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    Reformatting G50Vt.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Mortinator, Nov 12, 2008.

  1. Mortinator

    Mortinator Notebook Consultant

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    Well i just recieved my G50Vt today and i wanna reformat the whole thing. Anyone knows how to do this? There are 2 Recovery CDs and i don't know what to do! Thanks
     
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    simonfzhao Notebook Evangelist

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    1. Insert Recovery Disk
    2. Go in BIOs (Pressing F2 when you see the G series boot screen)
    3. Change boot priority to DVD Drive First
    4. Lappy will reboot, and the rest will be very simple :D

    Edit: or do you mean you want to remove the bloatware?
     
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    Why do you want to reformat?? My A2 arrives Monday.
     
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  4. Mortinator

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    what do you mean by bloatware? When i go to Computer, i saw C, D, E and F drives (150g each) and i want it to be like seperated into 2 instead 320 / 320. And also i was wondering which CD to use because there are 2 Cds. I just wanna remove everything and make it like its new again.. What happened after the lappy reboot?
     
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    Oh, you mean making partitions, I'm not sure but I don't think you can do it with the recovery disks Asus gave you. They way I did it was by using a seperate software, but it's in Chinese so I'm not sure if you can understand it :S

    oh and I think you meant 300/300? xD
     
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    if you known what your doing use this web site to download a all in one boot cd.
    it has reformat software, fdisk, extreme erase, etc... very good software.

    http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
     
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  7. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    If you only want to change the size and number of the partitions, that can be done without reinstalling Windows. Use the integrated Vista partition manager, the bootCD linked above, or any Linux live CD with qtParted on it.
     
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    i used to have a dell notebook and its so easy to reformat it ... i just wanna make the G50Vt as new again and change the partition. Can the recovery CD be used for reformatting?
     
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    I just tried to reformat the notebook but there are some things that arent cleaned, maybe i did it the wrong way..
     
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  10. E.B.E.

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    What do you mean things that aren't cleaned? Recovery partition? IMHO you should leave that alone, it can be useful.

    Recovery CD will only reformat in several pre-setup ways. On 1-HDD computers, it's 1 or 2 partitions on that HDD (besides the recovery partition). I don't know how it is on 2-HDD computers like the G50.

    Again, I suggest do a recovery and then change the partition setup manually to the way you like it. Easiest way.
     
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  11. Mortinator

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    i just realised that the formatting will only erase the first hard disk and i have to format the 2nd hard disk myself.
     
    Mortinator, Nov 12, 2008
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