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    Asus EEE No CD drive - How to recover?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by m394byt3, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. m394byt3

    m394byt3 Notebook Evangelist

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    Normally you get a Asus recovery CD to recover your notebook.

    How do I recover my netbook since it has no CD drive?

    Ive heard you can use external CDROM and the recovery CD OR
    press F9 or something. Is there a hidden partition where the "recovery disk" is and which it boots from?

    Note: I have the Asus Netbook EEE 1001 version. Windows XP.
     
    m394byt3, Feb 25, 2010
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    Remotefield Notebook Enthusiast

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    i dont have an Eee but depending on the BIOS you can set the boot priority to USB as the first and recover using a USB drive loaded with windows xp

    this is, of course, granted you can put a copy on a drive

    since you have the key to xp on the bottom of your system(assumption) you could DL a copy from a torrent to do just that
     
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  3. m394byt3

    m394byt3 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for the reply. Maybe someone else has a different answer?
    What is the quickest and easiest way to do it, to recover my Netbook?
     
    m394byt3, Feb 25, 2010
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    Rapidly press f9 the moment you boot your computer. It will run the hidden partition and recovers within 10-15 minutes to it's factory state.
    At least this was how it was done on the 1000he
     
    impruv, Feb 25, 2010
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