Trouble With Recovery Disk

Hello all. I have been having trouble using the recovery disk for my asus g72gx, FXX05.

I select the option to boot from disk in the bios, and it loads the disk at startup. The screen that then comes up is gray, and the language preferences and the option of whether to write over the whole hard drive or one of the partitions is presented.

I originally tried the whole hard drive, as I don't need any of the data on it. But no matter which option I pick, at some percentage of the loading operation, where it says XX% complete, the process will stop and the screen will turn white and display ERROR in giant red letters.

I have googled around to try and find some solution, with no luck. Does anybody have any suggestions? All help is appreciated!

 

The giant red ERROR message only happens when your actual recovery image is corrupted or missing. It could conceivably happen if you have a hard drive with tons of bad sectors, but I've never seen that actually happen.

You can reinstall with a recovery disc, or download a legal version of the same edition of windows that you have preinstalled, and use the key on the bottom of your laptop. The drivers can be found at ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support-

If you're already installing off of the actual recovery disc, and not a recovery partition on the hard drive, make sure it's clean and not visibly damaged.

Good luck.

 

Thanks for the response. Where would I go to get the free, legal version?

 

If it's vista it looks like the links on the thread I was thinking of are dead now but you should be able to find them somewhere else. http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/240320-working-legal-vista-download-links-nice-try-but-you-still-need-key.html

For windows 7: http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/428068-legal-windows-7-download-links-just-like-vista-before.html