Most of the netbooks does not come with CD/DVD drive. If the operating system corrupted, you need external CD/DVD drive to re install OS. By default Asus Eee PC 900ha comes with Windows XP Home Edition.If win xp corrupted in Asus Eee PC 900ha, you can use the system recovery option to rollback netbook back to fresh installation of Windows XP, utilities and drivers installed on your Eee PC 900ha at the factory.
Here I explain three ways to recover windows xp in Eee PC .
1. Using F9 Key
2. Using Eee PC Support DVD
3. Bootable USB Drive using BartPE
4. Bootable USB Drive using UltraISO
I. Using F9 Key
Recovery partition provides a comprehensive recovery solution that quickly restores your Eee PC's software to its original working state
1. To use recovery partition, backup your data files to USB or another drive and make note of any customized settings like network settings.
2. Disable Boot Booster. The boot booster item in BIOS setup helps eee pc to boot quicker. Boot booster must disabled before using system recovery. Start the eeepc and press F2 Key on bootup to show post screen. Again press F2 key to enter Bios setup. Disable Boot Booster which is available under 'Boot' tab. Press F10 to save configuration and reboot Eee PC 900ha.
3. Press F9 key during bootup (requires a Recovery Partition)
4. Click the check mark button to start the system recovery.
5. The system starts system recovery automatically and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery process.
It will take just 10 mins to 20 mins to restore the Windows XP. Files and Data in Drive C: will be lost during this restore. So take backup of your important files before doing recovery.
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II. Using Eee PC support DVD
If recovery partition corrupted on hard disk, you can't recover win xp. In this situation you need Eee PC support DVD and external DVD drive. Boot your netbook from Eee PC support DVD and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery process.
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III. Using Bootable USB Drive
Alternate method also updated. Read that also and choose convenient method.
Here is another situation. You dont have external DVD drive. You failed to recover Windows XP using F9 key.
Solution : You can make bootable USB drive, transfer Eee PC ghost image from DVD to USB and apply that ghost image in your Eee PC.
Following steps explains you...
Requirements.
1. A PC with DVD Drive
2. Eee PC XP Support DVD (Which comes with your EEE PC. It have ghost images of XP)
3. Any Windows XP Installation CD / DVD (for windows xp source files)
4. Bartpe Builder (to create Bart's Preinstalled Environment - BartPE bootable live USB)
5. USD Stick (atleast 4 GB)
6. Novicorp WinToFlash (to write BartPE and ghost images to USB + to make USB bootable)
Insert Eee PC DVD in PC's DVD drive and copy 2 files.
1. Eee PC Ghost image file : \Recovery\EEEPC-ENG.GHO
2. Symantec Ghost EXE file (Ghost32.exe) : its located inside \WINPE.ISO . Open this ISO using 7-Zip and extract GHOST32.EXE .
Move both files (EEEPC-ENG.GHO, GHOST32.EXE) to a single folder in hard disk. (for example i moved them to D:\Backup\EeePC)
Now insert Windows XP Installation CD in DVD Drive. Download BartPE Builder and open the application.
In "Source: (path to windows installation files)" select Windows XP drive location. In "Custom:(include files and folders from this directory)" select (EEEPC-ENG.GHO, GHOST32.EXE) files folder. Note the BartPE output folder and click "Build" button.
BartPe files will store in outuput folder.
BartPE ready.Insert USB stick and Format USB drive. Now Download WinToFlash and open the application (WinToFlash.exe).
Click on "Task" tab and select "Transfer WinPE XP/2003 to flash" in "Task type".
In next window select "BartPE Output Folder" in "PE files source path". In next field select "USB Drive:" letter. Then click "Run" button.
BartPe files will be transfered to USB drive. After finish browse the USB drive and confirm EEEPC-ENG.GHO, GHOST.EXE copied into USB.
Now bootable live USB ready. Reboot your PC and press F2 key to enter BIOS setup. Set 1st Boot Device as USB Pen Drive. Press F10 to save settings and reboot. It should boot from the USB dirve now.
