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    (PROBLEM) Asus Recovery Disk!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tabu, Aug 16, 2007.

  1. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    Hi all, first of all, sorry for my bad english!

    I'm trying to install a fresh copy of windows xp with the recovery cd thats comes with my laptop...

    I take some screen shots to be easy to understand the problem!
    thanks for trying to help me! :)

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    and then, my laptop reboot!

    one note: Im using 2 partitions, and i select the second option in the menu, to install the recovery only on the fist partition!
     
    tabu, Aug 16, 2007
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  2. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    can someone help me?
     
    tabu, Aug 16, 2007
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  3. Voodoofreak

    Voodoofreak Notebook Deity

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    Whats the model of the laptop?
     
    Voodoofreak, Aug 16, 2007
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  4. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    Asus A8Js.. i have in the first partition, 40 gb free
     
    tabu, Aug 17, 2007
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  5. Insane

    Insane Notebook Evangelist

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    is it not picking up the first partition as the 1.6GB or so recovery partition. Maybe put the HDD into another PC, hide the recovery partition and start again.
     
    Insane, Aug 17, 2007
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  6. MilestonePC.com

    MilestonePC.com Company Representative

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    Have you tried following EBE's guide using the Recovery Disc?
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81828

    It looks like you got windows installed but the drivers are giving you problem?
    Maybe you will want to start again, by just following the guide above and hopefully things will work out better.
     
    MilestonePC.com, Aug 17, 2007
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  7. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    thanks for the help friends!

    Hey dear Milestone, the windows dont install, the 3 image apear 2 seconds after the 2 image... :(

    i dono whats happening! I've read the tutorial you gave to me, but nothing resolved.. can i clean the first sectors of my hd? or fix the problem, idono...

    in this system, i have installed in the past, linux, vista, windows 2000, etc... so i think that maybe the hd is with wrong configurations
     
    tabu, Aug 17, 2007
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  8. raikay

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    Only thing you are missing now is XP and your next install should be OSX 10 :)
     
    raikay, Aug 18, 2007
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  9. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    lol friend, if I tell you that I use windows XP, and I have installed Mac OS 10.4.8! Lol, but Mac os didnt recognize the 512mb of my vga, so the display was a terror! ;)


    Backing to the topic, I'm thinking to do a Zero Fill in my HD, is this will resolve my problems with boot sectors?
    thanks
     
    tabu, Aug 19, 2007
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  10. tabu

    tabu Notebook Guru

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    someone help?
     
    tabu, Aug 20, 2007
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  11. wuzertheloser

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    well, you can try reformatting your hard drive if nothing else works, though you would lose the recovery partitions. but in this case, you can't access them anyway...so what's the point of keeping them right? :p
     
    wuzertheloser, Aug 20, 2007
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  12. glitchbit

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    Hirens Boot CD..
     
    glitchbit, Aug 20, 2007
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  13. E.B.E.

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    Try reformatting the HDD as suggested above.

    You can also try a FDISK /MBR from a DOS bootable CD.
     
    E.B.E., Aug 21, 2007
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  14. tovan

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    Search google for "Ultimate Boot CD" it has numerous option for disk repair, checking, partitioning and formatting from different manufacturers and uses a "Free-dos" to get around the old MS Dos copyrights. This will at least get your hard drive back in order, then boot into your recovery cd to install fresh. Hopefully you have your crit data backed up.
     
    tovan, Aug 21, 2007
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  15. AlexF

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    Get another HDD and do the restore to that HDD, then get a USB laptop HDD enclosure to copy the files over.

    I think they use an older version of the PQIMAGE and it didn't like how your setup was. It might've corrupted the partition table.
     
    AlexF, Aug 21, 2007
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