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    UL30vt SSD upgrade ERROR recovery.dat when I try backup disks

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by NYCtech, Jun 30, 2014.

  1. NYCtech

    NYCtech Notebook Consultant

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    Please help.

    I have an old ul30vt and an intel 60gb SSD. The original 180GB HDD is long gone.

    I formatted the HDD and tried Xp which didnt work. Now I want to reinstall windows 7, which I have an image of when I had it working on the ssd.

    I made a clone/image of the system when it was running to my external drive with the 60GB SSD. But now I cant remember how I managed to use the image. So i tried using the recovery disks but when it reboots and about to go into windows 7 it gives me that big red letters ERROR c:\recovery.dat

    I only have a mac which I do have VM to windows 7, could I use that to reinstall the image to the 60GB ssd if I take it out of the laptop and into an enclsoure.

    Is there an easier way to fix this?
     
    NYCtech, Jun 30, 2014
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    can anyone help please, I don't know how to get this image back. ive got windows 8 demo running on it, can I use windows 8 backup, under control panel, to reimage the windows 7 image?
     
    NYCtech, Jul 2, 2014
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    What did you use to create the image?
     
    Prostar Computer, Jul 3, 2014
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    I created it originally when I had a desktop, don't have one now to put it in, I also don't remember how I did it to be honest because it seems asus mobos/bio don't seem to like a downsize in hdd when trying to use the restore software/cd.
     
    NYCtech, Jul 5, 2014
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    was there a reason for the question?

    any ideas, im feeling like this is a ghost forum :)

    will the image on the external HDD work if i run it from windows 8 control panel restore under desktop?
     
    NYCtech, Jul 5, 2014
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    Looks like the disks use the recovery partition on the original HDD. If that's the case then there is not much you can do except try to get an OEM disk from asus.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 6, 2014
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    No they don't, the recovery disks you create using AI Recovery burner are actually the recovery partition itself. When you load all 4 recovery disk's onto a hard drive you are loading the factory recovery partition onto the hard drive. Once it has been loaded you don't need the disk and everything (Windows, drivers, etc...) get loaded from the recovery partition.

    For some reason, the recovery partition from the disk's doesn't load properly onto an ssd. What you can do is clone just the recovery partition (not Windows and everything) from the old hdd onto the ssd then screw in the ssd into the notebook and it will load configure/windows.

    One Issue I am having is that the UL30VT CPU runs significantly hotter with the SSD installed (Crucial MX100) and I can't figure how to get it to stay cool like when the original hdd is installed.
     
    HaltandStop, Jul 27, 2014
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    How hot is the SSD getting? What load/frequency/voltage is your CPU running at compared to before?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 29, 2014
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