After successful boot you can get BartPE screen. Click on Go --> Run and open X:/GHOST32.EXE . In Ghost window choose Local --> Disk --> From Image and select X:/EEEPC-ENG.GHO to apply ghost image to your Hard Disk.
After finish restart your eee pc. Remove USB drive and boot from HDD.
Thats all now you got a fresh windows xp with factory settings. If you have any doubts feel free to ask in comments.
Update : 25-10-2009 - Alternate method
Here is an alternative method to recover windows xp on eee pc using USB.
Requirements.
1. A PC with DVD Drive
2. Eee PC XP Support DVD (Which comes with your EEE PC. It have ghost images of XP)
3. USD Stick (atleast 4 GB)
4. UltraISO Trial Version
Insert Asus Eee pc recovery dvd into DVD drive. Download and install ultraiso trial version from http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/download.htm . Open UltraISO as Administrator (right-click shortcut, "Run as Administrator").
Goto 'File' menu and click 'Open CD/DVD...' and choose recovery dvd drive letter and open. Recovery DVD contents will be loaded in Ultra ISO.
Plug USB drive and click on 'Bootable' menu and choose 'Write Disk Image' in Ultraiso.
In 'Disk Drive' select USB drive letter. In write method choose 'USB-HDD'. Then click 'Xpress Boot' --> 'Xpress Write'
In 20-30 minutes Recovery DVD files will be copied to USB. Now we need to edit two files in USB.
In UltraISO click 'File' --> 'Open' . Browse newly created USB drive and find 'WINPE.ISO' file and open that.
Right click on the file RCDGHOST.BAT and click 'Extract'. The file will be extracted and shown in local file browser window. Right click RCDGHOST.BAT file there and click on 'View'. The file open in Notepad.
Find
set DVD_ROM=%1
and replace with
set DVD_ROM=D:
Find
set HD_COUNT=%3
and replace with
set HD_COUNT=1
Find
:HDF9
set HD1_ID=%4
and replace with
:HDF9
set HD1_ID=0
[Important Note : This settings changes are only for Asus Eee PC 900ha. If you have any other model, go through the file and change appropriate values (:HDF9 may change). for example if you have 'EEEPCAH.GHO' in recovery folder, you need to change
:AHD
set HD1_ID=%4
to
:AHD
set HD1_ID=0
]
Then save the file. Right click on the file and click 'Add' . It will ask confirmation to overwrite the file in USB. Click 'Yes'.
Like this we need to edit 'WINPESHL.INI' which is located in /I386/SYSTEM32 . Browse to that folder in UltraISO. Rightclick and extract the file WINPESHL.INI . Right click and click view and open in notepad.
Find
AppPath = X:\EPCRECOVER.EXE
and replace with
AppPath = X:\RCDGHOST.BAT
Save the file, Right click and select 'Add' to overwrite in USB. Now in UltraISO click File --> Save .
Thats all. The modified files updated and Bootable Eee PC recovery USB is ready. Reboot your Eee PC netbook and press F2 key to enter BIOS setup. Set 1st Boot Device as USB Pen Drive. Press F10 to save settings and reboot. It should boot from the USB dirve now. Sit back and watch :).
After successful reboot, you can see Ghost restore window and that will make partitions on Eee PC. Then that will automatically create hidden Pre installation environment on E: and EEEPC-ENG.GHO copied to that drive. This may take 10 minutes.
After this process eee pc will be automatically restarted. Carefully remove USB drive. After reboot, Windows XP will be restored with factory settings.
If you have any trouble feel free to ask in comments.
Also read this post : Install Windows 7 on Asus Eee PC
Thanks Man, It was great. You saved me!
September 16, 2009 8:26 AMthanks a lot man
September 22, 2009 1:46 PMThank you so much for this information!, i managed to fix my friends EeePC with this, Thank you so much!
October 7, 2009 12:00 PMBest regards.
