Asus preload wizard loop (Virus?Bug?)

[Sunnt]

Hello guys!

Last night I closed my laptop to sleep as usual, and today I woke up to a asus preload wizard screen, which of course I canceled, because I didn't wanna loose my data. (Last backup is 3 month, and I have the most important stuff but still).

I've had that once before, and when I just runned windows normaly it went away. This time it didn't work.
Things I tried :

- Safe mode
- Start with the last know good configuration in BIOS

None of them works and always resend me to asus reload, which when canceled sens me to a choice of either windows repair startup which I don't wanna run, or to run windows as usually which fails and sends me to asus load again.

How can I save my data and get rid of this problem?

Thank you very much !

 

[GokAy]

You can attach the harddisk to another PC to get the data off. Or try to use a Linux Live distro if you also have an external drive.
Just make sure you don't install Linux and select something like "try" so it loads into memory only.

 

[Sunnt]

Is there any other way? Attaching the disk to another pc seems like a lot of work in the case of a laptop :/

 

[GokAy]

Not really, can you not unscrew few screws? No need to take everything apart, there should be a hatch under the laptop for harddisk, and 4-6 screws that hold it in place

 

[gregrocker]

You do not need to move the hard drive to rescue your data as this can be done from a boot disk as shown in Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Start.

Those steps will also try everything possible to start Win7 leading up to if necessary doing Factory Recovery or the vastly superior Clean Reinstall Windows 7