Recovery disc and Driver disc

Hi. I'm still waiting for my G50Vt-X3. On 15/5, it will leave USA for Vietnam . Although it's brand new (bought by my cousin in late February), it has been RMAed (to replace the DOA Blu-ray drive). Now, when I was surfing web, my cousin suddenly sent me instant message. He said that my G50 has problem again. Oh, how can I describe how my face look like at that time.
It denied to boot to windows. He put the recovery disc 1 in, everything went well. But when it asked for the second one, it said that some file on the recovery disc 2 is corrupted. He turned it off manually, and it reboot to windows well. He put the recovery disc 2 in the drive again, nothing happen. He search the disc, but found nothing could be used. But then, he found out a driver disc and put it in. Now, he's installing the driver something without hiccups. He will test stability soon, but since I have heard that the second recovery disc included driver and everything, why ASUS put in another driver disc?
I'm really worried about my G50Vt. Even though my cousin only play Starcraft and do some office stuff on it (with my request to test it), it prove to contain a lot of problems. Anyone have an idea why the windows suddenly dead, and the spare driver disc?
Thanks a lot.

 

Tell your cousin to follow these instructions:

You should reformat your laptop using the hidden partition in ASUS laptop that reformats everything back to factory settings as if it was brand new bought (all softwares, drivers, etc.. preinstalled).
You do this by pressing F9 during bootup, then a black screen pops up, select "setup Windows EMS enabled" from there, choose whatever partitions you wanna restore into and just hit next (factory settings are split into 2 partitions if you want that option although I prefer the whole hard drive). Then the recovery will start. (It says something about ASUS recovery discs but it ignore it and press next.) Also, make sure you don't have anything in your optical drive.

I was skeptical at first using this method because I thought my discs would actually recover everything but I was wrong. I was missing a bunch of drivers such as USB 2.0 and wifi even though I inserted my driver CD when prompt and made sure I installed everything on the CD. Btw, it never prompted me to insert recovery disc #2 as well. When you use recovery discs, it won't be the same as what it's suppose to be when it's brand new. On the other hand, recovery from the hidden partition is the best way to go because it's like buying a new computer. Let me know how it goes

 

Thanks for your help. But I don't think I will tell my cousin do this. He's really busy and he spent 2 hours recover my G50Vt by disc. I will recover it again to have it brand new when it arrive at my hand.

 

If using the recovery discs its better to run the first disc and restart it when it prompts for the second. On the restart go ahead and access the bios and switch your hard drive back to the first boot device. When it starts up it will do so as a standard vista installation. Once you have windows up go ahead and put the driver/utility disk in and install all of the drivers and only the utilities that you use. This will insure you get all the drivers installed properly and save you the time required to delete the bloatware.

 

It's between 30 mins to an hour using this method because it doesn't have to read the optical drive.

 

I just bought my g50vt-x5 from best buy today, and having some similar issues. I tried to install just the first recovery disc, and that worked fine, but I'm not sure how to go about installing the software from the disc after that point? Some things, like the expressgate and stuff would be nice.

While I'm at it, what programs do all of you find useful that they included, and which ones should I uninstall immediately?

 

http://pclove.us/?cat=26
I think this will help you.

 

Oh wow am I embarassed. I forgot that I had an entire other disc with all the software on it...

In that case, what the heck is the 2nd recovery disc for anyway?

 

NICE, last part has all the important crap lol. Im trying to find a way to backup the recovery partition, mbr and whatever else i need to another drive without doing a full image (i only have a 250 at the moment stock is a 320 ofcourse).

But yeah good link dude.