Tom.
i take this error mesage during the installation.. Usage error 684, The location of the file preservation metadata file conflicts with the destination of clone, use the -pfile switch to specify a different location for the preservation metadata file
October 15, 2009 5:37 AM@Anonymous
October 15, 2009 9:39 AMScreenshot
Did you followed this...? In Ghost window choose Local --> Disk --> From Image then choose X:/EEEPC-ENG.GHO to apply image.
I followed every single step, but nothing. After i do the last step i take the error, maby i must format all the hard disk before, now i have installed the ubuntu remix!
October 15, 2009 9:57 AM@Anonymous
October 15, 2009 10:21 AMI have no idea why you got that error :(. If you have windows xp or windows vista DVD, try this article to install them from USB.
This weekend I will write alternate method to Restore Windows XP on Asus eeepc. I hope that will work for you.
Thank you so much!!! :)
October 15, 2009 10:41 AMi've got the 12gb partitioned Eee PC, there are two .GHO files. What do i do, i install one but not everything goes on.
October 22, 2009 3:41 AMOliver
Updated the post with an alternate method. http://spemi.blogspot.com/2009/09/reinstall-recover-windows-xp-on-asus.html#alternate1 Try that. That may help you.
October 24, 2009 3:45 PMGreetings I attempted this fix. And was very close :( When asked "Restore system image to your harddisk. Do you want to continue?" I click "OK" and I get a message pop up stating "Can not find Recovery DVD"
October 24, 2009 7:10 PMThis is for the Asus eePC 1000HD.
Any other hints tips or tricks? (soo close)
Also I meant to make mention I did not have HDF: see below
October 24, 2009 7:14 PM@echo off
REM Source
set DVD_ROM=D:
REM Password
set IMG_PWD=%2
REM HDID
set HD_COUNT=1
If %HD_COUNT% LEQ 0 goto END
If %HD_COUNT% EQU 1 goto COUNT1
If %HD_COUNT% EQU 2 goto COUNT2
If %HD_COUNT% GEQ 3 goto END
GOTO END
:COUNT1
REM
IF exist %DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPC.GHO GOTO SD
IF exist %DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPCH.GHO GOTO HD
IF exist %DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPCAH.GHO GOTO AHD
GOTO END
:SD
set SD1_ID=%4
call X:\EEEPC_SD.BAT
GOTO END
:HD
set HD1_ID=0
call X:\EEEPC_HD.BAT
GOTO END
:AHD
set HD1_ID=0
call X:\EEEPC_AHD.BAT
GOTO END
:COUNT2
REM
IF not exist %DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPC1.GHO goto END
IF not exist %DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPC2.GHO goto END
GOTO 2SD
:2SD
set SD1_ID=%4
set SD2_ID=%5
call X:\EEEPC_2SD.BAT
GOTO END
:END
@Anonymous
October 24, 2009 8:57 PMYou edited RCDGHOST.BAT well. The settings are ok.
Did you edited 'WINPESHL.INI' which is located in '/I386/SYSTEM32' of 'WINPE.ISO' on USB?
Edit that file
Find
AppPath = X:\EPCRECOVER.EXE
and replace with
AppPath = X:\RCDGHOST.BAT
save the file and update to winpe.iso.
I hope this will work.
Yes. I did tat as well. Still no luck :(
October 25, 2009 6:12 AMThis "Can not find Recovery DVD" error comes because 'WINPESHL.INI' not edited successfully. Recovery USB runs X:\EPCRECOVER.EXE . thats why you got that error.
October 25, 2009 6:20 AMRecovery USB need to run X:\RCDGHOST.BAT at startup.
Open WINPE.ISO in USB, using ultraISO and double check /I386/SYSTEM32/WINPESHL.INI have entry like this
October 25, 2009 6:27 AMAppPath = X:\RCDGHOST.BAT
And Paste the contents of /I386/SYSTEM32/WINPESHL.INI . I will look.
Let me triple check.. Stay tuned..
October 25, 2009 6:29 AMOk - this is what I have found.
