We only get a recovery partition on the C drive, and we can use F9 to refresh / restore as long as the partitions (there are support partitions too) are still there on the drive. MHaensel, gone are the days we can order a set of DVD's, or any other media from Asus, to recover from a lost OS. What utility will I need, and how big of a flash drive?Īlternatively, are factory restore DVDs available/included? I understand we can use an Asus utility to copy the restore partition from the factory hard drive to a flash drive for reinstalls. I'll be buying a G751 soon and installing an SSD I already have. Use the Asus build, create an Asus Backtracker USB 3.0 16GB flash drive, and spend 5 minutes after restoring uninstalling the Asus tools you don't want.Įven after watching dozens of people with your idea end up burned by it, it is still sad to see another potential failure on the cusp of disaster. You won't believe it until it bites you, so why let it bite you? Why go through all the work of building it yourself when the team at Asus that has used all their resources at hand to build and QA have already done it for you.Īsus engineers have gone through many hours of configuration and testing, repeating it again and again, until many more than just 1 person is happy with it.Īll done by engineers expert in their fields - with many years of experience - combined it is many times your experience.įrom that point of view it seems naive and silly to assume you can do it yourself, and it is

They will make mistakes, and won't have the patience to do it right, or multiple times to get it right after they figure out what they messed up. It takes a lot longer than an hour to do it the first time, especially for the first timer. If you install it yourself, you might miss something in the install - sequence of install and after install tuning / settings will be missing or different. They can help you from that same shared base. The Asus build / recovery gives you a reference point that is the same as Asus has back in support. WhiteEyeDoll, because you don't end up with the same thing

Why would you need any cloning or recovery utilities? Manual non-bloated installation takes like an hour (drivers and software included).

Msi burn recovery factory partition