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Asus G751JT CH71 BLEW AWAY both hard drives!

challenger1
Level 7
I have done the unthinkable and have blown away both of my hard drives. I've just recently installed A Samsung 8:50 Evo SSD. It originally came with just one spinning hard drive and I decided to a date Samsung SSD to the laptop. I did the migration from one hard drive to another and for some reason I formatted the original hard drive since the migration went well. Soon after I decided I wanted a fresh and clean install of A windows 8 disc that I had from a previous build. I then inserted the disc into the optical drive and try to install from there. So I ended up formatting the Samsung Drive to install from the disc and previously I had also formatted the original spinning drive which was the C Drive so that was wiped clean and now the Samsung has been also wiped clean. I should have known better but was not very experienced with laptops and went ahead and did this. And now I can't install and operating system from just a Windows disk and when I try to install the OS on to the original C Drive it also won't let me. There were some partitions left on that original drive including the restore partition but when I click on that there is one file missing that is needed to continue formatting the Samsung Dr to install from the disc and previously I had also form added the original finding Dr which was the sea Drive so that was wiped clean and now the Samsung has been also wiped clean. I should have known better but was not very experienced with laptops and when ahead and did this. And now I can't install and operating system from just aWndows disc. That probably wouldn't work anyways because I didn't use back tracker onto a USB drive. This was running just fine after I had used the migration software from the original hard drive to the Samsung SSD but decided to do a clean install on that. When I try to install from the Windows disk to the Samsung SSD I did format the drive and I'm not seeing any partitions on that drive at all the only partitions that i see are on the C Drive solos were left on that drive but are asking for a file in order to restore which probably wouldn't work anyways. What are my options, RMA or can i still recover somehow? I would appreciate any help on this situation.
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Yes if you can't install a simple window install, you need to be very careful what you do. Probably a gaming notebook is not for you. These notebooks are very powerful and tricky a basic knowledge of windows is required. the instructions in the Sticky thread I linked you too are very well written. If you need a more Basic hand on help I suggest the Eight Forum Tutorials, they'll get you through the basic windows set up. then all you have to do is install your hardware drivers.

If you Really don't want to do this yourself, simple take it to a computer repair store, they get you up and running fairly quickly, Or check through your friends I'll bet you got a geeky one to help you out hands on.
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