dnbluprints
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Hello alien owners!
I'm a new alien owner myself as of a day ago of a new X51 with which I immediately unwrapped and popped a GTX 660 TI and a kingston Hyper-x 256m SSD. Everything seemed great until I tried to restore the OS (Win 8 home) onto my SSD so I could keep all of the alienware wallpaper goodies ect.
My first issue was upon using a DVD created alienware "respawn?" disc I received an error of 0x400112.... Then I switched the bios to Legacy boot mode and the respawn goes through the song and dance but when I reboot it tells me the boot disc has no info. So was I supposed to do some funky partition on the SSD before restoring?
OK... so now I've read doing a "respawn" on the SSD isn't such a good idea and there are ways to keep the cool alienware stuff on a clean install so the OS configures the SSD properly. I currently have a big fancy brick of a system so doing a clean install sounds like something I'm more familiar with. I reset the bios as I'm not familiar with UEFI bios except what I've seen on the web. My DVD of Win 8 won't load. So I go to legacy and the disc does load but right before I have to input my product key I get a window telling me my product key for the supplied os is invalid. I see they are putting the product key on the bios in these little machines.
SOOOOO.. my question is, to get a SSD working on my new box, the most stable and effective way, what should I be doing? I can access the 2 TB hard drive with OS still if I need to. I want to purchase the win 8 home to pro upgrade but will I retain the same serial number thats embedded in the bios so I can do the fresh install? Where do I get the alienware specific wallpaper, start screen etc for my X51 and is there some guide to install it?
Thanks for your help.
I'm a new alien owner myself as of a day ago of a new X51 with which I immediately unwrapped and popped a GTX 660 TI and a kingston Hyper-x 256m SSD. Everything seemed great until I tried to restore the OS (Win 8 home) onto my SSD so I could keep all of the alienware wallpaper goodies ect.
My first issue was upon using a DVD created alienware "respawn?" disc I received an error of 0x400112.... Then I switched the bios to Legacy boot mode and the respawn goes through the song and dance but when I reboot it tells me the boot disc has no info. So was I supposed to do some funky partition on the SSD before restoring?
OK... so now I've read doing a "respawn" on the SSD isn't such a good idea and there are ways to keep the cool alienware stuff on a clean install so the OS configures the SSD properly. I currently have a big fancy brick of a system so doing a clean install sounds like something I'm more familiar with. I reset the bios as I'm not familiar with UEFI bios except what I've seen on the web. My DVD of Win 8 won't load. So I go to legacy and the disc does load but right before I have to input my product key I get a window telling me my product key for the supplied os is invalid. I see they are putting the product key on the bios in these little machines.
SOOOOO.. my question is, to get a SSD working on my new box, the most stable and effective way, what should I be doing? I can access the 2 TB hard drive with OS still if I need to. I want to purchase the win 8 home to pro upgrade but will I retain the same serial number thats embedded in the bios so I can do the fresh install? Where do I get the alienware specific wallpaper, start screen etc for my X51 and is there some guide to install it?
Thanks for your help.