Asus G1 boot from recovery disk

I have a Asus G1 notebook. I decided to do a boot disk recovery to restore my system to its original form. When I tried to start my computer with the boot disk it would not come up, so i restarted my computer and went into the BIOS and tried to start from there. Once again nothing happened. I even made a copy of the Recovery Disk in case something was wrong with it. Once again, that did not work. Now when I try to start my computer back up it starts up and says "windows is loading files", once it is done doing that a blue screen comes up and nothing happens.

Anyone have any idea how to get my computer to load from the boot disk?

 

1. Try using the recovery partition, if you didn't erase it. Reboot, press F9 at the ASUS splash screen. If recovery starts, you're fine. It will be done in less than half an hour.

2. Insert recovery CD/DVD, reboot computer, press ESC once at the ASUS boot screen. At the ensuing prompt, select the CD/DVD drive, and press Enter. The recovery disk should now boot. If it doesn't, something's wrong either with the drive or the disk.

In any case try the recovery partition option first, it's much faster.

And make sure you back up all your data!

 

I tried by pressing F9, nothing happened.

I tryed booting by pressing ESC. I get to a menu that says

please select boot device:
HDD M-ST9160821AS
CD/DVD:SM-HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4

I clicked on both of these and neither worked.

Everything I click on goes to the Windows is loading files and then to the blue screen and stays there.

 

You could try this,(although sounds like you have a bad cd or hd), go into the bios and change the boot order(usually with f5 and f6 keys move the highlighted drive up or down on the list) and make the cd drive boot first, save and exit with your disk in and it should boot from the cd.

 

If it doesn't boot from CD when you select the second option in the boot menu, it means that your optical drive is bad; or that the recovery disk is bad.

Are you using the original recovery disk(s) that came with the computer? If so, then they are almost certainly bootable and your optical drive is at fault.

Try getting hold of an external optical drive and install from that one.

 

i was on the phone with tech support and he walked me through a way to boot without the recovery disk and it still was not working. Which means that its not a problem with my recovery disk or CD drive. I'm guessing then that it has something to do with my Hard Drive, does that sound right?

 

Possible.

You can do a HDD check using the manufacturer's tool, found on the manufacturer's (of the HDD) website .

 

I don't really know what that is or where to find it.

I have a Asus G1 notebook, any idea where I would go, or do you know the link to get to that page?

 

I assume from the PM-ST9160821AS identifier string of the HDD that it is a Seagate.

Therefore, you should use SeaTools:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

I recommend the ISO image (SeaTools for DOS), write it to a CD ( as an image not a data CD) and boot the computer with it. Maybe first try the notebook. If the computer does boot the SeaTools CD, then it's clearly the recovery disk's fault.

If not, then put the HDD into the desktop, and boot the SeaTools CD in the desktop. Select the correct HDD from the SeaTools menu.

In either case, run the Short Test first. If that checks out OK, I suspect it's not a hardware fault with the HDD.

But BEFORE ALL THAT.

Try formatting the master boot record of the HDD. Here is how to do that.

Download the base FreeDOS ISO, burn it on a CD. Boot the CD.

X:> CD FREEDOS
X:\FREEDOS> FDISK

If you don't need data on the computer: Delete all partitions (interface is self-explanatory).

Close FDISK.
X:\FREEDOS> FDISK /MBR

CTRL ALT DEL to Reboot. Your HDD should be wiped clean (except partition table was not erased & rebuilt; for that you would need qtParted).

 

Ok I downloaded and ran the Seatools fir DOS and it worked, told me that I passed so I assume there is nothing wrong with my CD/DVD drive. So would that mean their is something wrong with my HD, and if so is there a way I can check if their is a problem with my HD?