed Windows, the recovery partition is gone.

[nall]

I never formatted the drive, I just installed over an old Windows then deleted Windows.old using disc clean up.

But if it is gone, it's gone.

[steviejones133]

So after re-installing Windows using the discs Alienware gave me ALienRespawn has left the building.

Is there a way for me to get it back?

(I know it is for recovery, I'm just asking.)

Hello, nall, If you chose to format the drive when you installed Windows, the recovery partition is gone.

If you created recovery media right at the outset (eg. right after you unboxed your machine and set it up), I'm pretty sure you can use those disks/usb's to recover the "factory condition" even if you have formatted the drive. Respawn creates a factory image so it *should* restore those factory drives to that state - including the recovery partition.

I'm pretty sure I did the same thing with my old R2 - wiped all the partitions and then restored fully via recovery media.

[singkuy]

quick question.

i just made an alienrespawn cd. I left my computer and when i went back it said that there was an error and i should reinsert the disc. i tried doing that but the same thing happened. I checked the disc and it was 6+gb full(which is the amount for the alien respawn) and the disc drive recognized it as alien respawn.

How do i verify if the alienrespawn disc was successfully made?

Thanks!

ps. i tried creating another disc and it stopped writing after 30%. activity log shows "failed or cancelled". i'm using philips double layer dvd+r 8.5gb

can anyone help? ill also try this on a usb stick when i get one this week.