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    Asus N550JV SSD Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Koolg223, Nov 19, 2013.

  1. Koolg223

    Koolg223 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, this is really annoying me. I've seen some threads around with people with similar issues, but I could never find a solution. I followed all of Microsoft's steps to make a USB recovery drive of Windows 8.1 (copied the recovery partition of the harddrive to a flash drive as I understand it). I installed the blank SSD, put in the flash drive, and, as soon as I went to restore I got the "missing partition error." Does anyone know a way to fix this? Thanks.

    Edit: Well it's an OEM issue, but I still don't know how to do this.
     
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  2. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    How are you trying to boot? Are you telling the computer to boot from the recovery partition using F9? If so its not working because its looking for the recovery partition on the hard drive that you have replaced with the SSD. If you made the USB correctly you should be booting from the USB device. It normally will go there if it cant find it on devices listed in the BIOS. You can also tell the BIOS to look to a USB port as the primary boot drive.
     
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  3. Koolg223

    Koolg223 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, so I figured this out, though my solution isn't likely to help anyone. The method I used to copy Asus's restore partition only works for OEM copies of Windows (I really should have looked that up before). Anyway, thanks to my school I was able to get Windows 8 Pro Upgrade for free, and I used that to make a bootable flash drive (with a little hack to override the old windows key stored in my bios), disabled secureboot, and installed that way. It was a giant pain in the , but now that's working. If you're anyone else tries this, I believe you need to get a restore tool from Asus to properly create the bootable drive with all of Asus's stuff, so that's unfortunate (though I'm happy to be rid of the bloatware). Thanks for trying to help though, Hutsady.
     
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    Yes, always best off using the bundled recovery burner unless you want to fresh install.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 20, 2013
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    Asus has stated that the best approach to this is to use the Windows Recovery tool to create an image of the entire drive; essentially clone the whole thing, since their former AI Recovery software does not work under Windows 8. <- A little late to throw out there now, but I'm glad you've got the system working for you at least. :)
     
    Prostar Computer, Nov 21, 2013
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