Problems Re-formatting Asus G50V

I am having some serious issues when I try to re-format my Asus G50V. I won’t lie to you, I am kind of new to computer repair and restore such as this. I have done it before on older computers that run XP, but never one on Vista. So, to help out, I am giving as much detail as possible

I stick the cd (1 of 2) into the tray and restart my computer. When its restarting I go into the Bios and choose to boot off the CD. I let it do its thing and reinstall. When it looks like it’s done, it asks to for the Driver CD. I put the driver CD in and click continue. Now, at this point I don’t touch a thing until the computer boots up windows, installs some of the Asus software and then shuts itself off. I have reformatted about 4 times in the last couple days. The problem is, most of my hardware software isn’t installed. I have no internet hardware and when I try to install something, it is just very slow. And the boot up process takes a good 6 minutes.

I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but most of the stuff that came on my computer is missing. I don’t have the Office suite, the Lightscribe, the Norton Antivirus, etc. Most of the stuff I would get rid of anyway, but not having it there kind of screams to me I am doing something wrong. Plus, I don’t even use the 2 of 2 CD at all. I am wondering, am I trying to re-format this completely wrong, or what? And why am I only use the 1 of 2 CD and the Driver CD

 

The driver installation didn't work out, and reinstall using the DVDs for an install only puts back the OS and drivers, but does not install all the other software that comes with the shipped unit.

If you want the system restored to initial specs, with all pre-installed software, just use the restore partition on the hdd instead. It's faster and more reliable, and you'll get back all that software you're missing in addition to a fully functioning system that you can go through and clean out again to leave what you want behind .

 

Thank you for the help! Now, being a newbie at this (i have never tried booting for the HDD), how do I actually do it? Is it suppsoed to be an option to selcet from when I boot? and will it still work if I have alreayd tried re-formatting from the CDs?

 

I had this very same thing happen. When you run the recovery disk, you'll enter disk 1. Then, it will ask you for the drivers disk. After it's done with that cd, it'll reboot. Enter BIOS, and have the comp boot from Hard Drive first. When windows loads, go to My Computer and look for the drivers disk that should still be in the cd drive. Start that driver disk again (like you would any other disk you enter in the drive) and it'll begin to actually INSTALL the drives for all your hardware. I'm not really sure what it exactly does when it initially asks for the drivers disk, but i do know that it definitely does NOT install the drivers.

 

Press F9 during boot (not sure at what point) and it will boot off the hidden restore partition. If you manage to get this to work, then the rest should work out fine.