Hi There,
My new laptop is a Dell Inspiron 17r SE, with windows 8 installed.
It came with a 1TB 5400rpm drive, but with second bay, and I installed a 256gb samsung 840 pro ssd then successfully cloned the OS onto that, which now runs fine (ish) as the main drive, with the old one as a storage drive.
When I say the new HD is fine-ish, sometimes random Dell programs will interrupt whatever I'm doing and occasionally if I'm using a program (say a game) it will "crash" to desktop - although I say "crash" the program doesn't fail, it just returns to the desktop with whatever program I was using being minimised, which is both weird and annoying.
Due to that I wanted to reinstall/refresh my win 8 install, but then my troubles start. I created a bootable recovery usb, which the win 8 recovery program doesn't seem to want to reinstall from... it'll restart, boot from the usb, I select the language/keyboard setting and it just goes back to the options screen rather than proceeding to reinstall windows 8.
Likewise, recovering from the recovery partition fails, as does the "reinstall windows" option in the pc settings bit of windows 8.
As Dell didn't include install discs (as the win 8 key is embedded into the bios etc), I have no way of reinstalling windows 8 now as none of the recovery features are working for me, so am stuck with a glitchy windows 8 instead.
I was really hoping someone on here might know a bit more about what I could do to solve this? Thanks in advance for your help
My new laptop is a Dell Inspiron 17r SE, with windows 8 installed.
It came with a 1TB 5400rpm drive, but with second bay, and I installed a 256gb samsung 840 pro ssd then successfully cloned the OS onto that, which now runs fine (ish) as the main drive, with the old one as a storage drive.
When I say the new HD is fine-ish, sometimes random Dell programs will interrupt whatever I'm doing and occasionally if I'm using a program (say a game) it will "crash" to desktop - although I say "crash" the program doesn't fail, it just returns to the desktop with whatever program I was using being minimised, which is both weird and annoying.
Due to that I wanted to reinstall/refresh my win 8 install, but then my troubles start. I created a bootable recovery usb, which the win 8 recovery program doesn't seem to want to reinstall from... it'll restart, boot from the usb, I select the language/keyboard setting and it just goes back to the options screen rather than proceeding to reinstall windows 8.
Likewise, recovering from the recovery partition fails, as does the "reinstall windows" option in the pc settings bit of windows 8.
As Dell didn't include install discs (as the win 8 key is embedded into the bios etc), I have no way of reinstalling windows 8 now as none of the recovery features are working for me, so am stuck with a glitchy windows 8 instead.
I was really hoping someone on here might know a bit more about what I could do to solve this? Thanks in advance for your help
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8