windows 10 iso contains install.wim file that is too big for fat32
Microsoft ISO files for Windows 10 1809 1903 1909 are bigger than 4.7GB in total and contain an install.wim with a size larger than 4 GB. This does not allow creating for example an USB stick with FAT32 file system and would require use of EXFAT or NTFS instead.
boot under UEFI will fail
not all systems are able to boot from external USB FLASH boot media using EXFAT or NTFS.
The Dell support site seems to have removed the Alienware OS Recovery image from the available downloads. I thought I downloaded it last week to recover from an OS boot-up failure (about 568MB) but I am unable to find it today. I am hoping someone still has a copy of the file and would be so kind as to forward it to me. Thank you very much.
My Aurora Alienware tower was working fine for at least the last 6 years, no problems. A few weeks ago, the system failed to boot, 5 beeps on boot-up (from POST), telling me it's a Real Time Clock failure. Replaced the battery, twice, no luck. Looked like a motherboard failure. Ordered a 'new' one, which was dead on arrival. Ordered another 'new' motherboard. Came with a CPU and 24GB RAM. Replaced the power supply. Powered up OK with the original RAID 0, two drive, 1TB array. I needed to retrieve some files off the array immediately. I put a new 500 GB SATA drive in Slot 3 and cloned the array to it. I swapped the positions of the 2 array drives with the SATA drive, set the drive configuration the BIOS to AHCI and the system booted up. Worked for a couple of days. Decided to reformat the RAID drives. Then came disaster! On bootup, no POST beeps, black screen, hard drive activity light flashing on a more or less regular basis. Removed the RAID drives, leaving just the new 500 GB drive with the cloned Windows 7 configuration and my previously installed programs on it. No Dell Logo or splash screen. Ordered, but have not yet arrived, a new keyboard, a new video card and another new 500 GB hard drive and a 64GB flash drive. What do you suggest at this point? I was thinking of trying to set up a bootable Windows 7 (or some other version) on the new, as yet to be received 500 GB hard drive. On boot up re-configuring the BIOS to treat the original two 500 GB drives as a RAID 0 array (in slots 1 and 2) and booting to them, if they are still intact. Then cloning them to the other 500 GB drive that may have failed or gotten corrupted.
Tried the OS Recovery Tool but it asked for my Service Tag. When I entered it, it said no OS images available.
Tried the keyincloud.zip file. No response at all.
I guess I did not make it clear about how I plan to use the computer. I was in the coin-operated games business for about 25 years. I sold, serviced and operated pinball machines, video games, jukeboxes and other amusement devices that were commercial products. I currently have several jukeboxes and video games in my home. I would like to play some of the old video games using the MAME emulator. The Aurora Alienware PC is connected to a 55" flat screen TV. I am also acquiring and/or building a full size 4-player gaming console. Therefore, I really don't care which OS is running nor do I need an internet connection. It will be a stand-alone gaming machine. So what I am really asking someone for is a little help in getting the computer back up and running as it was a couple of weeks ago. I would like the contents of the RAID array to be saved and then I then all I will need is a spinning hard drive to store all of my emulator and ROM programs. Thank you for any help you can provide in my quest to resurrect my computer.
Actually, I have MAME (and lots of ROMs ) on my Aurora-R1 (also VPinMAME and Visual-Pinball) .
However, I'm not sure I have run it since I upgraded to Window-10 Pro 64bit years ago. Would you like me to test it for you ?
You still never said what Release (R1-R8) of Aurora you have . Not sure how you would not know. But if not, tell me what Intel main-processor is installed.
I believe it's an R1 with an Intel i7 930 CPU, 24 GB RAM and a Cross Fire ATi Radeon 5670 video system. It has 2 DVD optical drives. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium and two 500 GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 array.
What kind of a gaming control panel are you using? I was thinking of a 2-player console with all the inputs; joysticks, trackballs, spinners and buttons and maybe a light gun, if that's even possible.
1. I believe it's an R1 with an Intel i7 930 CPU, 24 GB RAM and a Cross Fire ATi Radeon 5670 video system. It has 2 DVD optical drives.
2. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium
3. and two 500 GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 array.
4. What kind of a gaming control panel are you using? I was thinking of a 2-player console with all the inputs; joysticks, trackballs, spinners and buttons and maybe a light gun, if that's even possible.
1. Yes, sounds like an Aurora-R1.
2. Right. Upgrade it to Windows-10 64bit (yes, it is still free). Windows-10 should toss you an AMD Catalyst video driver that still barely works (even though that card is depreciated). I have a AMD-5670 in my HTPC (Kodi and Steam games).
3. Still say a non-RAID-ed SATA SSD is faster. Clean-install without Intel-RST .
4. I just MAME on my computers (no cabinet). You know, there are whole threads on (more appropriate) forums that talk all about building MAME cabinets. I also saw some YouTube videos a while back.
speedstep
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February 3rd, 2020 15:00
568MB is not a recovery image. OS recovery is 5gigs up to 8 gigs.
only 1803 and earlier fit on single dvd.
1809 1903 and 1909 install.wim requires DUAL LAYER 8.4 Gig DVD.
16 or 32 gig FAT32 is requred.
