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    How do I revert back from the disks I made when I first got my ux31a

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by MSGaldenzi, Jan 20, 2013.

  1. MSGaldenzi

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    Ok, so when I first got the computer, I burned the recovery disks. I then upgraded to 8. I am now going to be selling it and the buyer wants it back to stock configurations so I tried for the life of me to get the disks to work and I have no idea how to get win7 back on from the disks. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried loading from a backup, but it still went as win8. It even went through the screens and said that it was installed and such. Could it be on a different partition? I am really stumped.

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    You need to boot from the disc.
     
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    Did that and it even ran me through what looked like an install. When it said complete then restarted, it was back in windows 8 unchanged.

    So are you saying that I would just run through it the same way that I would if I were to do if I was doing a fresh install from a win 7 disk? How I did it was through the windows 8 menu
     
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    The original discs should have had a windows 7 image on them, are you sure you are standard booting (not UEFI) from the disc and not some recovery partion? (I don't think you should be pressing the recovery key, but booting like normal from an install CD).
     
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    Just tried it again and no luck...

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    I go through windows 8, change pc settings, general, general, then advanced start up. Then boot from CD, then when I have the disk in it boots to windows 7 and I run the recovery.

    Here is the Drive setup
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    crapo... so I formatted the drive and tried to install it that way and now I can't because it says that it needs to be in GPT partition style and I don't have a way to format it that way. I'm completely stuck now... HELP!
     
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