Yeah, Malaysia only has G750JX, kind of sad.

I wonder if they will get G750JZ with 880m in later.

Thanks for your information ....

Hello, is there any way to create a recovery partition in a fresh OS, as per the partition(s) in the hard disk that came with the laptop? I didn't create anything with AlienRespawn but the old (failing) hard disk is still with me.
Thanks!

if you wanna have the stock system on your new disk, it's better to ask dell tech to help. if you're finding out the way to have a fresh OS and then create a recovery partition based on that fresh OS, i think the tutorials on how to do that can be found via google.

Well, if u wanna retain the state of ur HDD, u can always clone it to a new one.

Hi all Alienware gurus,

I bit my tongue and placed order for an Alienware 17 which comes with "750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s+64GB mSATA SSD Caching".

I know this might not be a best decision at this time knowing that GTX800M series launch is close and Alienware laptops might have refresh few months later, but I found a relatively good deal and due to personal reasons it's best for me to setup a new laptop now.

I want to move Window OS from the stock HDD to a new SSD which I will purchase later on.

I plan to do so by following the steps below once receive the unit:

1. Create a recovery drive on a USB thumb drive (16GB) and keep it safe;

2. Install the new 240GB SSD in the secondary drive bay of AW17;

3. Use Macrium Reflect to clone the OS from the stock 750GB HDD into the new 240GB SSD;

4. Remove the stock HDD from primary drive bay (boot drive) and install the SSD into it. Leave the HDD outside the laptop;

5. Once everything is fine, install the stock HDD into secondary bay, and format it empty to have it as storage drive.

Pls let me know if I have overlooked any minor detail in the above steps.

This post has been edited by TYK: Feb 16 2014, 01:00 AM

good decision

as for the migration to the new ssd, i guess the steps will work. it's also better to set up the bios (sata operations) to ahci.

Thanks and noted.

got kicked out of bf4 again :/ .. and it waited until i planted c4 on the tank and was about to trigger them ://

seems like after closed beta, BF4 is much more buggy than beta release.

most of the times it's fine. (only weird bugs here and there) and there are times when the scene has a lot of explosions around you, the gpu power is not enough apparently. (rare cases; it happened only a few times)

the only problem is the latency. many times mati buta one :/

the new dlc second assault is coming on 18 feb. (like in one or two days) hopefully with it things could be better. (hope only)

Anyone here tried Titanfall already on their Alienwares?

this might cause some issue due to the caching, u will lost ur boot mgr, and system resevre partition.

i wonder why u wanna keep the stock recovery? haha.... i makes no different from the fresh install, as u will get the stock DVD for the OS.

LOL because I am not sure the package will come with Windows Recovery DVD.

I heard some Windows 8 notebooks nowadays doesn't come with recovery disk.

THIS IS ALIENWARE

unless he clone them all hehe (and he should). fresh install is the BEST!

aw comes with recovery dvd. for others i think you need to create recovery dvd's / usb on first boot.

get trolled by Asus Fans.....


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lol! this asus fan is weird. i don't recall there was a g54vw. maybe he meant g55vw :/

edit: no need to google also. goto nvidia.com and you can see the comparison chart:



This post has been edited by horns: Feb 19 2014, 05:01 PM

that guy dont even know whats the difference between GTX690 and GTX780, yet he still wants to bullsh*t around.

Aiyo, whether GTX690 better or the other way around he also don't have enough budget to buy from you la bro haha
Save effort XD

How's my laptop parts? Any updates? Or still in Thailand cari ah gua moi?