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    ASUS G55VW - F9 recovery not working.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by fluffydelusions, Nov 11, 2012.

  1. fluffydelusions

    fluffydelusions Notebook Geek

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    So I just purchased a g55 last week and upgraded to Windows 8 immediately upon receiving it. I never bothered to even make a backup disc as this is now my 3rd ROG laptop and I've always just used F9 to format if I needed to. Now everything is fine with Windows and such however I noticed the F9 recovery option seems missing. Hitting F9 at boot does nothing. I looked at disk management in Windows and it showed an EFI partition of 20mb and recovery partition of 24gb both of which had 100% free space. Does anyone know what may have happened? I upgraded to Windows 8 on my g74sx and f9 still worked fine afterwards.
     
    fluffydelusions, Nov 11, 2012
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  2. smellon

    smellon Notebook Evangelist

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    You probably just have to download and reinstall the application from the Asus Support webpage.
     
    smellon, Nov 14, 2012
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  3. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    You sometimes have to turn it on in the BIOS and is it not ALT and F9?
     
    Yiddo, Nov 14, 2012
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    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    As long as you still have the recovery partition data, you should be able to make the DVD set using ai recovery. Your win8 install may have overwritten the original MBR that traps F9 to enter recovery.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Nov 15, 2012
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