1215b EFI Partition image needed - help please

Hi guys,

I bought a second hand 1215b that had been completely wiped removing the recovery partition and the EFI partition.

I've got my OS installed and running nicely but any attempt to recreate the EFI partition and restore EFI functions (Boot Booster and Express Gate) have failed.

Usually (on 1201Ns and 901s etc) to recreate the EFI partition you can just use GParted and set up a small 20mb EFI partition at the head of the drive and hey presto, EFI functions resume.

With the 1215b this doesn't seem to work which leads me to believe that ASUS have some sort of propriety files in the 1215b EFI partition.

So here is what I would like from a fellow 1215b owner.

An image of your EFI partition. It can be Norton Ghost or DD and should only be about 50mb.

If you can help but you're not sure how to make the image please reply and I can guide you through the process (dead simple).

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On a side note - Asus are no help what-so-ever and just ask you to send the whole laptop in for service at your expense. Why they can't just provide a 50mb image is beyond me!

Anyhow - hope someone can help me out!

EDIT

making a ghost image instructions;

download ghost32.zip ====> https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3B...lByR0xqUURSSTQ

unzip and run ghost32.exe as admin

Local > Partition > To image

Select your main hdd and ok

Select the EFI partition (Its about 50mb and type will be EF) and ok

Browse to a folder to save the image (single clicks to open folders not double)

Type a file name and press save.

Choose fast compression and ok.

Process will take a minute or so.

Upload your newly created .gho file somewhere and send me the link whilst enjoying a karma boost.

 

Maybe silly, but why not do an nice clean install.
You can download all drivers from the Asus site itself, and you can even download the Windows 7 installation DVD. Also enough people around with a Win7 DVD.

The big plus-point of this approach is: way faster and responsive laptop due to absence of all pre-installed 'crap'-ware.

[Ooops... a small update... I see you already did clean install]
As for EFI setup:
The best route is to make an EFI-bootable USB-stick with Windows installer (this because I've seen quite some opticals not capable booting on EFI, which is a BIOS issue). Plenty of how-to's floating around on the web.
You probably then also need to make a BIOS-change in order to enable EFI boot (it probably now doing Legacy boot).
Anyway: you won't gain any performance improvements with this change. So if everything works fine now, I would stick to it.

 

Nope you're misunderstanding my issue. I have restored EFI partitions on a number of different Asus laptops and all you do is create a small partition at the head of the disk and then fire up linux and us cfdisk to set its type to EF.

Soon as this is done EFI functions work (boot booster / express gate etc)

On the 1215b this does not work. After creating an EFI partition EFI functions are still not working. Which leads me to the suspicion that ASUS have a proprietary file system going on for the 1215b.

Without a functioning EFI partition I cannot use boot booster (speeds up booting by a few secs) and more importantly I cannot use my Expressgate button.

The 1215b has a dedicated button to turn on and load Express gate instead of windows. This can in turn be hacked to load any OS. The end result being 2 power buttons one that turns on Windows and one that turns on Linux.

Anyhow, if you have a 1215b I'd appreciate that EFI image.

Tnx.

 

I have the same identical issue...no one can help us?