I have never used it.įor normal on-going backups, I suggest you use a third-party tool. I can't help with Alien Respawn (Premium or otherwise). Not sure why, but it could be the the quality of the optical discs you are using or read/write errors in the optical drive, or Respawn just being overly persnickety. Using optical media for recovery discs often fails.
You cannot use your SSD because Respawn recovery media is intended to an external removable drive, not an internal drive. If you add files to that drive (or the USB flash drive) later on it could corrupt your recovery file. Using your WD Passport HDD will require that it be formatted regardless of the space available. The best option is to grab an inexpensive USB 2.0 16GB flash drive, create the recovery media and then put it aside and use it for nothing else. I have already tried to back up using disk and it failed on the 3rd disk and wants to start all over again. Two questions why isn't my SSD drive listed as an option?Īlso when I try to use one of my backup drives My book or My passport drives with plenty of space on both I get a message saying that Alienware is going to re-format my drives and I will lose all data? Why does it want to re-format my drive? Have been trying to make re-installation disk.
