Most of this guide is obsolete and has been updated in Dell Backup and Recovery 1. Alienware users should use Alienware Respawn. It is essentially the same program with a different skin.
Part 3 is recommended only for users who had bad factory settings, a corrupt partition or factory setup error 5. I also recommend all users who had their system shipped with Windows 8.
The system will perform much better. My tutorial videos mention these newer technologies and you may or may not have them depending on the age of your system. Dell note the date of their systems on their FTP Website:. Windows 7 64 Bit does not support SecureBoot and it should hence be disabled.
There are two forms of Recovery media which can be made with Dell Backup and Recovery. The Rescue Disk is recommended by Dell however systems that are older than do not have the capabilities to boot from an external hard drive. It however works well in my test, so I recommend using the same USB flash drive as I used if you have difficulty with other vendors. It is also possible to create a set of Factory Backup DVDs but this is very problematic and is not recommended in any case. If you have performed a clean installation, then upon installation Dell Backup and Recovery will create a new factory partition based on your clean installation.
The video below is displayed in two formats, natively on WordPress and also on YouTube. Ensure to select HD to the top right or watch on YouTube with the maximum video quality for best results:. This is not factory settings but a clean installation of Windows 7 with specialised software for our laboratory. Dell Backup and Recovery when installed on a clean installation will make a recovery image of the clean installation. Hi Phillip, my inspiron has a 'missing or corrupted' recovery partition for no apparent reason I haven't done anything wrong.
I tried your tutorial but after uninstalling dell backup and recovery there was no way to reinstall it because of the 'missing' recovery environment. Since I did nothing and the data seem to be there, is it possible that I could somehow restore the recovery partition? What if I copy the recovery partition from another ?
Dell-David F looks regularly for Dell Backup and Recovery issues and may have some additional suggestions. I believe the latest version was meant to solve some of these issues after updating to Windows 8.
You might be better off performing a clean install and then installing Dell Backup and Recovery after Windows 8. After doing these two things, you can try to see if you can restore to factory settings via the internal partition. Thanks a lot for taking the time and trouble to write a thorough answer! I've already done my backups after finishing with 8. I just hoped for a more automated procedure with dell backup and recovery. Get a USB flash drive, the DVD method as you have already experienced is far too unreliable and you can see first hand one of the reasons why I don't recommend it.
Furthermore, you could restore system to factory settings if you created system backup once for Dell Alienware computer after your purchase. Why Backup Alienware Computers? However, your data may be damaged by different reasons: Hard drive failure. Virus attack. Power outage. Natural calamities, Fire and others. With the help of AlienRespawn, you could: Perform Alienware factory reset.
Create rescue medias for your Dell computer. Backup your data , or system. Here is how to backup Alienware computers: 1. If you want to access AlienRespawn during system boot while system boot failure, please refer to: 1. Alienware Respawn only support Windows 7, 8, 8. Do you need any more help? Have you solved your problem?
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