Posts by garykf16

Will do, the expertise and assistance are appreciated. For the time being, I'll back up an image to the spare HD until a resolution is found to the core issue.

I'll have to take this up with an Asus chat rep. Either that or keep wasting time + DVDs.Or just not worry about it. Keep my data backed up, if the HD ever kills the OS, I'll just get a real Win 7 disc and not worry about it.

OK, successful reload from the DVD restore set. Rebooted and started the auto-partitioning process. I selected Option 3 this time....restore to entire HD with 2 partitions. Everything happens in a command prompt window. Diskpart.exe...

Sorry for the delay.... *doing other stuff, etc*   Partition Wizard is a really good tool, but I had to figure out how to "remove" the 4 partitions, they were still there after deleting (unallocating) them. My fault,...

I think the HD itself is OK, it's the one which came factory in the laptop. No errors anytime else. I cloned it to a new Seagate XT hybrid drive, got that for faster bootup and 7200 rpm.

OK, I tried the shutdown trick as the system is booting into Boot Mgr, but it did not work. It only changes the BIOS order back to the optical drive, presumably in an effort to check it for a bootable OS.   I...

I'll give that a try shortly, headed home in a few mins. Not to worry, the HD is a spare, I wouldn't dare try this on the one with my only working OS. I'm making sure this works as it should before I'll let it near my HD. I just can't...

I've run into a problem following a restore from a just-created DVD set. The Asus Preload Wizard appears to partition the HD as requested, but simply loops back to the beginning of the Wizard procedure (the select your language dialog...

Good point. I guess I'll stick with standard DVDs. Better to know I have a greater chance of a working set of recovery media if they are ever really needed. My choice has been the Taiyo-Yuden Watershield discs. I have never made a...

I recently purchased an Asus N56VZ laptop, which is a fantastic machine. One thing I need to get done shortly is create a set of recovery discs. Asus does not provide any disc media with the machine, so this is rather...