October 25, 2009 6:39 AM[launchApp]
AppPath=x:\RCDGHOST.BAT
When I double checked this - apparently I did not save it the WINPE.ISO file when I edited the .ini. Now that the file is located in the .iso and SAVED. I put it into the ee pc and would boot for a bit splash the restore screen and then go into a reboot cycle.
Stay Tuned.. will post another attempt shortly..
October 25, 2009 6:41 AMOK! I guess the coffee I just drank, assisted me with my plight. This is currently working! It automagically launched ghost and is currently restoring. My problem was that I made the changes "locally" put the files back into the WINPE.ISO but I forgot to save the WINPE.ISO. Doh!
October 25, 2009 7:01 AMHowever, Once it runs through its installation and it seems to come to a completion I am presented with "The system is not fully installed. Please run setup again."
I am not certain if that is an entirely different issue but I am back to square one :(
Yes It looks like a different issue :(.
October 25, 2009 7:20 AMTry for F9 Key Recovery Now.
If it fails let me know... I will try to give other solutions
Here is the latest. I rebooted again with the USB thumb drive and got a bit further. It asked for the English keyboard, time zone settings, now I am at the point where it asks for "What's your computer name?" The farthest yet! I accepted default and clicked next. Its been siting at that screen ever since since with the hour glass and I do not see any HDD light activity or hear any activity for that matter.
October 25, 2009 7:31 AMI will let this sit for a few more min and then try the F9 key.
Stay tuned...
UPDATE: Forced Power off of the net book. Rebooted with the attempt of F9. F( did nothing for me. Windows splash screen came up. And then proceeded to pick up where it left off regarding the What is your computer name"? Clicked "Next" like a typical setup and proceeded with setup. asked for a user name thus I provided. I entered all the typical information for a setup. Finally it seems this is underway and I cannot wait to get this off my desk and back into my friends hands.
October 25, 2009 7:47 AMThe system is now up and running. I thank you kindly for this How To article / Blog.
Good! Its happy to know you got it work. Thanks for your visit.
October 25, 2009 8:05 AMYep. it is. Just wondering why it took a few reboots. Personally I think this thing is a POS. :)
October 25, 2009 8:12 AMHi there. I'm trying this on an eeepc 1000HD using the UltraISO method and a 4GB USB key. After I've edited the RCDGHOST.BAT and WINPESHL.INI and add them back to the device, during the File > Save process I get the error 'There is not enough space on the disk. (112)'
November 3, 2009 4:51 AMAny ideas?
@Anonymous
November 3, 2009 6:07 AM4GB drive is enough. I think you have other files on USB.
Format your USB key.. and repeat the process.
Hi. Thanks for this post, it was helpful. I've been trying to recover my sons Eee PC, a 901 with 12GB SSD. I looked at options for getting XP onto a Flash drive, but it seemed rather fiddly. Then I remembered I had an SATA/IDE to USB adapter I use for extracting data from IDE and SATA disks. Like this one:
November 15, 2009 5:24 AMhttp://www.amazon.com/ByteRunner-USB-IDE-SATA-Adapter/dp/B000NZKO6C
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SATA-Adapter-Power-5-25-Drive/dp/B001A5SK56/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258291334&sr=8-1
Mine has a model number "ISU-111-PC". It was about £15 UK off eBay last year (2008). I took my Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110DBK) and hooked it up to the IDE port on the adapter, added power (the adapter also came with an IDE and SATA transformer and plugs) and hooked it up to the Eee PC.
On boot, I went into the BIOS and selected the DVD drive as first boot device (it just appeared there), then simply rebooted with the support/recovery DVD in the drive. The DVD booted with no problems and I had the system recovered within 20 minutes.
I can strongly recommend this method as a fairly cheap and easy way to build your own temporary external DVD drive for a Eee PC. Plus you get to use the adapter if you need to recover hard disk drives or copy files off a PVR disk.
I need help. I have done all things listed here for the UltraISO. It says booting from USB and all keeps acting like it is trying to do the restore. But it keeps restarting. Anyone had this problem? Please help.
