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May 22nd, 2014 19:00
Alienrespawn cannot initialize external harddisk
Hi,
I am a alienrespawn premium user and used to back up my system to a Seagate Backup+ 3TB hard drive. Previously the alienrespawn converted to my hard drive partition table to MBR and rendered 1TB of my free space unusable. while trying to re-partition the hard disk with some non-loss method, I made a mistake and ruined the partition table. So I go to windows disk manager, delete everything, repartitioned using MBR for the alienrespawn to initialize it again.
How ever alienrespawn will give an "An error has occurred" message no matter I plug in the hard drive into USB 2.0 or 3.0 port, prepare first with GPT or MBR, adjusting size from the minimun required 100GB to largest possible 3TB(GPT) or 2TB(MBR). usb hard drive is free of defects, alienrespawn is updated into the latest version, I have full knowledge of how it is supposed to be used so please do not give those official documentation links again.
I appreciate ur assistance and hope to hear from u soon
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AndrewSi
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May 24th, 2014 17:00
Hi, I've had similar problems in the past, sometime almost exactly as you describe, sometimes slightly different.
The only "solution" that I have found is doing a complete re-installation of windows, making sure to delete all partitions during installation, install all drivers in correct order, install any programs, desktop icon and wallpaper you want to include in your recovery partition, update windows and restart then re-install alien re-spawn then restart.
Upon restart alien re-spawn will re-create a new recovery partition for you, with ANY programs you like.
Not a good solution I know, but unfortunately alien re-spawn is a bit average, even the premium version
Tesla1856
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May 24th, 2014 19:00
Agreed.
I also suggest OP should clean install and then Image System with something more dependable and supported. Maybe Acronis, Ghost, Macrium ... whatever (read reviews and pick one).
Even Windows-7 has a free one:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-programs-system-settings-files#1TC=windows-7
And while better than nothing ... portability, archiving, logging, etc. is all lacking so one of the above is a better long-range solution, IMHO.
Alienware-Naomi
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May 29th, 2014 10:00
Hi frostnova,
Try to do a clean Windows installation as recommended on the posts above. Follow the steps-by-step instrucctions on this video to re-install. After you've installed the OS, follow the order on this article to install the drivers.