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    How to have a window like the first time turning on?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by convitngoc, Dec 13, 2011.

  1. convitngoc

    convitngoc Newbie

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    Hi guys.
    Because i am a newbie so this could be a stupid question. Hope that someone can answer it for me :(
    I have a Asus N53SV-SZ613 notebook. Because of virus, now, a lot of programs and drivers are not working or have been removed or destroyed. I looked around some forums and it is said that if i reinstall my window, my license of win7 home pre will be lost, and cant have SonicMaster (what made me wanna buy my notebook) because i dont have a driver disk when buying my laptop.
    The question is: How can i have a fresh and clean Window 7 Home Pre like the first time turning on the notebook?
    Sorry for my bad English.
     
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  2. Geekz

    Geekz Notebook Deity

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    you could reinstall windows 7 and just download the software from the asus website, check also if you have the windows 7 sticker under your laptop which has your key.

    if not I suggest you call up asus support to confirm about your product key.
     
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  3. convitngoc

    convitngoc Newbie

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    I have checked and, yes, there is a Windows7 Home Pre OA SEA Stikcer which has a product key under my laptop, what is OA SEA? So that if i reinstall Windows7 Home Pre using this product key, my license is kept.
    About driver, i dont find SonicMaster in Asus support page :(
     
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  4. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    There is a recovery partition on pretty much every Asus laptop, you can access it at boot by pressing F9. Choose the option to restore the system to factory state and you'll have your laptop back to the state it was when it came out of the factory, bloatware and all.
     
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    Tijo has a good suggestion, if you decide to do a clean install instead you may be able to find sonicmaster here: ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/nb/

    Or contact ASUS support, in a similar situation I could not find WinDVD (ASUS calls it ASUS DVD) for mine, but I was sent a link for the SoftWware.
     
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  6. convitngoc

    convitngoc Newbie

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    @JOSEA: Thanks for your link, but i can't find SonicMaster anywhere. Someone told me that SonicMaster is included in REaltek AUdio Driver, is it true?
    @Tijo: thanks, i tried to press f9 at boot, the only option is boot from windows so that i press f8 to go to advanced boot menu and choose restore. Did i do right? It took me 15 hours to complete recovering ... can't believe it could be this long
     
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