Alternatively, Open Computer go to your OS drive, Double Click the Users file, and copy your user name's file(and anyone else's user file) to your back up media. Go to the Windows Orb/Star button, click your user name and copy paste all the items to your back up drive or location. Most of your data is easily copied by just copying and pasting your user folder from your OS drive. Back up your data to a drive that is NOT being used for your operating system and factory restore.ĭELL/ALIENWARE'S FACTORY RESTORE WILL FORMAT AND ERASE ALL DATA ON THE OS DRIVE! It will pull up a windows powered restore OS, and at the bottom there should be an Alienware Respawn, or a System Image Recovery option.Īny new from the factory Alienware will have a Factory Restore/Alien Respawn on it, which in that case you need to back up all your data and files to a drive NOT ON THE LAPTOP/Desktop or if you have an M17X/M18X/Aurora/Area 51 WITH multiple hard drives. Find the "Repair my computer" option and press enter. The system will start up with a black screen and white text. Restart the system and press F8 at the boot screen(Alienware head screen as soon as you power on the system). This guide is raw and unrefined, I'll edit and correct and update this guide when possible-įirst off you need to check if your system has a Factory Restore/Alien Respawn option.
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