November 16, 2009 7:32 AM@Billie
November 16, 2009 8:43 AMwhats your EEEPC model?
far out it worked !!!
November 20, 2009 3:39 AMLegend !!!
This work for my Asus S101
I used the below, not sure if it was correct but it got it going.
:SD
set SD1_ID=0
Hello, and thanks for this very helpful tutorial.
November 23, 2009 10:50 AMI have just used it to restore Windows XP to my Asus eee 901, after trying out a few Ubuntu distros.
However, I had to use different parameters.
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For a start, my Asus eee 901 support DVD (v1.0) contains about 4.5GB of data. I could not fit this on a 4GB flash device, so I used an 8GB one instead. You can delete that 900MB+ "Software" folder and fit the important stuff onto a 4GB card.
Presumeably because I had the two drives in formats not recognised by Windows, the USB device was assigned the letter C. The second time I did this, when the 901 had the two drives in NTFS format, the USB device was assigned the letter E.
Rather than hardcoding the appropriate values into RCDGHOST.BAT, I complicated the process described in this blog by adding an extra bat file that simulates RCDRECOVER.EXE to a small extent.
Here are the steps:
1. Use UltraISO to copy the DVD image to the flash device, as described above.
2. Use UltraISO to open winpe.iso
3. Don't touch RCDGHOST.BAT.
4. Extract I386\SYSTEM32\WINPESHL.INI
5. Open the extracted WINPESHL.INI and change X:\EPCRECOVER.EXE to X:\RCDRECOVER.BAT
6. Save this file, then use UltraISO to add it back into the ISO file, overwriting the old one.
7. Create the file RCDRECOVER.BAT.
8. Copy'n'paste the following into RCDRECOVER.BAT:
@echo off
for %%d in (H G F E D C) do if exist %%d:\ X:\RCDGHOST.BAT %%d "" 2 0 1
echo USB drive letter was not determined.
pause
9. Save RCDRECOVER.BAT and use UltraISO to add it to the root directory of winpe.iso
10. Use UltraISO to save the iso file to the flash device (also described above).
11. Eject the USB device, and boot from it on 901. On mine, it's the Esc key that lets you choose the boot device.
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For those who care:
This simply passes the parameters that the original RCDGHOST.BAT was expecting.
%%d is the drive letter the USB stick was assigned.
"" is a password that isn't used for this installation.
2 is the hard drive count
0 is the drive id of the first SD drive of the 901
1 is the drive id of the second SD drive of the 901
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!
December 3, 2009 8:57 AMIt worked perfectly.
For the 901 tuto,
December 5, 2009 4:10 PMThank you, thank you, thank you,
Tx For the toturial
December 6, 2009 10:13 PMI have a 901 and the first tuto made the eee go in a reboot circle. But the 901 tuto helped with that, it starts to install and then it fails at the resolution and gives me a dos prompt window with this text:
x:\i386\system32 factory -winpe
x:\i386\system32
If I try to restart the factory -winpe it fails again
Any suggestions?
/Jolkro
Tx for the totu.
December 7, 2009 12:07 AMI own a 901 and the first totu got it to reboot in a loop, but when I used the 901 totu I got to factory -winpe and then it just gives me a dos prompt.
why wont it go on?
I have tried to do and partion directly from ghost32, but that wont work either.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Tx
/Jolkro
Hello Jolkro,
December 12, 2009 6:18 PMThe tutorial for the 901 is using version 1.0 of the support DVD. Perhaps things have changed in yours?
When you get to the DOS prompt, you could perhaps try changing to the root directory of the X drive and running the bit that searches for the USB drive and supplies that drive letter to the RCDGHOST bat script. Note that since this is being executed at the DOS prompt rather than in a bat file in the tutorial, you only use %d instead of %%d:
CD \
for %d in (H G F E D C) do if exist %d:\ X:\RCDGHOST.BAT %d "" 2 0 1
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!! The last part:
December 17, 2009 8:38 AM"Update : 25-10-2009 - Alternate method" Was genius!!!! so, thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!
