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    Asus ux32 reinstall windows 7 clean

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by mohebi, Oct 10, 2012.

  1. mohebi

    mohebi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi I would like to do the above and have read the manual which states to press f9 at boot then i believe i should select option 2 after the asus wizard:
    "Recover windows to entire hd" "This option deletes all partitions and creates a new system partition as drive c"
    OK so is this a complete wipe of the hard drive, ie if i have trojans etc? OR do you have to do something else for that and this may not be the full wipe?I want a reformat and reinstall of windows - remove everything and start again. I believe this is called a "clean reinstall"

    Another question i have is that above the instructions for above the manual says "IMPORTANT DO NOT delete the partition *without*(?) a volume label on disk _0. The recovery parition is created at factory and cannot be restored if deleted.

    So if i choose option 2 as shown at beginning of text, does that mean i lose my recovery partition for next time? Or is that something else, if so what is it warning me about - how could i accidentally remove the recovery section if i just follow the asus wizard and select the "recover windows to entire hd option?"

    I dont need any files , so dont need to back up anything - i just want rid any potential malware fully.

    thank you people!
     
  2. quest221

    quest221 Newbie

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    the system(even the one in the recovery partition) comes with the computer is old and there are lots of rubbish software installed. If you have a Windows 7 installation disk, just try to remove all the partitions and then install it from scratch.