G55 Question - Can you restore to factory settings using the F9 menus?

[Learjetz]

Or do you HAVE to use burned CDs through the recovery tool?

[john_from_ohio]

The F9 "should" work just fine to restore to factory unless you have deleted/removed the recovery partition.

Having a set of recovery disks ( not possible yet for asus with Win 8 I guess since recovery utility is awol ) does the same thing without requiring a viable recovery partition still on the hard drive.

[Learjetz]

My 500GB hdd is split into 2 250GB partitions for some reason. Any idea where the recovery information is stored? Is it accessible through windows?

[cl-scott]

I'm actually kind of working on cleaning up some documentation in preparation for a sticky post on something like this. Not sure if I'll get to it this week, but keep an eye out.

Anyway, as I understand it, the built-in Windows recovery system should pick up things on the recovery partition and integrate that all in.

[Learjetz]

Thanks for your help