Lemme guess........"Clean Installs" that harshed you rig.....
Can help you out on this, you might get lucky and find another user. If not the only option is to make sure the original drive is in it and send it into ASUS to have it reimaged for a nominal fee + shipping charges.
Ill just reiterate again for posterity.....
There is no need to wipe a laptop and reinstall. Bloatware is extremely limited and takes like 5 mins to eradicate with Ccleaner. There are cases that even with the Esupport folder folks still could not get it back to factory state.
Not like the good 0ld days when recovery media used to ship with the machines.

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