Asus N52D [13/26] Recovering your notebook pc

Notebook PC User Manual

Recovering Your Notebook PC

Using Recovery Partition

The Recovery Partition quickly restores your Notebook PC’s software

to its original working state. Before using the Recovery Partition, copy

your data ﬁles (such as Outlook PST ﬁles) to a USB storage device or

to a network drive and make note of any customized conﬁguration

settings (such as network settings).

About the Recovery Partition

The Recovery Partition is a reserved space on your hard disk drive

used to restore the operating system, drivers, and utilities installed

on your Notebook PC at the factory.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT delete the partition named RECOVERY.

The Recovery Partition is created at the factory and cannot be

restored if deleted. Take

your Notebook PC to an

authorized ASUS service

center if you have problems

with the recovery process.

Using the Recovery Partition:

1. Press [F9] during bootup

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 deletes only the ﬁrst partition and allows you to

keep other partitions, and to create a new system partition as

drive “C”.

Recover Windows to entire HD.

This option deletes all partitions from your hard disk drive and

creates a new system partition as drive “C”.