The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    AI recovery Restore error 3

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Cereal_Man, Aug 3, 2012.

  1. Cereal_Man

    Cereal_Man Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    So I was planning on doing a restore earlier, so I thought why not today. I get the CDs out and I begin the process. Everything was going fine until I got to cd 2. At the end of cd 2 I got error 3. So I thought ok I'll try again. And I get error 3 again. I really have no idea on what to do since this is my only gaming laptop.
    Please help me.
     
    Cereal_Man, Aug 3, 2012
    #1
  2. JehutyZeroshift

    JehutyZeroshift Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    51
    Messages:
    393
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Maybe cd 2 wasn't properly burned by the AI Recovery software? Or your cd 2 is busted in terms of dye quality?
     
    JehutyZeroshift, Aug 3, 2012
    #2
  3. Cereal_Man

    Cereal_Man Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have done restore with these CDs before. And I never got an error. But if that is the case is there somewhere I can get the files to burn on CDs?
     
    Cereal_Man, Aug 3, 2012
    #3
  4. JehutyZeroshift

    JehutyZeroshift Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    51
    Messages:
    393
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    If you have a backup copy of the recovery dvds via iso file, you could burn it easily using another computer with a dvd burner. Is your hard drive still the same when you have burned those recovery dvds?
     
    JehutyZeroshift, Aug 3, 2012
    #4
  5. Cereal_Man

    Cereal_Man Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I only have the 4 CDs. I don't have anything else. After I get error 3 it tells me to select where to boot from and press a key

    Edit. Ok so I got error 3 again. So I shut off the computer and used f9 and it took me to some recovery system. And I'm restoring the harddrive. Hopefully this works.

    Edit2: worked.
     
    Cereal_Man, Aug 3, 2012
    #5