Asus K50AB Hardware User Manual page 63

Windows Vista Software Recovery (Cont.)
Using DVD (on selected models)
Creating the Recovery DVD:
1. Double-click the AI Recovery Burner icon on the Window desktop.
2. Insert a blank writable DVD into the optical
drive and click Start to start creating the
Recovery DVD.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete
creating the recovery DVD.
Prepare three blank writable DVDs to create the Recovery DVD.
IMPORTANT! Remove the optional secondary hard disk drive before performing
system recovery on your notebook PC. According to Microsoft, you may lose
important data because of setting up Windows Vista on the wrong disk drive
or formatting the incorrect drive partition. Link to http://support.microsoft.com/
kb/937251/en-us for more details.
Using the Recovery DVD:
1. Insert the Recovery DVD into the optical drive (Notebook PC needs to be powered ON).
2. Restart the Notebook PC and press <Esc> on bootup and select the optical drive (may be labeled
as "CD/DVD") using the down cursor and press <Enter> to boot from the Recovery DVD.
3. Select a partition option and click Next. Partition options:
Recover Windows to first partition only.
This option will delete only the first partition, allowing you to keep other partitions, and create a
new system partition as drive "C".
Recover Windows to entire HD.
This option will delete all partitions from your hard disk drive and create a new system partition as
drive "C".
Recover Windows to entire HD with 2 partition.
This option will delete all partitions from your hard drive and create two new partitions "C" (60%)
and "D" (40%).
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery process.
WARNING: Do not remove the Recovery disc (unless instructed to do so) during the
recovery process or else your partitions will be unusable.
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