Cannot restore after installing new HDD

I got my V1S-B1 yesterday -- the first thing I did was to turn it on, and check out the windows experience score, and poke around at the available software. Then, I powered off, and installed a 7200RPM HDD. I powered back up with the recovery disk, and everything appeared to go very well. I reached what I figure was the final step of the installation, where I actually saw the windows logo -- and then I got a dialog box telling me that "Windows can not be installed on this computer. To install Windows, restart the installation." I clicked OK, and the laptop rebooted. I removed the driver disk, and it booted back into Windows (saw the vista logo again), and got the same dialog. So... I decided it must have been my fault, and started again. 30-40m later, I get the same dialog box.

Does anyone know what is going on here? Any clues appreciated.

- C.

 

That is quite odd...try formatting and reinstalling windows from the disk, again.

 

If I did it again, that would be attempt #3 -- I've reformatted and reinstalled twice already with the exact same results.

 

If you're trying to restore to entire HDD, I suggest trying to restore to 1st partition only (such that the recovery process doesn't try to repartition the HDD). Maybe the HDD is a different size and it doesn't fit with what's hardcoded in the scripts.

 

May I suggest you reformat, And when it asks you for the driver disc dont put it in, Just restart, or click cancel / next until it restarts. See if that works. If it does let vista boot it should come up with a cmd window saying something about a patch, Dont do anything, leave it, it might take half an hour but the patch will run, and then the computer should restart, dont try and install any drivers until the patch is finished.

 

Sorry to hear you have this problem. I had the same thing.
ASUS said bad hard drive--NOT
Bought g1s-a1 from gentechpc and talked to Ken and he says you need to let the restore process run for a long time like 2 hrs approx.
I found this hard to believe but that is what I had to do and it worked. He says the ASUS restore CD is weird and ASUS tech support does not understand this.

1. Put in restore CD and let it run. It does not make a difference what partition you select, 1 or 2 partitions whatever.

2. Put in the driver disk when asked and let it run. Somewhere down the road it will ask you to reboot, do not do it, let it run, it will continue with the install. It is asking you to reboot for a particular item, you do not have to do this it will take care of itself. Go do something else while this is going on.

3. I believe it will shutdown when finished. Not sure because I started to use the computer when I thought it was done. I shut it down and powered up the next day and it installed one more item(?).

4. The only driver not installed was my 1 gb intel turbo card. Downloaded the drivers from intel and installed the driver. Did not use the disk because I wanted to make sure it was the latest driver since there has been some problems getting this card recognized

Hope this works for you.
It worked for me and my G1s works great.

Chuck

 

Can you point me towards these drivers on the Intel site? I didnt see them.

 

I posted separately about how I finally resolved this issue in the V1S owner's lounge. The problem was that very soon after the driver installation starts, a dialog pops up saying "you need to reboot, reboot now/later". I just assumed that it would be prudent to reboot after the drivers were installed. However, when I clicked "reboot later", it continued on installing drivers for another hour or so... Now I'm up and running. Thanks for the suggestions, though!

 

intel turbo driver link: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=2813&DwnldID=13805&lang=eng
Chuck