I have an Alienware M14x R2 laptop & bought Windows 8 from Windows 7 a few months ago.
Slowly and surely just about all of my software/hardware has become less functional to the point where nothing
works or installs. My intel wireless drivers are corrupted and when I try to install an updated driver it says theres
an error with the windows installer package. Anything and everything fails upon install. I have dedicated (Nvidia)
and discrete (Intel) graphics cards. The Nvidia just stopped being recognized and errors come up saying I need to
install the Intel graphics driver first.
Now my Intel graphics driver wont update/install either due to error. There are serious problems with
the integrity of my Windows 8 OS.
I tried a system refresh from the W8 settings. It says the drive where W8 is installed is locked and to unlock it to
continue. I searched everywhere online to solve these issues but found no solutions.
Please help. I can't really uninstall the OS because
1) I don't have a external hard drive to back up all my data
2) I don't have a physical copy of my purchased online Windows 8 .iso or a Windows 7 .iso
*Note I have a Windows 7 product key on the bottom of my laptop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Slowly and surely just about all of my software/hardware has become less functional to the point where nothing
works or installs. My intel wireless drivers are corrupted and when I try to install an updated driver it says theres
an error with the windows installer package. Anything and everything fails upon install. I have dedicated (Nvidia)
and discrete (Intel) graphics cards. The Nvidia just stopped being recognized and errors come up saying I need to
install the Intel graphics driver first.
Now my Intel graphics driver wont update/install either due to error. There are serious problems with
the integrity of my Windows 8 OS.
I tried a system refresh from the W8 settings. It says the drive where W8 is installed is locked and to unlock it to
continue. I searched everywhere online to solve these issues but found no solutions.
Please help. I can't really uninstall the OS because
1) I don't have a external hard drive to back up all my data
2) I don't have a physical copy of my purchased online Windows 8 .iso or a Windows 7 .iso
*Note I have a Windows 7 product key on the bottom of my laptop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro