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Hi,
I use my laptop every day, to do school work, so I was appalled to see that it would not start up this morning. I use Windows 7, and I have a single hard drive that I had just partitioned last night, to separate my general files from my Steam games. All went well, but now I can't seem to start it up. I have made some researches, but I don't know if I have in my possession the disk I need to boot from: I have three CD's: Alienware Drivers and Utilities, Alienware M15X Resource DVD, and an Alienware Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. On that CD, it says "The Software included on this Recovery DVD-ROM was preinstalled on your hard drive at the factory and may only be used for backup and recovery of your Alienware computer system". I'm guessing this is the CD I'm supposed to boot from to repair Windows, but I've tried inserting it, pressing F2 while the computer loads to open the BIOS menu and booting from the CD. However, it does not seem to change anything in the BIOS screen.
Can you help me? Do you need more information?
Thank you,
Nazsha
UPDATE: I can now boot from my Windows CD, I just had to change the order of the devices in the BIOS menu. But now, it doesn't give me the option do repair Windows, just to reinstall it!
I use my laptop every day, to do school work, so I was appalled to see that it would not start up this morning. I use Windows 7, and I have a single hard drive that I had just partitioned last night, to separate my general files from my Steam games. All went well, but now I can't seem to start it up. I have made some researches, but I don't know if I have in my possession the disk I need to boot from: I have three CD's: Alienware Drivers and Utilities, Alienware M15X Resource DVD, and an Alienware Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. On that CD, it says "The Software included on this Recovery DVD-ROM was preinstalled on your hard drive at the factory and may only be used for backup and recovery of your Alienware computer system". I'm guessing this is the CD I'm supposed to boot from to repair Windows, but I've tried inserting it, pressing F2 while the computer loads to open the BIOS menu and booting from the CD. However, it does not seem to change anything in the BIOS screen.
Can you help me? Do you need more information?
Thank you,
Nazsha
UPDATE: I can now boot from my Windows CD, I just had to change the order of the devices in the BIOS menu. But now, it doesn't give me the option do repair Windows, just to reinstall it!