G751 JY, System Recovery Before Backup?

[Noel]

Hi, i had my new G751 JY G71 delivered yesterday, but i have a little problem, when i restarted i found that there where 74 updates and i have not yet made a system back up on a USB Flash drive yet, will this be a problem? or do i have to do a system recovery to make my PC factory state before i do a backup?

[hmscott]

Noel wrote:
Hi, i had my new G751 JY G71 delivered yesterday, but i have a little problem, when i restarted i found that there where 74 updates and i have not yet made a system back up on a USB Flash drive yet, will this be a problem? or do i have to do a system recovery to make my PC factory state before i do a backup?

Noel, the Asus Backtracker program reads from the Recovery Partition - about 20GB - which is independent from your running boot volume. You can do the updates, installs, etc without affecting the Recovery Partition 🙂

Have fun 🙂

[Tindrael]

Do a backup with Asus Backtracker.

[hmscott]

Tindrael wrote:
Do a backup with Asus Backtracker.

Tindrael is right, the sooner you create the Asus Backtracker flash recovery drive the better - don't delay. 🙂

[Noel]

Ok thanks Hmscott, and Tindreal, Last question please! So i got a Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G3 32GB USB 3.0 Read 150MB/s, Write 70MB/s

will backtracker make it bootable? what if the USB FD is fat32 not ntfs ,will it be done by Backtracker? Cheers!

[hmscott]

Noel wrote:
Ok thanks Hmscott, and Tindreal, Last question please! So i got a Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G3 32GB USB 3.0 Read 150MB/s, Write 70MB/s

will backtracker make it bootable? what if the USB FD is fat32 not ntfs ,will it be done by Backtracker? Cheers!

Noel, Backtacker reformats and partitions the USB drive. With a 32GB drive it will only create a 20GB partition and waste the rest, but it might work. I haven't tried that make/model. After creating do a test restore onto a drive to make sure it works - sometimes it creates ok but the restores fail. Don't forget to remove the 2nd bay drive before restoring, and when creating make sure you don't have any other USB storage connected except for the USB Flash drive you are using for the recovery backup.

Please come back and let us know how the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G3 32GB USB 3.0 works 🙂

[Noel]

hmscott wrote:
Noel, Backtacker reformats and partitions the USB drive. With a 32GB drive it will only create a 20GB partition and waste the rest, but it might work. I haven't tried that make/model. After creating do a test restore onto a drive to make sure it works - sometimes it creates ok but the restores fail. Don't forget to remove the 2nd bay drive before restoring, and when creating make sure you don't have any other USB storage connected except for the USB Flash drive you are using for the recovery backup.

Please come back and let us know how the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G3 32GB USB 3.0 works 🙂

I'm confused now not a tech or pro here just a basic user with few know hows. no idea what is second bay drive,I'm thinking it has to do by opening the back of the PC Right?? and remove the SSD ???? i just wont to make a system backup recovery but as for trying it out i'm not that keen to give it a try, but is there another way one can test it ? I'm afraid to try on my machine. and lets say my Unit get corrupted and i be needing the backup from the USB FD, do i still have to remove the 2nd bay drive? or is it just to test my back up From the USB FD to check if it was successful ?

regards Noel

[andreacos92]

Noel wrote:
I'm confused now not a tech or pro here just a basic user with few know hows. no idea what is second bay drive,I'm thinking it has to do by opening the back of the PC Right?? and remove the SSD ???? i just wont to make a system backup recovery but as for trying it out i'm not that keen to give it a try, but is there another way one can test it ? I'm afraid to try on my machine. and lets say my Unit get corrupted and i be needing the backup from the USB FD, do i still have to remove the 2nd bay drive? or is it just to test my back up From the USB FD to check if it was successful ?

regards Noel

Hi Noel, look at this post and the successives.

I asked about same questions and hmscott was very exhaustive 🙂

[Noel]

format HHD and USB drive and retry to create the backup on the USB drive with Asus Backtracker, until it will work.

This last bit above of the post you linked to me is not clear enough, if it did not work, why format the HHD?

i have been on Asus website and notice my bios is version 202, and there is 203 204 updates, is it best to update after a back up or not important? do i have to update bios ?

thanks.

[hmscott]

Noel wrote:
format HHD and USB drive and retry to create the backup on the USB drive with Asus Backtracker, until it will work.

This last bit above of the post you linked to me is not clear enough, if it did not work, why format the HHD?

i have been on Asus website and notice my bios is version 202, and there is 203 204 updates, is it best to update after a back up or not important? do i have to update bios ?

thanks.

Noel, it's common sense to not erase the original until you have a working restore copy 🙂

The new SSD/HDD will get formated by the restore, so don't bother doing it yourself. Same for the flash drive, the Asus Backtracker will erase it before creating the bootable restore partition on it.

You might want to take your time with this and make sure of what you are doing before doing it. Asking if you should erase the original is a bit worrisome - let your common sense act before folling rote instructions. Write up the steps yourself in your own words / thoughts and have them make sense to you before starting.

And, yes, update the BIOS right away. You need to be running 204 to get the temperature reduction benefits.

Good luck!