Asus Eee Pc 1001px Recovery Cd Download
Restore eee pc to factory settings with Asus System Recovery or AOMEI OneKey Recovery. EEE PC recovery disk is a system recovery media for Asus eee pc laptop or notebook which contains operating system backup image files. It can be a partition, an USB flash drive, a cd/dvd, etc. That is to say, the place to save os image of eee is not limited to local or internal disks, but can be external storages like usb, cd, dvd, etc.
I'm not sure what I've done but yesterday out of nowhere when loading up my Windows partition I got a 'BOOTMGR is missing' message of some sort, so I decided just to try out the recovery partition. I loaded it up, clicked on 'Recover', it said it was initializing, a little command prompt box popped up for a split second and it restarted. I thought, 'Wow, that was fast' and anxiously awaited my new, clean Windows system. Now, however, it tells me the drive doesn't exist. I've tried several times and the same thing.
My recovery partition is completely intact (and this computer is only about a week old), I don't know if it relies on something else as well? Does anyone know why it doesn't work and how I can fix it? I have a boot loader (grub) installed which lets me choose between the various partitions. I tried pressing F9, but nothing happened. The menu loads up, I scroll down to 'Windows Recovery Environment (loader)' and it loads up. First, it asks for my preferred language then gives me a list: Recovery, Backup, Exit. I choose Recovery, it warns me I'll lose all my data, I click continue, and a box pops up saying 'Initializing.'
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Then the command prompt pops up for a split second and closes. Do you know where I could get a copy? My netbook doesn't have a CD drive which complicates things a little. Anyway, thanks a lot for responding!
Looking for some input from other people who took up the recent Eee PC 1001PX deal from Catch of the Day. Picked mine up from the post office this afternoon and it's been my date for the night. Started off well but things soon turned sour. Because it seems there is no way to do a factory restore if the recovery partition is deleted or stops functioning. There are no recovery discs in the box. There's no installed utility for burning recovery discs, or any reference to the procedure in the documentation.
After searching, I found reports ASUS is no longer including recovery discs or a recovery disc creation utility, but there's now an option to create a recovery USB stick in the F9 recovery console. However, that option doesn't appear on some models, and it seems this 1001PX is one of them. According to one person who complained, ASUS's recommendation if you need to do a restore is to return the netbook to them.
More information throughout this thread: I don't consider this acceptable. What do others who've received this netbook think? I'll be giving ASUS a call on Monday to request a recovery disc and report back on whether they oblige. Acer netbook buyers confronted this same issue a year or two back. The recovery software was on a dedicated proprietary partition.
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If any attempt was made to fiddle with the setup or if there was some overall partition error then there was no way to restore from a non-existent BackupDisk, so to speak. The funniest and most irritating part was trying to explain this Disk lack to the phoneTech support people. Circuitous logic abounded to everyone's enduring frustration. Most people just chose to image the entire harddrive structure, including boot sectors and all relevant original settings, rather than try to explain to sales reps why the whole Recovery thing on the same disk as the puter was pretty stoopid. I saw a strange phenomenon in Amazon.com reviews where people who raised the issue were savaged and the reviews rated 'helpful' where those which said 'what are these people complaining about? You can recover from the hard disk, just leave that partition alone'.
So it's not just tech support that's clueless - seems a large part of the userbase also lacks the battle scars and foresight to appreciate why it's a problem. The trouble with imaging in this situation is it's a bit more hit and miss than OEM recovery discs, and you have to test it, which means simulate screwing up your partitions then do a test restore, with no second chance if it doesn't work. It's a catch 22. You must image and test restore to substitute for the lack of recovery discs, but it's unwise to do that without recovery discs to fall back on. Just in response to fenger's bumping of the thread, the last reply I received from ASUS was: If there is no buckup option, I am afraid you have to call 1300 278788 between 9am-6pm Monday - Friday for further technical support.
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We are sorry for the inconvenience. Soon after I started this thread, I cloned the 1001PX's hard disk (MBR and all partitions) with EASEUS Todo Backup. However, to be extra careful, I tested the procedure on my MSI Wind netbook first - cloned the drive, installed Ubuntu over everything, then restored. It successfully returned everything (XP and recovery partition) to its previous state. But it didn't go quite so well for the 1001PX.
After the restore, XP worked and the recovery partitions were there, but the recovery function was no longer accessible via the F9 key. The only way to boot into the recovery was to install Ubuntu, which set up Grub to recognise the recovery partition. Then I was able to test whether the built-in recovery function (it's based on Norton Ghost) would return the system to its original state so that F9 would work again. In other words, I ran smack into the catch 22 I warned of in my second post above. And all the experimenting with cloning and restoring left me too weary to battle with ASUS over recovery discs. I don't have an immediate need for them, but the issue will probably come up again when it's time to sell the system and I have to somehow explain this crap in my item listing.