hmscott wrote:

If you already blew away your original Asus OS Build, you can't use Asus Backtracker, it is too late. You need to make the flash recovery drive before you erase the drive. I would recommend testing your Asus Backtracker flash recovery create on another HDD/SSD to make sure it is working before blowing away your original Asus OS Build.

Deleting the original 20GB recovery partition is considered as "blowing away"?

BigDRim wrote:
Deleting the original 20GB recovery partition is considered as "blowing away"?

BigDRim, blowing away the original partitions and installing a "clean" Windows install from Microsoft Media is what I was thinking of. But yes, erasing or blowing away your only backup of the original OS Recovery data is "blowing it away".

If you have completely lost the ability to restore the original Asus OS Build, then you have blown away the original recovery capability.

If asked, no one would say throwing away or blowing away the original installation Media that came with their laptop is a good idea, but for some reason many give no thought to erasing the original boot disk and putting on their own install of Windows.

It is an amazing gap in thinking that happens more often than you think. We get people here all the time looking for a way to get their original OS installation back, and we have to tell them there is no way to get it back except by RMA'ing back to Asus, or returning to the seller if it they are still in the return period of their purchase.

If you have a working Asus Backtracker Flash recovery drive, or have kept your original Asus OS HDD on the shelf as a backup, the resulting OS recovery restore to a new SSD/HDD can be safely altered as you see fit.

I delete the recovery partition and associated partition, and the secondary partition on the boot drive, and merge all the free space into the C partition.

But, I have 2 Asus Backtracker recovery USB flash drives that I never reuse for anything else, they are taped into the original box, so I am safe to play with the restored OS partitions.

Always make sure you have a backup.

Never assume you are smarter than the Engineers that built and configured the hardware / OS for your laptop, at best you can do as well, unlikely you will do better than they have with the OS install.

Noone has ever reported their Windows install is faster or better than the original Asus OS install, benchmarks show the Asus Build generates as fast or faster results.

Uninstalling Asus Applications after restoring the original OS takes 5 minutes, a far shorter time to completion than doing a from scratch install from Microsoft media.

You have 1 laptop to install the OS, Asus has 100k's, millions over the years, they have far more experience at doing it right, and have a process in place to make sure it works correctly. And even they make mistakes.

If you bought the laptop to play with doing OS installs instead of gaming, ignore what I am saying and have fun building OS's on your ROG laptop.

If you are doing OS imaging as your focus on an ROG laptop, you are wise enough to have already done a backup of the original OS for comparison.

hmscott wrote:
BigDRim, blowing away the original partitions and installing a "clean" Windows install from Microsoft Media is what I was thinking of. But yes, erasing or blowing away your only backup of the original OS Recovery data is "blowing it away".

If you have completely lost the ability to restore the original Asus OS Build, then you have blown away the original recovery capability.

If asked, no one would say throwing away or blowing away the original installation Media that came with their laptop is a good idea, but for some reason many give no thought to erasing the original boot disk and putting on their own install of Windows.

It is an amazing gap in thinking that happens more often than you think. We get people here all the time looking for a way to get their original OS installation back, and we have to tell them there is no way to get it back except by RMA'ing back to Asus, or returning to the seller if it they are still in the return period of their purchase.

If you have a working Asus Backtracker Flash recovery drive, or have kept your original Asus OS HDD on the shelf as a backup, the resulting OS recovery restore to a new SSD/HDD can be safely altered as you see fit.

I delete the recovery partition and associated partition, and the secondary partition on the boot drive, and merge all the free space into the C partition.

But, I have 2 Asus Backtracker recovery USB flash drives that I never reuse for anything else, they are taped into the original box, so I am safe to play with the restored OS partitions.

Always make sure you have a backup.

Never assume you are smarter than the Engineers that built and configured the hardware / OS for your laptop, at best you can do as well, unlikely you will do better than they have with the OS install.

Noone has ever reported their Windows install is faster or better than the original Asus OS install, benchmarks show the Asus Build generates as fast or faster results.

Uninstalling Asus Applications after restoring the original OS takes 5 minutes, a far shorter time to completion than doing a from scratch install from Microsoft media.

You have 1 laptop to install the OS, Asus has 100k's, millions over the years, they have far more experience at doing it right, and have a process in place to make sure it works correctly. And even they make mistakes.

If you bought the laptop to play with doing OS installs instead of gaming, ignore what I am saying and have fun building OS's on your ROG laptop.

If you are doing OS imaging as your focus on an ROG laptop, you are wise enough to have already done a backup of the original OS for comparison.

Oh no i "only" deleted the recovery partition, I kept the OS as I bought it.
And thanks for all these advices.

senju wrote:
This sucks. I get the recovery disc so that i dont have to worry about the USB getting corrupt and not wastig one good USB just for recovery which i might never need. Wil try to create a backup in USB and then move that to a DVD and see if that works.This also makes me not want to buy anymore Asus laptops.

senju,

I don't know how to break this news to you, but recovery disks are a thing of the past. Hardly any vendors are including them with new laptops and PCs now days. Restore Disks are pretty much extinct and have been for a few years.