Asus K53E-Recovery Discs

[Garvak]

(Updated info in final posts, please view before commenting)

Hello everyone, I am new and came here hoping for a solution. Basically, this person

http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-debugging/196356-asus-laptop-k53e-crashed-recovery-disk-not-working.html

has the exact same issue as me. Except about the laptop crashing a month ago. It did crash four months ago (which WAS my fault), yet this time I really have no idea what occurred.

I have followed this guide (replacing the P1 concept with the previous link's P2 Boot option though). Complete Walk-through For Doing A Clean Windows 7 Install

Please assist and regards.

 

[Garvak]

Well, then. I just restarted my computer and the ASUS recovery seems to be working. It just entered the "AI recovery restore"and is currently at zero progression. More to come. If everything turns up fine, I will just mark this thread as solved.

I was encountered with error 1028. I googled it, nothing related came up.

 

[writhziden]

Did you create recovery DVDs when you bought the computer?

 

[theog]

Asus know they have a problem with the Recovery Partition & A1 Recovery app.

This issue frustrated me for quite some, so I had to post this since I couldn't find the solution anywhere else. I also made a tutorial on youtube
ASUS AI Recovery burner fix: Partition does not exist - YouTube
because I tired looking there too for answers.

 

[Garvak]

Did you create recovery DVDs when you bought the computer?

Yes, Best Buy/Geek Squad gave me a set of four recovery discs.



"Asus know they have a problem with the Recovery Partition & A1 Recovery app.

Quote: Originally Posted by Nlite10dnoob
'This issue frustrated me for quite some, so I had to post this since I couldn't find the solution anywhere else. I also made a tutorial on youtube
ASUS AI Recovery burner fix: Partition does not exist - YouTube
because I tired looking there too for answers.'"

Thanks for that link, I will check it out.

 

[Garvak]

Well, I managed to get through the recovery. It got to 100% after switching out the disks, then said the recovery process finished. It restarted, and went back to the original screen:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.
What? I thought I wiped and re installed everything...someone please help and explain.

Alright, so I went through the same process as I have done before (in my first explanation and the second link) and was confronted once again with the prompt: AI RECOVERY-Are you ready to restore this image yes/no.

I select yes.

AI RECOVERY-Restoring will overwrite your hard drive. Do you want to continue? Ok/cancel

I select OK

AI Recovery Restore begins once more. The problem is, as described in the "complete walkthrough" thread supplied, it says I am supposed to be prompted with "ASUS Preload Wizard", not this "AI Recovery Restore", of which this is my second attempt.


I restarted the process. This time, during the startup of the computer I repeatedly tapped Esc. then selected my P2 HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT34N and pressed enter. This was followed up by the usual "Windows is loading files..." progress bar. Afterwards, it sat at the "Starting Windows" screen for eight minutes. It loads a basic ASUS wallpaper and cursor. I am then confronted with the prompt: AI RECOVERY-Are you ready to restore this image yes/no?
I select yes.
AI RECOVERY:Restoring it will overwrite your hard drive. Do you want to continue? Ok/cancel
I select ok.
The AI Recovery Restore begins-This DVD will help you recover hidden partition. Check the AC adapter connection and do not interrupt the restoration process. Message: <blank>
As of now, it has been sitting with zero progress.

 

[Garvak]

ASUS Laptop K53E and Recovery Currently another forum on the topic. Supplied so any wishing to assist me can see any ideas attempted/ more errors encountered.

 

[writhziden]

ASUS Laptop K53E and Recovery Currently another forum on the topic. Supplied so any wishing to assist me can see any ideas attempted/ more errors encountered.

Perhaps you should contact ASUS and see what they suggest. It seems to be a known problem with your model. If nothing else, they may send you a new set of recovery discs that will work.

 

[Garvak]

I am going to contact ASUS later tomorrow if the final things on my list do not work. But thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

 

[crasher59]

hi i have exactly the same computer with exactly the same problem did you manage to sort it out with my problem i created 2 lots of 5 disc recoverys discs just to be safe and i decided to format the hard drive as i was having problems with frequent freeze ups etc so wanted to see if it will help so after formating the whole hard drive i placed disc 1 of 5 in the drive started up and entered ai recovery did all that you said earlier and then after about 1 hour and 20 to 25 minutes in its still at 0% and comes up with

failed to restore disk from asus recovery dvd running the restore process again may fix the problem
elapsed time 01:24:03
error code is :772

ive re ran this 6 times now to no avail

i placed my windows 8 developer disc into the drive to see what the hard drive is doing it has put on the partition named recovery of 25gb with 8gb of free space
ive only had this laptop for 16 days and will be taking it back to comet hopefully for an exchange /upgrade would appreciate any help thx

 

[kazumkry]

I found this thread while I was doing research on the K53E recovery disk. I am having almost the same problem as crasher59. My hard drive failed a few weeks ago and I am trying to reinstall everything from the recovery disk that I made when I got the computer back in Jan. this year. It will go all the way to disk 6 (which is the last disk in the recovery set) and when it hits 44% complete it just stops. I call the Tech support for Asus and the person told me I needed the boot partition recovery disk. Does anyone one know if this is true or not? If i needed a boot partition recovery disk why would my recovery disk install everything up to disk 6?

 

[writhziden]

That doesn't seem right. When you created the recovery discs, did the software say anything about a boot partition recovery disc?

Also, since you got through nearly all six discs, I wonder if your recovery partition was created. Have you tried the steps to recover using the recovery partition? Press F9 when the system first turns on and shows the ASUS logo. You may have to tap it three or four times for it to register. See if You can get into the recovery options off the recovery partition.

 

[kazumkry]

I know for a fact that the recovery partition is there only because I installed 7 professional on the laptop which brought up the 3 partitions that Asus original had. (By the way professional crashed on me after windows update happened was not thrilled). As for the F9 key does not work. The only ones that I can get to sork are the esc, F2, and F8. A friend of mine said that if I put the home premuim image on than use thde recovery disk it should work? Does that sound right?

 

[writhziden]

Not sure what you mean by "put the [Home Premium] image on" so it is difficult to know if that would work. I would say that any ideas are worth trying out, though. Sounds like you are not getting good support from ASUS at the moment, so all options are good options. Might be worth calling ASUS again at some point, as well. Sometimes different tech support people will give different advice and one will provide a solution where another did not.

 

[kazumkry]

The computer came installed with 7 home premium on it. I have two other laptops at home which also contain 7 home premium. I tried professional with the legit product key and it crashed, so I was thinking if I took an ISO image of one of the other laptops 7 home premiumOS and installed it on the ASUS laptop register it with its product key and then try and pull the information off the recovery discs ( so that I don't have to try and search for the drivers again) that it might work. Or at least I am hoping it will work correctly this time.

 

[budhwanigautam]

Forget it asus same problem with me also, cannot re install . I have sony vaio recovery dvd can i install that in my asus laptop.

 

[writhziden]

A VAIO recovery DVD cannot be used for any system other than the system it was designed for. It will not usually work even on another VAIO laptop that is the same model.

 

[budhwanigautam]

Thanks mate ..... these ASUS laptops not worth. I can not install Windows 7 sp1 and i dont have recovery dvd that i made when i bought the laptop. now how to reinstall . pls guide . Thanks

 

[writhziden]

See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164 if you are interested in doing a fresh install without the ASUS bloatware added.

 

[budhwanigautam]

Thanks sir...... i will check and do it. Any problem i will trouble you again.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.