jdelaro19 wrote:
There are lots of different ways to do this, but here are a couple that I found to be the easiest.
First one is using Novicorp wintoflash, just google that and you should find the website to download the tool
Second one is this link…intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/
That should get you going. Cheers.
For the benefit of all readers (including newbies), neither one worked for the Asus Recovery DVD. I was able to create a bootable USB flash drive with the contents of the Asus’ Windows 7 Starter Recovery DVD using WinToFlash alright but some time after running the Recovery Program off the flash drive, the program prompted me to insert to the Asus DVD Recovery Disc to a real external optical drive which I don’t have. I just wouldn’t continue with the recovery.
So what I did was I used an original Windows 7 installer I copied from a friend. It was in ISO format so I created a USB flash drive installer using the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool:
store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool
download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB- … 72600.html
Note that if the Windows 7 installer is on a DVD then Novicorp’s WinToFlash can transfer the contents of the DVD to the USB flash drive and make it a bootable installer:
wintoflash.com/home/en/
After successfully installing a different copy of Windows 7, I restarted my netbook and curiously pressed the F9 key during the rebooting process and voila, the option to recover the system to factory settings option appeared!
Somehow, the link (F9) to the hidden Recovery Partition containing the Windows 7 Starter was restored in the Windows 7 bootloader.
So now I am able to set it back to the same state it was when I bought my netbook which contained a licensed copy of Windows 7 Starter. The operating system even thought it was the first time to power up the computer since it left fresh from the factory. I didn’t mind about going back to Windows 7 Starter and wiping the other Windows 7 installation as it wasn’t mine anyway.
Also, I didn’t worry about my documents and updated driver installers as I stored them in a separate partition which was a good idea after all. They were unaffected by the restoration. When I bought the computer, it had only one partition (roughly 250GB) so I created another partition out of it leaving 30GB on drive C and the rest allocated to drive D using the free Easeus Partition Master:
easeus.com/
The only work that needs to be redone is installing my applications, updating them (including the operating system) and customizing my user account settings.
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