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    w3v: Recovery Isn't Working

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by primetime, Feb 16, 2006.

  1. primetime

    primetime Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys.

    So I've had my w3v for about 2 months now and I was loving it until this evening. I was just browsing on it, and put it on hibernate, closed the lid and when I tried to start it up again a few mins later it goes to the Recovery thing.

    Now it's all fine because I use SyncToy to keep my files with my desktop and my laptop up to date. But whenever I'd try to recover it, it says:

    Recovery not finish
    Please try again.

    I tried recovery with the CD's that came with the unit, but it's still no go. Any suggestions? Or do I have to RMA this laptop? :(
     
    primetime, Feb 16, 2006
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  2. primetime

    primetime Notebook Consultant

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    OH MAN!

    Fixed it! Good thing I have a linux live cd.

    Basically what happened was that the Recovery Tool kicked in. (I must've pressed something wrong) It then set the Recovery Partition as the active partition so it was the only one it would boot to.

    I used SystemRescueCD to set the active partition back to the Windows Partition (ntfs)

    Phew!
     
    primetime, Feb 16, 2006
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  3. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    Haha...good save! I never would've figured that one out.
     
    AuroraS, Feb 16, 2006
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  4. primetime

    primetime Notebook Consultant

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    LOL Yeah.

    Well was gonna delete the whole partition using QTParted on the Linux Live CD. When I saw 2 partitions (FAT and NTFS) the FAT partition is for the restoration and of course the NTFS partition is where Windows resides.

    QTParted showed the FAT Partion as active so I set the NTFS as the active one and now I'm typing here :)
     
    primetime, Feb 16, 2006
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  5. Underpantman

    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    Just a quick question how did you manage to change it in the first place? I always assumed that it wouldnt be an easy thing to do by mistake, but maybe it is. If you remember how you did it maybe it will save someone else down the track!
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    :)
     
    Underpantman, Feb 19, 2006
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