Asus K70ID format

Hi all...
My asus is being slow so i wanna format it..
I looked at this guide How to Reformat an Asus Laptop | eHow.com and i just want to know a thing...
I burnt a recovery disk with AI recovery burner.
Is that the windowns 7 install disk because i dont got one else.

 

Yes that is a recovery disk set that will get you back to the factory state from when you first got the computer. It is not the same as a windows 7 disc (for a clean install), you can get one of those from here and use the license code on the label on bottom of your computer: http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-7-download-links-just-like-vista-before.html

If you do a clean install you will need to get all the drivers installed by hand, starting with atk and the platform drivers. You can find them here: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download

Make sure to back up your personal files onto another drive or DVD or something, because you will lose all the data on the computer if you reformat or use the recovery discs.

 

Hey again...
What is the difference about using the recovery disk and doing the "Clean install"?

 

There are a lot of subtle differences but the major one is that there is no bloatware with a clean install, and with the clean install you have to install everything by hand past the generic windows drivers.

With a recovery, you can remove the bloatware after the fact using this guide: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/380681-asus-utility-bloatware-guide.html

 

Thanks for quick reply..
I'm completely new at this so i dont understand half of what you say...
Can you say it more detailed?

 

All the stuff in the bloatware guide is essentially applications that can be considered annoying garbage that slows down your computer.

Using the recovery discs you get back to a factory state, which will be faster than it is now probably, but will still have stuff you have to remove to get it to an 'optimal' state.

On the other side of the coin there is installing windows itself and then adding all the drivers and any applications you want one at a time.

It's subtractive versus additive approach - and religious wars have been waged as to the best way to go about it. It's your choice. The recovery CDs are the least annoying and error-prone way for a new user. You can also press F9 at startup to get to the recovery utility directly from the hidden partition on the hard drive, instead of using DVDs (which will be slower).

 

Hey again..
Followed this guide to make a windows 7 disc.. Legal Windows 7 Download Guide - codesagar.com
I burned the iso with Poweriso i put the disc in restart my computer and nothing happens
Please help thanks

 

When you turn the computer on press the ESC key and select your dvd drive. Then press any key when it tells you to.

 

Thanks again =D

 

Hey ALLurGroceries =D
I formatted my Asus K70ID yhayyyyy
But..
The things is like before then i had battery saving on
Let me show you..
Uploaded some picktures on mediafirehttp://www.mediafire.com/?v2a3j0f2ortza2o
The taskbar is more bright than before and the window then i hold my mouse over its just a text and not a pickture.
Plus the minimize buttons and other there are smaller... Minimize button + window thing.png
+ the window thing on top i bright

Taskbar + window.png

first link broken Taskbar + window.png

 

Did you install your nvidia drivers? You can get them either from nvidia.com or asus support.

It looks like maybe you don't have aero on or something.

 

i used my driver cd i got then i buyed the asus.
Look here... Driver cd.png
The gray is because i installed it =D

 

OK, maybe you just need to enable Aero in your display properties under themes.

How to Turn on Aero in Windows Vista - wikiHow

Aero is the feature that gives you window previews when you hover over the taskbar.

Windows Aero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

This happened to me once when i reformatted my N50 with vista that came with it, didn't encounter the problem with any other reformats though. turning aero on fixed it, WEI gave me a poor score too like it didn't detect my GPU until i did a score refresh.

 

Hey fixed it =D

Ahh now i got another problem...
My keyboard is danish but because i picked english it thinks its english

 

Easily fixed in windows control panel -> language options.

 

Fixed it... i got back to danish keyboard by ALT + Shift

 

No problems now i need to close thread =D

 

We're not really in the habit of closing threads here, they close automatically after no posts have been made for a year.

 

Ah okay