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18 R1, Alienware recovery is lost
Hello,
I have a 2014 Alienware 18 R1 and accidently deleted the recovery partition. Now its not working as it should and I mostly wanted to get the Factory Reset. How to get this media please?
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Hello,
I have a 2014 Alienware 18 R1 and accidently deleted the recovery partition. Now its not working as it should and I mostly wanted to get the Factory Reset. How to get this media please?
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mattyb3
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March 26th, 2020 14:00
I have never had a need for it. If you have important data that you don't want to lose it's a good idea to back it up on an external drive. None of my machines have the partition anymore.
nyc10036
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March 23rd, 2020 14:00
Download Media Creation Tool on working PC.
sarwaro
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March 23rd, 2020 14:00
But I don't have the partition left and the tool must have a recovery partition to be able to create the bootable usb or cd. What I need is a factory reset software or a link to download it
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mattyb3
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March 24th, 2020 21:00
You can just do a fresh installation of Windows 10 using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool. You don't need a recovery partition. It will format your drive though. I've always found that a fresh Windows installation from Microsoft is the way to go.
sarwaro
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March 25th, 2020 06:00
You are right, but the fresh windows installation doesn't give the fabric mode taste in my opinion... otherwise I have already reinstalled windows twice... anywhere to download this media you think?
sarwaro
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March 25th, 2020 06:00
sarwaro
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March 25th, 2020 07:00
sarwaro
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March 25th, 2020 08:00
@nyc10036 I don't have a working pc....
mattyb3
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March 25th, 2020 13:00
I've never used the Recovery Tool. I just go straight to Microsoft. It seems your recovery option is now gone so you may have to go to Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10
sarwaro
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March 26th, 2020 11:00
ja you are right but onw more thing would help if some one has the Alienware computer and I get a copy of the recovery partition right?
mrgavinab
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June 7th, 2021 07:00
I bought a used Alienware . M18 dual 765 M, old beast like new but I am trying to get my command center working so I can control RGB it has windows 10 and it doesn't want to give me the drivers. Some articles say go back to windows 7. I need help I am trying to get this all set up for a service member who is suffering from PTSD ..any advise or help please my email is
mattyb3
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June 7th, 2021 14:00
Hello, Here is the latest version of Command Center for the 18
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=7yt4t&oscode=wt64a&productcode=alienware-18
I have had trouble installing this version on an 18 before but I found the previous version installed fine.
If you have trouble with version 3.6 then try 3.5 below
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=2hcgc
There is no need to go back to Win7. These work fine with Win10