"ai recovery" recovery disk complains about 2 hard drives

Hi,

I bought an asus notebook that has 2 hard drives. It came with windows 7 premium installed. The first disk contained 2 partions and the 2nd had one partion formatted as ntfs. I burned the recovery disks then replaced windows with linux. Now, I want to restore windows. But, when I run the recovery disk it complains:

"The recovery process has detected more than one hard drive. To ensure the accuracy of the recovery, please remove additional hard drives and keep only one in the system, then run the recovery process again. The system will now power off."

Should I do what it says, or is there a simpler solution? Is this normal?

 

At this point the recovery partition is gone from the hard drive, correct?
If that is the case, and you want to remove Linux entirely, use a program to wipe the boot drive How to Erase a Hard Drive in Freeware | eHow.com
Then try to use the recovery disks. Once you get up and running I would recommend using Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition - Overview
to create an image to an exernal hard drive for easy recovery. (If the recovery disks work you will have 2 ways to restore)
IF you have data on the second hard drive remove it physically during the recovery process just to be safe.

 

Thanks. I used a linux cd to boot from, instead. After deleting the partions using fdisk, I got the same error message when running the recovery disks. I then used a windows 7 dvd to run bootrec /fixmbr to replace grub on the master boot record. Still the same error message when running the recovery disk.

So, I think that means you have to do what it says. I did that, removed the 2nd hard drive and have restored the system and am now formatting the second hard drive.

So, buyers of asus laptops beware, or whatever laptops use AI Recovery for their recovery disks. If you have more than one hard drive, you will be asked to remove one to restore using it's recovery software, maybe.