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Alienware Respawn does not work even with recovery partition
Hello everyone. I have an Alienware m17x R2 and I'm trying to restore it to factory settings.
Here is my problem:
- Upon reboot into "System Recovery Options" (F8), "Alienware Respawn" is not listed under "Command Prompt
More importantly, here is some important background information: (Things I have already done)
- Downloaded and executed "DSLCheck.exe" to ensure Alienware Respawn would work.
- Downloaded and executed "Alienware Respawn Premium" from within Windows 7 X64
- Selected "Restore Entire System" (Alienware Respawn said this: "Your computer will be restored to the way it was on 1/13/2013 10:37AM (Factory Image)"
- Clicked "Restart" to start the restoration process
- Selected my keyboard, logged into my account, and now we see my problem above.
- Side note: When I enter Disk Management within Windows 7, I see three partitions, a 39MB unnamed partition (The partition that Windows reserves when it installs, I imagine), a 12.15GB partition labeled "RECOVERY", and my main partition. So, this is to clear up the idea that I deleted my partition, as I did not; I can see it within Windows 7.
Any help with this strange issue would be much appreciated. I am knowledgeable with Windows 7 and computers in general, so if you have a solution that involves a technical procedure, please post it, as I will be able to (Most likely) understand your recommendation.
Thanks.
(Side-side note: Some of you may be wondering why I had to download Alienware Respawn instead of having it already on my machine. That's because it was reformatted a long time ago to barebones Windows 7 (WITHOUT TOUCHING THE RECOVERY PARTITION). In my effort to troubleshoot, I am nearly 100% sure that this process somehow removed the Alienware Respawn from the System Recovery Menu. Sounds reasonable, but my assumption was that installing Alienware Respawn would restore it.)
tl;dr I am looking for a way to restore the Alienware Respawn option in the System Recovery Options menu with a recovery partition that is still fully functional and intact.