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    I have my daughter's laptop here.

    Asus
    Model N616
    MB Ver N61JV
    N61JV-JX378V

    Windows 7 Home Premium

    They are sick of it running like a dead dog and want to restore it to bought factory/shop sale.

    They have 8 discs in the bag.
    Laptop Recovery Discs 1-4 (these are one's they must have burnt when they got it)
    Asus Back-up Disc 1-4 (these are one's they must have burnt when they got it)

    Can someone please explain the process in using these discs to wipe and reformat everything to how it was.

    The Windows key is printed on a label attached to the laptop.

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    Place disk 1 in the drive and re-boot. (You may need to tell the machine to boot from DVD first)

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    Quote Originally Posted by lsemmens View Post
    Place disk 1 in the drive and re-boot. (You may need to tell the machine to boot from DVD first)
    Disk 1 of recovery, or disk 1 of Asus?

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    Quote Originally Posted by viewer View Post
    Disk 1 of recovery, or disk 1 of Asus?
    If the 4 disks labeled "ASUS Backup" were created with the "ASUS Backtracker" tool, as advised by ASUS, then use this package.


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    Just download an untouched version of windows and use your key. That way you wont have the Asus bloatware installed. Any drivers you may need are on the asus website

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoe View Post
    Just download an untouched version of windows and use your key. That way you wont have the Asus bloatware installed. Any drivers you may need are on the asus website
    I do that with all Toshiba laptops even when they have a recovery partition, to much extra crap they add
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by viewer View Post
    I have my daughter's laptop here.
    They are sick of it running like a dead dog and want to restore it to bought factory/shop sale.
    One of the biggest computer annoyances is when your machine gets slow over time. We have to face the fact that as time goes on, our computers will get slow. It's a natural progression. The thing is, when you first get a new computer and boot it up it works lightning fast. That's because it doesn't have anything on it.

    Regardless of whether you have a PC or Mac, over time as you download files, install software, and surf the Internet, your computer gets bloated with files that hog system resources. In theory, if you did a clean install and never updated any of your software, everything would run as fast in year four as it did on day one. But that's not exactly a feasible—or secure—way to use your computer.

    Not to forget, if you have a spinning hard drive, once they get older they simply start to slow down as they reach the end of life.

    You also can't ignore the fact that for PC users if their machine got infected with malware and viruses this can also contribute to a computer slowing down.

    A huge misconception with PC users is that you need to load up on antivirus software to keep your computer fast. This is simply a myth.

    Hence first thing of all things one should do to speed up the computer is
    1. Regularly clear your cache, internet browsing history, and temporary Internet files.
    2. Empty the trash can.
    3. Check which programs are running at start up and also see what background services you are having load after a set amount of time.


    Personally never would re-install the OS (re-formatting the disk drive included) in order to speed up the computer, unless I know the computer got infected with malware / virus.

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    Thanks all.

    I have used Malwarebytes Pro on it, and other utilities as described, and it has many things installed, trashed all over the place.

    I am going to just tidy up the data they need, and then transfer it all off onto a portable drive, and redo it all again.

    I believe the disks she gave me are made up from the "ASUS Backtracker" tool, as when I stick it in my drive, it is named "ASRDVD-1". Does this sound right? The other 4 are the same, so perhaps she just did double sets?

    I found the manual online, and it says...
    Using the Recovery Partition:
    1. Press [F9] during bootup.
    2. Press [Enter] to select Windows Setup [EMS Enabled].
    3. Select the language you want to recover and click Next.
    4. Read the ASUS Preload Wizard messages and click Next.
    5. 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”.
    A-14 Notebook PC User Manual
    Recover Windows to entire HD with two partitions.
    This option deletes all partitions from your hard drive and creates two
    new partitions “C” (60%) and “D” (40%).
    6. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery
    process.


    I had a quick look in the laptop, via "my computer" and they have a C and an L drive. Funny enough, it shows no Recovery partition, like my pc has? C and an L drive just seemed partitioned.

    I would prefer to redo it using either the disks I have, or via the recovery process above, which would be the recommendation?

    I do not have a fresh os disk, and prefer to use what we have, so that all is done from the pc

    Thanks again.

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    Disk 1 of recovery. All of the above infor from JW etc, is valid, but sometimes it is just quicker, and easier, to blow it all away and start again. As hoe has suggested, if you don't want the "extras" supplied with the "new" computer, a bare windoze disk works great. The downside to that is that sometimes there are machine specific drivers (not so much these days) that may need to be found, and installed, after you've loaded windoze.

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    Thank you everyone for helping me.

    I ended up using the F9 option, and one drive only.

    Biggest/longest job after recovery was downloading all the windows updates, getting the antivirus on and updating, etc.

    Tidying up the mess and putting everything into neat folders ready for them to grab back what they want to put on it later was a pain in the proverbial. Multiple duplicate files splattered everywhere etc, and something that reminds me to spend more personal time on my own machine too!

    Obviously a few more programs to put on fresh for them, eg itunes,kodi, etc.

    But hey, another process navigated safely.

    Thank you.

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