#Asus sonicmaster factory reset install
Once I get my hands on a Windows 8 DVD I'll just say to hell with it and clean install when the need arises. The best I can do from there is Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > System Image > System Image Recovery and then it prompts me to "Chose an account". The "Use a Device" menu option is missing from the F9 Boot Menu. I still don't know how you do a recovery without the disk set. It would have been nice if the included instructions had mentioned that. The last e-mail I got from ASUS states that the utility they linked me to will also make a set of recovery disks. I probably could have gone one or two more steps and still backed out but didn't want to push my luck. There is a Sources folder with some install.swm files in it on the recovery drive. That's as far as I was brave enough to go. I'm sure it would list other devices if they were plugged in. If I go there it lists the USB drive I booted from. The Use a device option got me a "Use a USB drive, network connection or Windows Recovery DVD". After selecting Language and keyboard layout I got a menu with Continue, Use a Device, Troubleshoot and Turn Off. Anybody else run into a similar problem or have any advice? I sent another e-mail to ASUS about this and I'm just waiting for a reply. Pressing F8 does nothing and Windows just bots up normally. I do believe that these are the options you normally get when you press F8 during boot up in windows 8.
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Which is the Windows System Image recovery utility. Troubleshoot just leads me to Advanced options > System Image > System Image Recovery. Pressing F9 during boot up is supposed to launch the recovery option but all that gets me is the Continue, Troubleshoot, and Turn off options.
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I also made an image of the EUFI partition and OS Partition. I did create a recovery disk, it was about 16 GB. There are two of those, one 600 MB and one 20 GB.
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No explanation as to why you need to shrink the recovery partition either.
#Asus sonicmaster factory reset how to
What I got in that was a utility to shrink the recovery partition and instructions on how to make a Windows Recovery disk and make an image with the "Windows 7 File Recovery" utility in control panel. I e-mailed ASUS and got a link for a download. Looks like the manual is written for Windows 7. The included manual lists it and tells you how to use it but its MIA. It's not listed in the available downloads either. I decided to burn a set of factory recovery disks and low and behold there is no Recovery utility installed. I just purchased and received a new ASUS K75DE laptop.