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    Help me! I am stuck at the recovering now boot screen.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Ev0lutionz, Jan 24, 2009.

  1. Ev0lutionz

    Ev0lutionz Notebook Consultant

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    Tried to reformat, its now stuck at the recovering now.. boot screen. I tried yesterday, it was successful. However, because of a virus in an external HD. I had to reformat again. This time, it didnt work. Anyone can help me? Using the asus recovery disc.
     
    Ev0lutionz, Jan 24, 2009
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    aethelbert Notebook Evangelist

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    hmm. can we have some more details about what you did? Surely the recovery disks ought to work. Can one ask Asus to send new recovery disks?
     
    aethelbert, Jan 24, 2009
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    Ev0lutionz Notebook Consultant

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    Well. After i reformatted once. I inserted my external HD, which i thought to have been cleared of viruses already. But still, it still had the same virus inside. Avast picked it up as imo.exe. Something to do with the autorun.inf. Its a WD external HDD btw. And the HD logo is gone too. So the PC ran really slowly and it beeped. So I decided to have a go at reformatting again. Who knows, this time, It just gets stuck at that screen.
     
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    You could have a look at my Tips and Tricks (link in sig) for some tips on wiping your HDD. If you fully wipe your HDD, delete the partitions, and clear the MBR, there should be no obstacle to making a proper recovery from the optical media.
     
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    Ev0lutionz Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, will check it out. thanks.
     
    Ev0lutionz, Jan 25, 2009
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    Ev0lutionz Notebook Consultant

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    Hey, i just deleted some partition and now i am getting the message, no active partition selected. How do i solve it?
     
    Ev0lutionz, Jan 25, 2009
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    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Hmm. I would guess the recovery process would be able to make the target OS partition active... but apparently it doesn't.

    Use a partition utility (qtParted from a Live Linux distro, PQMagic from FreeDOS, not sure if FDISK (DOS) supports it) and set the first partition active. Exact instructions on how to do so will differ per application, but you should be able to figure it out.

    Best way is I suppose download Knoppix or a similar Linux distro, and use qtparted.

    PS: In case there is no partition, make one (or even better, make 2, 1 for OS, 1 for data).
     
    E.B.E., Jan 25, 2009
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    Nrbelex Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I had this problem - both the recovery partition and recovery disks refused to go past the initial step or two until I used gparted to wipe the drive clean (except for the recovery partition). Later I created a second partition and eventually converted them both to NTFS.

    Good luck,
    ~ Brett
     
    Nrbelex, Jan 25, 2009
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