EXFAT and NTFS do not support F12 UEFI booting.
windows 10 iso contains install.wim file that is too big for fat32
Microsoft ISO files for Windows 10 1809 1903 1909 are bigger than 4.7GB in total and contain an install.wim with a size larger than 4 GB. This does not allow creating for example an USB stick with FAT32 file system and would require use of EXFAT or NTFS instead.
boot under UEFI will fail
not all systems are able to boot from external USB FLASH boot media using EXFAT or NTFS.
https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln313422/windows-10-iso-contains-wim-file-that-is-big-for-fat32-file-system?lang=en
Tesla1856
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February 3rd, 2020 15:00
Well, if you made the Recovery Drive (on USB flash-drive ... from the system itself) ... that should work.
Personally, I think I would just do it like this:
https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R7-M-2-NVMe-bootable-options/m-p/6073081/highlight/true#M3401
r72019
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February 4th, 2020 09:00
You mean this link:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/osiso/recoverytool
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/drivers/KeyInCloud
kahunadude
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February 5th, 2020 18:00
Here is my sad story:
My Aurora Alienware tower was working fine for at least the last 6 years, no problems. A few weeks ago, the system failed to boot, 5 beeps on boot-up (from POST), telling me it's a Real Time Clock failure. Replaced the battery, twice, no luck. Looked like a motherboard failure. Ordered a 'new' one, which was dead on arrival. Ordered another 'new' motherboard. Came with a CPU and 24GB RAM. Replaced the power supply. Powered up OK with the original RAID 0, two drive, 1TB array. I needed to retrieve some files off the array immediately. I put a new 500 GB SATA drive in Slot 3 and cloned the array to it. I swapped the positions of the 2 array drives with the SATA drive, set the drive configuration the BIOS to AHCI and the system booted up. Worked for a couple of days. Decided to reformat the RAID drives. Then came disaster! On bootup, no POST beeps, black screen, hard drive activity light flashing on a more or less regular basis. Removed the RAID drives, leaving just the new 500 GB drive with the cloned Windows 7 configuration and my previously installed programs on it. No Dell Logo or splash screen. Ordered, but have not yet arrived, a new keyboard, a new video card and another new 500 GB hard drive and a 64GB flash drive. What do you suggest at this point? I was thinking of trying to set up a bootable Windows 7 (or some other version) on the new, as yet to be received 500 GB hard drive. On boot up re-configuring the BIOS to treat the original two 500 GB drives as a RAID 0 array (in slots 1 and 2) and booting to them, if they are still intact. Then cloning them to the other 500 GB drive that may have failed or gotten corrupted.
Tried the OS Recovery Tool but it asked for my Service Tag. When I entered it, it said no OS images available.
Tried the keyincloud.zip file. No response at all.
Tesla1856
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February 5th, 2020 22:00
1. What Release/model ?
2. That is not for machines that shipped with Windows-7
3. Stop messing with Windows-7, cloning, RAIDs. Also spinning HDDs (as everyone uses SSDs for their C-Drives now-days).
kahunadude
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February 6th, 2020 16:00
I guess I did not make it clear about how I plan to use the computer. I was in the coin-operated games business for about 25 years. I sold, serviced and operated pinball machines, video games, jukeboxes and other amusement devices that were commercial products. I currently have several jukeboxes and video games in my home. I would like to play some of the old video games using the MAME emulator. The Aurora Alienware PC is connected to a 55" flat screen TV. I am also acquiring and/or building a full size 4-player gaming console. Therefore, I really don't care which OS is running nor do I need an internet connection. It will be a stand-alone gaming machine. So what I am really asking someone for is a little help in getting the computer back up and running as it was a couple of weeks ago. I would like the contents of the RAID array to be saved and then I then all I will need is a spinning hard drive to store all of my emulator and ROM programs. Thank you for any help you can provide in my quest to resurrect my computer.
Tesla1856
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February 6th, 2020 18:00
Actually, I have MAME (and lots of ROMs ) on my Aurora-R1 (also VPinMAME and Visual-Pinball) .
However, I'm not sure I have run it since I upgraded to Window-10 Pro 64bit years ago. Would you like me to test it for you ?
You still never said what Release (R1-R8) of Aurora you have . Not sure how you would not know. But if not, tell me what Intel main-processor is installed.
kahunadude
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February 6th, 2020 19:00
I believe it's an R1 with an Intel i7 930 CPU, 24 GB RAM and a Cross Fire ATi Radeon 5670 video system. It has 2 DVD optical drives. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium and two 500 GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 array.
What kind of a gaming control panel are you using? I was thinking of a 2-player console with all the inputs; joysticks, trackballs, spinners and buttons and maybe a light gun, if that's even possible.
Tesla1856
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February 6th, 2020 21:00
1. Yes, sounds like an Aurora-R1.
2. Right. Upgrade it to Windows-10 64bit (yes, it is still free). Windows-10 should toss you an AMD Catalyst video driver that still barely works (even though that card is depreciated). I have a AMD-5670 in my HTPC (Kodi and Steam games).
3. Still say a non-RAID-ed SATA SSD is faster. Clean-install without Intel-RST .
4. I just MAME on my computers (no cabinet). You know, there are whole threads on (more appropriate) forums that talk all about building MAME cabinets. I also saw some YouTube videos a while back.
NickMx
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July 23rd, 2020 03:00
Mine was giving the same problem. Repeated attempts until I VPN'd into the US, then it started working. I'm in Japan.
tommy333
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July 23rd, 2020 04:00
Sorry I'm not having or else i should have shared it.