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

[Fixon]

No. I boot with w8 and what ever i choose it doesnt alow me to do anything. Som files/partition is missing 😕

[Fixon]

Hello guys 🙂

Finally i have madet install w8.
I have installed a clean w8 and after that i boot my recovery extern hdd with my original w8 and installed it from there.

One thing that i liked is when i installed a clean w8, w8 has recognized my seriell number from BIOS and it was activated after that 🙂

THANK YOU ALL FOR REPLYING

[GottiBoi55]

Fixon wrote:
Hello guys 🙂

Finally i have madet install w8.
I have installed a clean w8 and after that i boot my recovery extern hdd with my original w8 and installed it from there.

One thing that i liked is when i installed a clean w8, w8 has recognized my seriell number from BIOS and it was activated after that 🙂

THANK YOU ALL FOR REPLYING

You can still use the"Recovery Partition" on your external drive to create recovery media by using the ASUS Backtracker Utility (under utilities at bottom of link)
You can create recovery media on DVD, or USB bootable drive.
So in the future if you have another OS disaster you can recover much easier!

[rewben]

glad to know that you solved the problem all by yourself 🙂

[leed80]

Hi guys
I had same same same problem exactly
I read more more mores articles about imgex, gimagex,DISM, WAIK, WADK, ......etc
what's the solution?
just install clean windows 8 ???? after that every thing will be restored when I boot from my windows 8 recovery USB???
should be I create some partition before install a clean windows 8
should be GPT or MBR hard disk?
like primary partition, EFI partition, MSR partition?
NTFS type, FAT32 type?
how much size must be?

finally please give link to download a clean windows 8 x64
because i tried to install a clean windows 8 x32
but the following message is showing"
"the product key entered does not match any of the windows images available for installation"

please help me.
note:I have Asus N65VZ s4298h

[rewben]

first of all, did you or did you not create your recovery usb using asus recovery tool? which version of windows is your stock OS?

to perform a clean install, you will need the windows install media. unfortunately, if your stock OS is w8, there is no such legit ISO that can be accessed publicly and legally, yet. you will need to get one from other means.

[leed80]

rewben wrote:
first of all, did you or did you not create your recovery USB using asus recovery tool? Which version of windows is your stock OS?

To perform a clean install, you will need the windows install media. Unfortunately, if your stock OS is w8, there is no such legit ISO that can be accessed publicly and legally, yet. You will need to get one from other means.

Now I discovered a new problem related with windows 8 recovery
When I did a clean install from USB recovery with DISM command, it was installed perfectly an recover my original windows 8
but I noticed that no recovery partition created on my HDD like before when I bought the laptop, when I go to disk management just find one partition (HDD) and DVD Rom,
Also when I want to create recovery disc, no recovery partition to create recovery from it,
Now if I want to recovery my original windows 8 with F12 button and without USB, I can't because no recovery partition on my HDD, and always I will need to USB recovery and DISM command,
I thinks the problem happened when I try to install windows 7 where I cleaned the GPT disk with clean command in diskpart environment because I couldn't to install windows 7 on GPT and converted to MBR
Must I to initialize my HDD before used DISM command to recovery my original windows 8 from USB recovery?
Must I to initialize it? To it can recovery windows 8 as factory default and create automatically hide recovery partition on my HDD to I can recovery from my HDD without USB recovery

I want set my HDD as factory default and contains on recovery partition of original windows 8

[Clintlgm]

leed80 wrote:
Now I discovered a new problem related with windows 8 recovery
When I did a clean install from USB recovery with DISM command, it was installed perfectly an recover my original windows 8
but I noticed that no recovery partition created on my HDD like before when I bought the laptop, when I go to disk management just find one partition (HDD) and DVD Rom,
Also when I want to create recovery disc, no recovery partition to create recovery from it,
Now if I want to recovery my original windows 8 with F12 button and without USB, I can't because no recovery partition on my HDD, and always I will need to USB recovery and DISM command,
I thinks the problem happened when I try to install windows 7 where I cleaned the GPT disk with clean command in diskpart environment because I couldn't to install windows 7 on GPT and converted to MBR
Must I to initialize my HDD before used DISM command to recovery my original windows 8 from USB recovery?
Must I to initialize it? To it can recovery windows 8 as factory default and create automatically hide recovery partition on my HDD to I can recovery from my HDD without USB recovery

I want set my HDD as factory default and contains on recovery partition of original windows 8

Well no you can't you cleaned your Disk! that removed everything. Your system was originally set up UEFI GPT, you changed it to BIOS MBR so you can never return it to factory original condition. Had you used Asus BackTracker and created a Restore USB media you could have use that to restore your NB to original. Most all of your options for OS install are covered in this thread

[leed80]

Clintlgm wrote:
Well no you can't you cleaned your Disk! that removed everything. Your system was originally set up UEFI GPT, you changed it to BIOS MBR so you can never return it to factory original condition. Had you used Asus BackTracker and created a Restore USB media you could have use that to restore your NB to original. Most all of your options for OS install are covered in this thread

So?
No solution?
Can't I to create GPT ,EFI, MSR and .... etc partitions?
I tried before to convert HDD to GPT but no result, is not showing in the BIOS?
and had to convert it to MBR to show in the BIOS and complete install original windows8 from USB,

I need help to restore my HDD to factory default set.

[rewben]

leed80 wrote:
So?
No solution?
Can't I to create GPT ,EFI, MSR and .... etc partitions?
I tried before to convert HDD to GPT but no result, is not showing in the BIOS?
and had to convert it to MBR to show in the BIOS and complete install original windows8 from USB,

I need help to restore my HDD to factory default set.

i have tried to remind and warn people about this too many times: you MUST back up your stock recovery partition FIRST before you try do something that is irreversible like what you did.

i do not know why you want to go back to the factory default state but for whatever reasons, you can only do this on your own if you have created a recovery media using ASUS tool in the first place BEFORE you make any changes to your stock hdd (if the stock windows is w8, you could have used any compatible tool for your laptop from ASUS to create a backup recovery media for this purpose)

at this point, you still have some options if you insisted on getting back the factory defaults:

1. send the laptop back to the service center and ask for reformatting and restoring the hdd to the factory defaults; or
2. go to a shop that sells the same laptop model and ask if they can create the recovery media for you.