How to recover Windows 8

[Fixon]

Hi guys

I have problem to recover windows 8.

When my g75vw was new i installed windows 8 and made a clean copy to a extern hdd from recovery partition. I just made a copy/paste. Then i installed some widnows 7 but now i want to install my original win8.
When i installed windows 7 my recovery win8 partition dissapeard from computer and now when i putt my extern hdd with windos 8 recovery i start with the windows 8 loggo and click on recover my system and after that i receive a information that some files are missing and i can not install widnows.

Please help me how to recover my windows 8

[leed80]

rewben wrote:
ah.. sorry about that @Fixon you do have .swm (not .wim) in sources folder.

i think the process is:
1. boot into recovery; it should be pressing win key + i; then goto change pc settings > general > advanced setup > restart now; select advanced options and then command prompt;
2. in the console, identify your OS partition (assuming it's c:\)
3. navigate to the sources folder in your external hdd;
4. issue command: Dism /apply-image /imagefile:install.swm /swmfile:install*.swm /index:1 /applydir:C:\

*be careful* this is just my best guess! guys, please correct me if i am wrong.

That was useful
Thaaaaaank you sooooo much Mr. rewben



Is solved this complicated problem by after many many tries
I used the disk part tool
Select the disk
Convert it from GPT to MBR
Create primary partition
Rip or extract recovery image files from usb to primary partition with imagex or dism command and use (WAIK AND WADK) as rewben wrote
Boot with no EFI usb
Reset my PC and restore default factory.

Now I will tell you why I installed windows 7,

I had problem with my laptop, big problem

When I play games on my laptop, temperature is very very hot and high; I'm used external cool fan but is not useful
Freeeeeeezing and ALT+CTRL+DEL and POWER button are not useful to shutdown the LAPTOP, only removed the battery and shutdown the laptop,

Sometimes my LAPTOP is hanging when I'm using the windows not gaming and the laptop is not hot,
Installed all windows update but still the problem,
So I doubted in windows 8 and removed it and installed windows 7 with all drivers,
but still the problem same same problem in windows 8,

Now tell me what's the problem with my new laptop?
Is there a problem with Nvidia graphics card settings?
Is there a problem with some hardware?
Tell me what do I do?


Spec.
ASUS N56VZ-S4298H, Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM 2.30 GHz, 12GB Memory, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6" HD LED, GeForce GT650M 4GB, Windows 8 .
I bought it with 1500$ .


Best regards,
Waleed
IT Assistant

[Clintlgm]

It sounds very much like your GPU and CPU may need repasting! You can verify that by using Hwinfo64 run sensors, look at all the readings you will have CPU and GPU Load, Temps and Fan Speeds. Once you see all these reading run Furmark, 15 min highest resolution for your NB, You should peak out about 10 minutes into it at about 80-85 maximum if your going higher than that you probably have a hardware problem. Run something like HD Tune with this program you can run a burn in test on your CPU and Ram again at 100% load temp should stay below 80C to Low 80's if your NB needs repasting these program will push them to there limit and, They will Throttle at around 97C to protect themselves. If that happens you'll have to repaste or RMA it for a repaste?? I see you don't have a Gaming NB, so I have no Idea what normal temps are for your Model. I still think the bun in test above should make it clear to you if you have a hardware problem or not.

Goggle for the programs if you don't have them

[cl-Albert]

@Waleed, saw that you also posted in the non-ROG notebook area and posted a reply at The problem with games ASUS N56VZ

[leed80]

Anything else?
is somebody here?

[Clintlgm]

Well Leed80, there's not much more we can do to help you out. If you over heating and you have cleaned out your fans and heat sinks. The only thing left it to have your CPU and GPU repasted. RMA or take to a repair station near you.

To return your note book back to factory condition you will have to take to a repair station, you have deleted the partitions that held that information. Or find a friend that has the exact same notebook as yours and have them create a restore media for you.

[cgren]

The best way is to install recovery software and do a weekly backup of your system, thats what i do. 10mins of your life a week wont hurt you, so if ever you came into some sort of problems and windows does not respond well, you can just run the software and hit recover...

[rewben]

cgren wrote:
The best way is to install recovery software and do a weekly backup of your system, thats what i do. 10mins of your life a week wont hurt you, so if ever you came into some sort of problems and windows does not respond well, you can just run the software and hit recover...

yes; it's too bad that there are still many people who ignore this simple practice 😕

every time i do a clean install, it will take me days to restore the system with the same setup. with the simplest recovery tools, such as cloning, all i need is under 20 minutes to make the system work again.

[leed80]

Guys
I had recovery media
I created into USB
I did it before I cleaned my HDD
But when I want to do recovery restore from USB, I can't, because no recovery partition on my HDD
so i had to use DISM command to extract swim's files from recovery media ( USB) to HDD and install original windows 8 with license and all programs and ASUS tools are installed, but no recovery partition is created on my HDD like before
so every time I need to do recover restore, I have to use DISM command and I can't to restore it from my HDD recovery partition because it's not created when I recover it from USB recovery with DISM command,
Now I want to return it back to the shop because I didn't find a solution for errors, heating, freezing and hanging,
So I have to return it back as I bought it,
I have to restore it as factory default as GPT and hide recovery partition on HDD,
I want to anybody can do recovery restore from HDD not USB recovery,

[Clintlgm]

Why worry about it the first thing Repair is going to do is restore your hard drive to factory original. You have to beg them not too most of the time.

[leed80]

Clintlgm wrote:
Why worry about it the first thing Repair is going to do is restore your hard drive to factory original. You have to beg them not too most of the time.

Because If I give the laptop to the shop without recovery media(USB recovery), they can't to do recovery restore, because no recovery partition is created on HDD when I resorted the recovery with DISM command from USB recovery to extract swim's files to install,
And I don't want them to notice this point,