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    Asus U30sd: restoring to factory defaults and keeping data?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Ordacle, Jul 18, 2011.

  1. Ordacle

    Ordacle Notebook Guru

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    My U30sd has been acting strange lately: Power4Gear and the Turbo Boost indicator are disabled, I cannot use the Fn keys to change things like volume anymore and there seems to be some sort of video player conflict even though I do not have a codec pack installed. If I restored the system to defaults using the recovery partition, would the data partition remain untouched? If not,what options do I have?

    Bonus question: Optimus does not seem to be working allthat great, and nVidia's latest Verde drivers is not able to detect the 520M discrete card,how can I update the video/Optimus drivers?
     
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  2. J.P.@XoticPC

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    Ordacle,

    If you have two separate partitions, one for your OS and one for your data, you should be able to use the recovery partition on only one partition. When you access it you'll have options asking where you wish to perform the recovery and your OS drive is normally the first partition on the drive (unless otherwise set up differently by you, of course :p).

    Also, we recommend getting the drivers directly from ASUS' support site.
     
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    Perfect. Thanks, J.P. [​IMG]

    It it really necessary to grab the drivers from Asus's site? I'd much rather get them from the actual manufacturers.
     
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    The wizard tells me to backup all of mydata, even if selecting to recover only on the windows partition. Am I really ok doing the recovery as-is, or should I backup the data in the second partition? I normally would backup without hesitation, but I am pretty tight on HDD space and would have to do some serious shuffling around in order to be able to do it.
     
    Ordacle, Jul 20, 2011
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