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

[rewben]

leed80 wrote:
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,

ah.. now I got it (and sorry for the above :/). if this is the case, I think it's fine to return it to the shop after you wiped the disk (for security reasons). all they need to do is to restore it to the factory state (by any means, such as cloning).

[leed80]

rewben wrote:
ah.. now I got it (and sorry for the above :/). if this is the case, I think it's fine to return it to the shop after you wiped the disk (for security reasons). all they need to do is to restore it to the factory state (by any means, such as cloning).

No problem sir :),
Now just I need to put copy of recovery media ( USB recovery) on HDD partition as factory default
and return the laptop back it shop without give them the recovery media(USB recovery),
I want them to do recovery restore from HDD recovery partition not with recovery media(USB recovery)
but 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,
notice: If i lost the recovery media(USB recovery), will can't to create it again with " CREATE RECOVERY DVD or MEDIA ASUS TOOL", because the hdd recovery partition is not created yet.
and DISM method is not enough to restore factory default perfectly, just restore licensed windows 8, asus tools, drivers,some programs like acrobat, flash, players, trial office, functions buttons and ... etc., but without create hidden recovery partition on internal HDD like it was when I bought it,

notice: In the first time after I cleaned my HDD, when I'm trying to do recovery restore from USB recovery
this is showing "unable to reset your pc a required drive partition is missing"
so I had to DISM command,
Also now If you want to do recovery restore, I have to use USB recovery and DISM every time because required drive partition is missing,
this is not normal and I don't want them to notice this problem
I want to return every thing as normal as it was

[Clintlgm]

Yes you can just clean you disk, Asus Repair station has an image of the factory condition of your hard drive and will copy that to your hard drive. You will have your hard drive exactly as it came from the factory.
If you really have concerns just drop in a new SSD and give it to them that way with nothing on it no format not initialized just blank space!! You'll get the same result, a SSD with everything your origanl hard drive had on it when you bought if.

[leed80]

Clintlgm wrote:
Yes you can just clean you disk, Repair has an image of the factory condition of your hard drive and will copy that to your hard drive. You will have your hard drive exactly as it came from the factory.
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okay let me try
just tell me step by step what i do
you can review previous posts to know excellently what happening from the beginning and what I tried before.

[skidoo]

Clintlgm wrote:
Yes you can just clean you disk, Repair has an image of the factory condition of your hard drive and will copy that to your hard drive. You will have your hard drive exactly as it came from the factory.
If you really have concerns just drop in a new SSD and give it to them that way with nothing on it no format not initialized just blank space!! You'll get the same result, a SSD with everything your origanl hard drive had on it when you bought if.

Been following this thread,
Confused.... I made a repair disc in Win 8.
Are you saying I can restore my HHD back to original Win 8 and all partitions on my HHD using just the repair disc,
if I wipe out the drive since I am now running win 7.

[Clintlgm]

If you made this repair disk using Asus Backtracker, yes if you use it, it will recover your NB to factory shipped condition. If you used Macrium Reflect to make an Image of you Drive, Yes if you restore it you will be back to the exact condition you were in at the time the image was created. Any other software that created a repaired disk. I would have no Idea, I do know that Ghost, and Acronis, Disk Images where your system is UEFI will not work not sure about Ghost just have heard of many failures, Acronis can restore your partition but can't correctly configure the boot section. Acronis doesn't seem worried about this therefore I have purchased a Pro Reflect license for my NB, so far I'm please with this back up program and their tech support.

[cl-Albert]

Clintlgm wrote:
Yes you can just clean you disk, Repair has an image of the factory condition of your hard drive and will copy that to your hard drive. You will have your hard drive exactly as it came from the factory.
If you really have concerns just drop in a new SSD and give it to them that way with nothing on it no format not initialized just blank space!! You'll get the same result, a SSD with everything your origanl hard drive had on it when you bought if.

skidoo wrote:
Been following this thread,
Confused.... I made a repair disc in Win 8.
Are you saying I can restore my HHD back to original Win 8 and all partitions on my HHD using just the repair disc,
if I wipe out the drive since I am now running win 7.

Believe there was confusion here between sending the notebook back to ASUS Repair to reinstall the original factory image and creating a Windows 'Repair' Disk which is pretty much a boot disk as far as I know if only a single DVD was created and probably not helpful to reload Win8 in this case.

If the original Win8 ASUS factory image has been deleted or corrupted, there isn't usually an easy way to get it back if you haven't made a back up (you can send the notebook back to ASUS repair/service for reinstallation) although you can always look into installing a non-ASUS factory Win8 image which may not be that cheap or easy depending on how you do it in my opinion, but it's not something I usually try myself.

[skidoo]

cl-Albert wrote:
Believe there was confusion here between sending the notebook back to ASUS Repair to reinstall the original factory image and creating a Windows 'Repair' Disk which is pretty much a boot disk as far as I know if only a single DVD was created and probably not helpful to reload Win8 in this case.

If the original Win8 ASUS factory image has been deleted or corrupted, there isn't usually an easy way to get it back if you haven't made a back up (you can send the notebook back to ASUS repair/service for reinstallation) although you can always look into installing a non-ASUS factory Win8 image which may not be that cheap or easy depending on how you do it in my opinion, but it's not something I usually try myself.

Correct, I believe it was A Repair / Boot disc made using the program within Windows 8,single disc
( just like windows 7 has also ), not ai backtracker unless that was also a factory install at the time I purchased the g75.
I used Macrium Reflect to make an image of windows 8 at the time, but when I review the file that was made inside Macrium,
my "Recovery partition" that is reffered to by many on this forum is not there.
It only shows...NTFS Primary (OS C: )....a FAT 32 Primary (LBA).....and a Unformatted Primary (None)....
but no recovery partition.
What is the FAT32 ( LBA ) primary anyways??

[Clintlgm]

Well If you made a Reflect Image of the disk, your good to go. If you only made a image of the OS partition your screwed as far as Reflect is concerned!

[leed80]

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