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    Question about recovery partition

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by blksprk, Feb 19, 2009.

  1. blksprk

    blksprk Newbie

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    I bought an Asus G50vt-x5 from best buy, Awsome computer. No I have run into a bit of a snag though, the recovery disks that came with the computer are different from the recovery partition, the disks are a clean install and the recovery is not... the OLED display and DirectConsole do not work when installed from the disk and not the partiton...

    Is there any program I can use to backup the recovery partiton and make it bootable? Possibly even edit some of the crappy bestbuy bloat out of it? I am installing linux and have to be very careful not to erase the partition, it would be nice to have peice of mind that its backed up on a disk and can be installed as such.
     
    blksprk, Feb 19, 2009
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  2. Delta_CT

    Delta_CT Notebook Evangelist

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    I used this program to copy the partition:
    http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

    Not sure how to go about modifying it, but I plan to put it back after I do RAID 0 and get my drives wiped.
     
    Delta_CT, Feb 19, 2009
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  3. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Make sure you also install the drivers and needed utilities from the drivers disk, after recovering Windows. (since it appears at least some of the drivers/utils are not installed automatically during recovery)
     
    E.B.E., Feb 20, 2009
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