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    G50V Recovery Disks

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by RdWing, Aug 10, 2008.

  1. RdWing

    RdWing Notebook Consultant

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    I have 2 recovery disks (DVD) with my G50V-A1. What does each do?
    I have recovered from Disk 1 successfully before but it has never asked me for #2. What is it? (It -is- bootable)
     
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    wywern209 NBR Dark Knight

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    well, its proabaly backuup disc or for drivers and utilities or something.
     
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  3. RdWing

    RdWing Notebook Consultant

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    It isn't, there is a seperate disk for the driver.
    They are numbered disk #1 and #2, both are bootable into Vista installations...perhaps one is a vista restore and the other is a vista install? Don't have time to play with it now but I was just wondering if anybody happened to know.
     
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    AFAIK for Windows XP systems, there are 2 recovery CDs and 1 driver CD. All needed during recovery. Driver CD can be skipped and you get a clean install.

    For Vista, there is 1 recovery DVD and 1 driver CD. Same story as above.

    So the driver CD is not really needed, because you can download stuff from the internet; but the recovery process still asks for it.

    So I don't know what your other disk is for. Maybe it's some software disk like ASUS DVD, Nero?
     
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  5. RdWing

    RdWing Notebook Consultant

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    It's a vista install disk of some sort, Uh, I guess I'll re-recover my computer and find out what it is for you guys.
     
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    It'd be great if it actually were a clean Vista disk, but I doubt it, ASUS has never included clean OS disks with their systems.
     
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    Hmm....even more puzzled now.
    I booted the computer off the the recovery disk 2, it went into the standard recovery screen and before it started it asked for Disk 1. It never asked about #2, so right now all I can say is that I have -no idea whatsover-.
     
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    I dont know myself a clean install can be done with disk 1 it will install no software or drivers. It asked me for the drivers disk in the recovery but it did not install anything. After I got into windows I hadto install all the software & drivers off the drivers disk. I was thinking maybe its a backup for disk 1 but I guess not.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Aug 10, 2008
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