ASUS G73SW Recovery Process - Looping

Need a little help here, please.

I'm trying to bring the system back to factory defaults by using the F9 procedure. Everything seems to go as expected, i.e. a lot of reboots and welcome screens and such, but then it keeps on rebooting, telling me how welcome I am and all.

I appreciate how welcomed I am to my newly factory reformated disk/PC, but I left it on all night, and woke up to it rebooting and welcoming me.

Even tried Task Manager (tried killing processes), Safe Mode (says it can't run Safe Mode), and Last Known Good.

Anyone have any ideas on how to end this endless/infinite loop, or have experiences with this? I should have done an Acronis install like a friend suggested, but didn't have the extra space at the time.

What I'm saying is (unless someone has experience in this area, and knows what to do), all that effort to create those AI disks may have been for naught.

 

Just wanted to update everyone on this.

After a half hour (or more) of rebooting, and not seeing any progress (at all), I took out a Wireless USB adapter I had plugged in, and, just for grins, removed 8GB of the 16GB of installed RAM. I had already removed the secondary HD that was plugged into it, just in case it wanted to partition/format that too, but also because it seemed like it was interfering with the recovery process.

It's not quite done yet (still!), but at least it looks like it's making progress now, and not just repeatedly rebooting for no reason.

If you have any doubts when recovering your system, make sure you remove all accessories and/or any mods/upgrades you may have made to the PC before trying to recover it.

Expect it to reboot numerous times (what seems like an extraordinarily excessive amount of reboots), and, after about a half hour of it doing this, expect to see more and more icons and bloatware being installed on the desktop. The overall process, although still not done yet, will probably take in excess of two hours, especially if done from the DVDs, and not the recovery partition. Be forewarned, doing it from the recovery partition will probably still take at least two hours from start to finish.

Why do a factory restore instead of a clean install (that Chastity and ALLurGroceries so graciously dedicated copious amounts of time and resources towards)? Well, because, that's why. You may have your own reasons; I want both worlds.