Confusion on recovery/reinstall for v6va

I own the v6va and would like to reinstall everything from scratch. I've never done this before but understand it is not that complicated and I have gotten some good advice from many of the other postings here on how to do this. However, I'm a little bit confused on which CD is which. I received two recovery CD's that came wrapped in the Windows XP booklet. I also received two other CDs, one is the drivers for the w3 notebooks revision 5, and the second one is the drivers for the v6 series notebooks revision 4. Which is which and what do I reinstall first?

 

The on wrapped with the Windows XP book. Make sure you have all the stuff that you want to keep on discs or on another hard drive before you do the reformat. You will lose everthing that is on that drive.

Then once Windows is installed...use the v6 series notebooks revision 4 disc to get all of your drivers....or download them from the ASUS site.

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the reply. Any idea on why I received the w3 drivers CD as well?

 

I think that was not intended, I only got a V6v drivers disk.

To do a recovery(or reinstall) just boot up with Disk 1 Recovery in the ODD, and follow the instructions.

 

Cool. I'm also in the process of transferring all of these CDs I received with my note books to one DVD. So would I just put all of the files from recovery CD 1 to the root of the DVD and make the DVD bootable? Are any of the things on Recovery CD2 vital? What exactly is on the second recovery disk?

 

How can I tell if the drivers on the web site are more current than the drivers I have on the CD that came with my notebook?

 

You can check the readme file on the CD - usually it lists the versions of all the drivers on the CD.
You can then match up those versions to the ones you see listed on the Asus website.

To be safe, I just use the ones on the Asus website...

 

Like Coriolis said, just boot from the recovery CD and follow the instruction, it'll ask for the driver disk at the end. The whole process takes about 1 hour or so.

The drivers on the web site will almost always newer than the one on the CD. For me, I usually don't upgrade drivers unless something broken with the exception of graphic drivers. For that I use Omega Driver from www.omegadrivers.net

 

So I was checking the web site and there are a bunch of drivers listed. Do I have to download each one individually or is there a zip file that contains all the drivers as a whole? And what about my DVD question above?

 

Yes, all individually.

 

Which option do I choose when starting the recovery disk? I selected what I thought was the correct option but now the computer says I only have 28MB left on drive C and about 30GB on drive D. I have a 100GB harddrive. The option I selected was #2 on the recovery disk that stated something about a recovery for drive 1. Please tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it. I want to start completely fresh. I also want to change the amount of space on drive C and D and change to ntfs instead of fat32.

 

Anybody. please help

 

OK, If I recall correctly, Option 1 means a full recovery, meaning everything is wiped and defaulted to factory settings, with 3 partitions(2 mains, and 1 backup). Option 2 Means to wipe the main drive(The OS one) to factory settings. Option 3 means to factory default everything but make 1 drive, and 1 backup.

To change to NTFS, there is a shortcut link on the desktop, its called NTFS converter I believe