Just bought a alienware alpha. Tried to use there software to make a recovery usb flash drive, it finished but at the end it gave me an error! Using the most recent version of AlienRespawn it, it's there software.

Decided to forget it and install and played a few games from steam. Now I'm wanting to give it another shot at making the recovery disc, but is it too late? Did I interfere on how good the recovery disc will be?

Also is the recovery disc the disc I'd use to reinstall the OS if I decided to replace the small 500gb hard drive?

@agentboolen: Hmm, I would be wary of using the software that comes with a computer to make a recovery disc, unless there's something really critical built into the OS. I'd go with the recovery disc/flash drive options of the OS itself - presumably Windows 10? If there's anything that's missing from the recovery drive you should be able to find that software on Alienware's site, I would imagine, although it's been a while since I've investigated what they're offering. Did it come preloaded with games or anything?

@rorie: it comes with a custom user interface that runs off kodi, called hivemind. It also has steam and origin already with it.

With the custom interface I'm afraid using just Windows backup program would keep it from being installed in the future the way the machine is meant to be with the ui.

I've never really used a recovery disc so I'm not exactly sure what to expect and if I harmed the creation process with installing software.

Just download the system image and driver discs directly from Dell if you're worried about it.

https://restore.solutions/en/dellalienwarealpha/

@mike: they want $20 for that disc! They use to give those disc with computers for free. I ended up just hooking up a dvd burner to the Alpha and just burnt the recovery disc. I still really don't know if using the computer alters the recovery data. Or is that data on another partition?

@agentboolen: No they don't, they're free downloads.

@pcorb: my mistake your correct, I was looking at the os download section.