Blue Screen of Death

[ydcl]

Hi all, my 1st post here,

Description: I run a PC with Windows 7 Home Edition (Legit!) and Ubuntu OS 10.04.

I came home the other day and turned on my computer and chose win 7, then all of a sudden I got a BSOD for less than 1 second and the pc goes into a restart mode. I knew I was in trouble. I tried the Safe Mode but it NOT go in, same result. I tried log in to last successful log in but same result. I tried going into repair pc but nothing. I tried restore to earlier time but it told me to "choose an OS and restart", but I can't do that or don't know how. It just keeps says that...

I then got a WIN 7 Ultimate disk from a friend and installed the win 7 but my win 7 code on the side of my pc does not work for that and it would not let me go into my other stuff now. I had to force shutdown and installed another copy of Ubuntu.

Now I had 3 Ubuntu OS and 2 Copy's of Win 7... One my Home Edition which I want and the other win 7 ultimate. I am in serious trouble here.

I just want to bring everything back to factory settings.

Could someone please give me some advice?
Thanks for you time,
Yan

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello ydcl, welcome to Seven Forums!


The ASUS Factory Recovery instructions are below but you may want to have a look at this tutorial at the link below first and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

Clean Install : Factory COA Activation Key


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ASUS Recovery Partition

Using the Recovery Partition:
1. Press [F9] during bootup (requires a Recovery Partition)
2. Press [Enter] to select Windows Setup [EMS Enabled]
3. Read the “ASUS Preload Wizard” screen and click Next.
4. 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%).
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the recovery process.

 

[theog]

We always assume you have made your Recovery Disks using the OEM manufacturer's app the first day you had your new PC.
& made the Startup Repair CD.

Before you start make your Recovery disk.
Disable Boot Booster in BIOS setup before you perform system recovery from USB flash disk, external optical drive or hidden partition.

1. Press <F9> during bootup.
Ensure to press <F9> only once during bootup.
2. Select the language you use and click to continue.
3. Repeat the step 1—2 in the previous section.
4. Connect a USB storage device to your Eee PC and click Backup in the Recovery System dialog box to start the recovery files backup.
The size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 16GB.
Memory cards are not supported for this function.
A dialog box appears as a reminder if you have not connected the USB storage device for system recovery backup to your Eee PC.
5. Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to your Eee PC and click Continue.
6. All the data on the selected USB storage device will be cleared. Click Continue to start the backup or click Back to backup your important data.
You will lose all your data on the selected USB storage device. Ensure to back up your important data beforehand
7. The system backup starts and click OK when done.

Note as you install Linux the Recovery Partition may be unusable.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Some additional information to study / consider.

After you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to external media and want to start fresh with a clean installation or clean install with an upgrade version of Windows 7 have a look through the information below and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

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It may be a help to over-write the HDD Master Boot Record (MBR) before you start any other procedure using the diskpart clean command, rather than the clean all; it takes just seconds to complete so you will have "unallocated" space to use either the Windows installer to create and format the partition(s) or use diskpart to do that, however you choose.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
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If you want to completely wipe, over-write the entire Hard Disk Drive of any possible malware infection and / or to get the best possible space to do the install to or just for security purposes, have a look at these tutorials.

Secure Erase / Wipe : Definition and Methods

Additional Secure Erase / Wipe Information​

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[ydcl]

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We always assume you have made your Recovery Disks using the OEM manufacturer's app the first day you had your new PC.
& made the Startup Repair CD.

Before you start make your Recovery disk.
Disable Boot Booster in BIOS setup before you perform system recovery from USB flash disk, external optical drive or hidden partition.

1. Press <F9> during bootup.
Ensure to press <F9> only once during bootup.
2. Select the language you use and click to continue.
3. Repeat the step 1—2 in the previous section.
4. Connect a USB storage device to your Eee PC and click Backup in the Recovery System dialog box to start the recovery files backup.
The size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 16GB.
Memory cards are not supported for this function.
A dialog box appears as a reminder if you have not connected the USB storage device for system recovery backup to your Eee PC.
5. Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to your Eee PC and click Continue.
6. All the data on the selected USB storage device will be cleared. Click Continue to start the backup or click Back to backup your important data.
You will lose all your data on the selected USB storage device. Ensure to back up your important data beforehand
7. The system backup starts and click OK when done.

Note as you install Linux the Recovery Partition may be unusable.

I made only a Win 7 64 Repair CD. I tried that but I seem to get stuck or the computer freezes... I downloaded an ISO from on-line and put it in my 8gb usb drive but I don't seem to be able to boot from it. All the options available to me seems to freeze.

 

[theog]

A ISO of what?

If Windows 7 install, use method two of this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U

 

[ydcl]

A ISO of what?

If Windows 7 install, use method two of this tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2432-usb-windows-7-installation-key-drive-create.html?ltr=U

The ISO is of WIN 7 home edition 64 bit
Download Windows 7 ISO