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    windows 7 recovery.dat error

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by gigantes360, Oct 25, 2009.

  1. gigantes360

    gigantes360 Newbie

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    Hello,

    i recently upgraded my Asus x83vb laptop from home premium 64 to windows 7 64 and it installed fine.

    Then, on the first boot up, i get a big red error message and says Could not find file recovery.dat

    now i researched the prob and found out that its because of the recovery partition. So the solution would be to delete that partition. The problem is that i cannot access the desktop to delete it.

    so how can i delete the partition if i cannot access the desktop or cmd?
     
    gigantes360, Oct 25, 2009
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    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    Lanaya, Oct 25, 2009
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  3. gigantes360

    gigantes360 Newbie

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    ok, i burned a cd and that didnt work and i created a bootable usb and that didnt work either.

    Nothing happens when i put either of those in my Laptop. It simply goes to the ERROR screen and nothing.
     
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  4. Lanaya

    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    did you enter your bios and set either the USB device or your CD drive as the first boot device by looking for "Boot priority" or similar?
     
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    gigantes360 Newbie

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    How can i access the bios. Here's a play by play of what happens.

    1.White letters and a White bar at the bottom of the screen and it says "Windows is loading files..."
    2. Goes to the microsoft loading screen with green loading bar.
    3. screen with gray background and mouse cursor.
    4. Screen with big red "ERROR" on it.

    then nothing happens after that..


    how can i enter my bios.

    and whatever key i hit nothing happens either.
     
    gigantes360, Oct 25, 2009
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  6. Lanaya

    Lanaya Templar Assassin

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    When you first press the power button, tap F2 until it brings you to the bios.
     
    Lanaya, Oct 25, 2009
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    gigantes360 Newbie

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    THANK YOU!!!!

    now its working fine

    again THANKS!!!
     
    gigantes360, Oct 25, 2009
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    An easy solution. Press F8 for Advanced boot options, choose Repair your computer and then do a Startup repair. That worked for me.
     
    christo4o, Oct 29, 2009
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    & no need for deleting the recovery partition
     
    christo4o, Oct 29, 2009
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    MicSpeed Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am sorry... i have the same problem... i read your post but i can not understand how you get the windows 7 without delete the recovery partition... Can you explain me step by step please... thanks
     
    MicSpeed, Oct 29, 2009
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    how did you change the partition to make it work what option on the menu do i select?
     
    thatweirdkid, Nov 3, 2009
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