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Help! Restore Does't Exist!

Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by derekmblue4011, Jul 13, 2013.

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Hey so I've got a serious problem. I managed to really screw up my laptop (Viruses from downloading) and went to do the [F9] restore since I didn't really have anything I didn't want to lose and the restore option doesn't show up. I called into Asus tech support and they said that the only thing that could be is my restore partition is gone. Also in the BIOS the Boot Booster doesn't show up. I made a restore disk when I got it but that was 3 years ago and I have since lost it. Anyone know how I could restore it to factory?

edit: Forgot to mention which model it is lol. G73JH

derekmblue4011, Jul 13, 2013

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tijo Sacred Blame

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Since the laptop came with Windows 7, you can do a clean install. Here you go: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...lk-through-doing-clean-windows-7-install.html. I strongly suggest you use another computer to download the Windows 7 .iso and to make the bootable installer to avoid transferring anything bad to the new install.

It won't exactly be a factory restore, but it'll be close enough.

tijo, Jul 14, 2013

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I would also avoid contamination when formatting the drive too.

Meaker@Sager, Jul 17, 2013

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