Then I received yesterday a G75VW-NH71, and as always make recovery discs re them (I sell on mercadolibre here in Brazil) when I try to do that this model already comes with Windows 8, I came across the problem it does not have AI Recovery, did some research and found right here in the forum, saying that those models that come with windows 8 does not have the AI Recovery, I downloaded the recovery and installed it on the net, he did not find the partition recovery, did procedure in run changeHD.exe still did not work, after some testing could proceed and select the option to generate the dvd iso format, but gave error in the beginning, my exit was using acronis and take a complete copy (with all partitions) and then follow the steps in the manual that came with your notebook, explaining how to pass the recovery on it, put the windows he made a mistake, so I went by pressing F9 when you connect your notebook, there did the recovery that took about 40 minutes, I did complete, he returned to the original factory, leaving me ready to send to the prospective client, in your case, I believe that only a clean installation of Windows 8 could solve, the problem is that I realized that at the underside of the note no longer has the Windows license as possessed in windows 7, then you will have to use some program to get the serial number of your windows and then use it on a new installation from scratch, or from F9 try to achieve full recovery him take a picture with all of the HD partitions again (this time complete with all partitions) consulted on the asus site and while they still do not sell the media recovery with Windows 8, only with WIndows 7, try not to lose your serial number windows 8. I hope I helped in something.
kevz155 wrote:
I have been trying to get Windows 8 installation on to a 256GB SSD(ADATA SX900) vs the 750GB Hitachi HDD that came shipped with the system. It wasn't until I checked the forums that confirmed recovery disks creation is not an option for systems shipped with Windows 8. Windows 8 however has an option to create recovery media onto a pen drive which I did.
So here is my current problem. With no option to perform a clean install, I had used 3rd party cloning software and had successfully cloned my System drive onto the SSD from another computer. Loading the SSD ran everything successfully, Windows 8 booted up and I had managed to install some games on it before finding out, the Windows 8 Live Tiles/Metro UI App no longer work. Clicking to open any App native for the new Start Menu just opens the App, and bounce right back out to Start Menu. Tabbing to the App just shows the App metro icon screen and bounce back out.
With this problem, I had decided to do a factory restore/reset from Windows 8 and also from the aforementioned recovery pen drive. This has all but ended in failure with messages along the lines of "a required partition is missing" etc. or there was an error.
Since for the original 750GB HDD, I had deleted the original System Partition and Data Partition(keeping the Recovery 20GB and other partitions intact), replacing the Hitachi Hard drive also gave me "a required partition is missing when attempting to restore from the drive itself and also with the recovery pen drive.
It seems right now I am in desperate need of a Restore Windows 8 Disk/DVD from Asus in order to do a clean install onto the SSD which I had originally intended. Or does anyone know of a fix to get the Metro UI Apps working again? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS. If ASUS sees this. The G75VW-AH71 online states it comes with 670GTX 3GB graphics but mine was shipped with 660GTX 2GB... Please let me know if this was a mistake on either ASUS's end or Amazon not posting correct information... Also, if you are in the market for the G75VW, stay away from Windows 8 as it is somewhat premature in support
