Note the following text: Go to the Windows Store to reinstall Windows 8.1 and your apps. > OPTION ONE Update and recovery > Recovery > click on the Get started button under the Refresh your PC without affecting your files section. Note: How to fix the error message: ' Could not find the recovery environment', if the ID for the recovery partition type is incorrectly set to OEM or Primary. Note: If you have an ASUS computer, then you should use the Asus Backtracker utility.

PS: If this is in the wrong category, I'm sorry, I couldn't find one related to recovery so I decided to place it in here Does anyone have an idea on what I could do to make the recovery partition work again? If any system information is needed, I'll be happy to provide. However the Windows 8 recovery environment just isn't able to find it. So, these are the contents of the Recovery partition:Īnd these are the contents of the Restore partition:Īs you can see outlined in red, it does contain an install.wim file, so I know the recovery data is there. Now I assume the Recovery partition is the one Windows 8 boots into, and the Restore partition is the one created by ASUS. I saw it found both a 'Recovery' partition and a 'Restore' partition. I started ASUS and these are the partitions it found:

So, I tried to see if EaseUs Partition manager showed the recovery partition. Then I selected 'Update and recovery' from the left, and then went to Recovery, where I pressed the button to remove everything and reinstall windows. Then, I read somewhere I could do the same from inside Windows 8, so I tried that as well by going to the charms bar, then Settings and then 'Change PC settings'. This PC never used to have a recovery CD, just a recovery partition. But now it asks for a CD, which I don't have. This is where it was supposed to give me the option to restore whole drive or just install windows to the primary partition.

Now I know my PC has an ASUS recovery partition, which reïnstalls the pc with all the tools, drivers etc, since I've used it before.īut now when I restart the computer and press F9 and reset, it doesn't work. Alright, so my ASUS laptop has been getting a little slow lately, so I decided to reinstall.

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