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juklik · ‎01-27-2013

hi all,

please assist on this issue:

- i got this notebook since december 2012
- no backup software was bundled
- i wrote to asus support with some technical questions and they instructed me to use paragon image backup for windows 8 to make a backup of OS + recovery partition
- so i did, afterwards i did install win 7 x64 but now i decided to switch back to win 8
- all the partitions were successfully restored (in fact i am writing this from my old win 8 installation)
- i want to do fresh install of win 8, but f9 key is not working
- please assist, i do not want to send notebook to asus service, they want to charge me a fee for reinstalling pc even though they were the ones that instructed me to do this backup
- i want to resolve this at home beacuse i have all the data restored so i guess this will be quite simple fix
THANK YOU ALL.

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          119 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online          698 GB      0 B        *

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     F                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1     C   OS           NTFS   Partition    118 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2         SYSTEM       FAT32  Partition    300 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 3         Recovery     NTFS   Partition    600 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 4     D   Data1        NTFS   Partition    339 GB  Healthy
  Volume 5     E   Data2        NTFS   Partition    339 GB  Healthy
  Volume 6         Restore      NTFS   Partition     20 GB  Healthy    Hidden

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Primary            339 GB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Primary            339 GB   339 GB
  Partition 3    Recovery            20 GB   678 GB

DISKPART> select partition 3

Partition 3 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 3
Type    : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
Hidden  : Yes
Required: No
Attrib  : 0000000000000000
Offset in Bytes: 728670142464

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
* Volume 6         Restore      NTFS   Partition     20 GB  Healthy    Hidden

DISKPART>

rewben · ‎01-27-2013

have you tried f9 before? was it working previously?

juklik · ‎01-27-2013

hi rewben
yes - F9 was working properly before

rewben · ‎01-27-2013

it is possible that the cloning process did not restore everything and made the f9 recovery to fail.

maybe you can try:
1. disable the fast startup in your power plan options;
2. goto bios and disable fast boot.

then try again.

juklik · ‎01-27-2013

i was in bios and there is no fast boot option
+ i dont think there is anything that was not backuped because that was complex archive of the FS structure and as you can see all partitions were successfully restored

rewben · ‎01-27-2013

i know; but i suspect that there is still something missing, for instance, the unique id of the partition that f9 key is associated with, so that it can be called out with that key. i am not really sure.

juklik · ‎01-27-2013

as you can see in my first post there is log from diskpart where set id of partition is
Type : de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
that means

GUID partition table disks
For GUID partition table (GPT) disks, you can specify a partition type GUID for the partition that you want to create. Recognized GUIDs include:
EFI system partition: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b

Microsoft Reserved partition: e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae

Basic data partition: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7

LDM metadata partition on a dynamic disk: 5808c8aa-7e8f-42e0-85d2-e1e90434cfb3

LDM data partition on a dynamic disk: af9b60a0-1431-4f62-bc68-3311714a69ad

Recovery partition: de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac

source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771243(v=ws.10).aspx

//edit: applied to windows 8 as well
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825686.aspx

rewben · ‎01-27-2013

ok that's the default by ms.technet for w7.

if that's the case, i think you should be able to restore the factory state using "pc settings > general > remove everything and reinstall windows".

edit: maybe you can try to set the attribute as per this reference?

- reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825212.aspx
- under 5.1 Create a DiskPart script:
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001

juklik · ‎01-27-2013

remove everything and reinstall windows finished with error, pc did not even reboot (according to my opinion it does not see recovery partition). I also tried to reboot PC in service mode (windows 8), when I tried to reinstall PC from this option I got error 80070002 (I think it is the same).

afterwards I executed diskpart and did gpt attribute command, but without any success

DISKPART> gpt attributes=0x000000000000001

The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP GPT

DISKPART> set gpt attributes=0x000000000000001

The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP SETID

rewben · ‎01-27-2013

have you selected the partition? from the reference it's 0x8, not 0x0

G55VW F9 not working after restore/ WIN 8