After trying to boot from USB pendrive, error massage says:
December 18, 2009 6:56 PMNTLDR missing..
Press CTL ALT DEL to restart
its an eeepc900 (plain, not HA or else)
followed the instructions, set bios to boot from usb
Thank you so much!! After recieving the "the system was not fully installed" message, we used the F9 recovery method as described with not problems! Only took about 8 minutes or so to reinstall itself! Thanks a million! (Realized after the fact that during the first startup, the power flashed and it was unable to fully install itself - you saved us a million headaches on the phone with tech support!)
December 26, 2009 3:17 PMHello Spemi,
December 27, 2009 8:05 PMI am trying to recover for Asus Eee 701. RCDGHOST.BAT is as follow:
@echo off
REM Source
set DVD_ROM=%1:
REM Password
set IMG_PWD=%2
REM HDID
set HD_ID=%3
REM SETUP HD
rem -----
If %HD_ID%==0 diskpart /s X:\HD0.txt
If %HD_ID%==1 diskpart /s X:\HD1.txt
If %HD_ID%==2 diskpart /s X:\HD2.txt
If %HD_ID%==3 diskpart /s X:\HD3.txt
If %HD_ID%==4 diskpart /s X:\HD4.txt
If %HD_ID%==5 diskpart /s X:\HD5.txt
If %HD_ID%==6 diskpart /s X:\HD6.txt
If %HD_ID%==7 diskpart /s X:\HD7.txt
If %HD_ID%==8 diskpart /s X:\HD8.txt
If %HD_ID%==9 diskpart /s X:\HD9.txt
REM HDDST
If %HD_ID%==0 set HD_DST=1
If %HD_ID%==1 set HD_DST=2
If %HD_ID%==2 set HD_DST=3
If %HD_ID%==3 set HD_DST=4
If %HD_ID%==4 set HD_DST=5
If %HD_ID%==5 set HD_DST=6
If %HD_ID%==6 set HD_DST=7
If %HD_ID%==7 set HD_DST=8
If %HD_ID%==8 set HD_DST=9
If %HD_ID%==9 set HD_DST=10
rem step2
rem -----
X:\gdisk32.exe 1 /mbr /z
rem step3
rem -----
X:\ghost32.exe -clone,mode=load,src=%DVD_ROM%\RECOVERY\EEEPC.gho,dst=%HD_DST% -sure -fx -quiet
:end
exit
I've tried changing the following:
Replace
set DVD_ROM=%1:
to
set DVD_ROM=D:
Replace
set HD_ID=%3
to
set HD_ID=0
But after selecting Booth Device the booth screen is blank with no error message or prompt. Just a cursor.
Are you able to get me further?
Thank you,
Joyce
what would happen if i don't 'disable the boot booster'?
December 31, 2009 12:00 AMit's my first time doing this.
it wont delete the files in drive D right?
Dear sir,
January 10, 2010 11:57 AMi'm using 901
i followed the step that u teached in 11/23, but nothing happened after i booted from the USB, and loaded the ramdisk
its load into the asus page, pop the dos prompt quick, and disapper (i dont know whats it is, too fast)
and then, it reboot again
/lemon
i rebuild the USB flash, and follow 11/23 steps again.
January 11, 2010 6:23 AMAll RUN great
thx
/lemon
Greetings!
January 25, 2010 5:17 AMMade the mistake of choosing the Rescue partition after installing Ubuntu Remix; it "remixed" my MBR so that all I was getting was the "grub rescue" prompt. Bootable USB drive with UltraISO was the only thing that worked. Thanks for your research...
/cdm
Using an Asus Eee PC 1005HA Netbook (again!)
January 25, 2010 5:18 AMThanks!
/cdm
i have formated my HD. and this error occur, "application error occur 27074. Ghost has detected corruption in the image file. please perform an integrity check on the image".
January 29, 2010 9:24 AMplease solve the problem......
Does anyone know if recovering reverts the partitions to what they were before? I'd like to dual boot but would like control over where XP installs to and such. Thanks!
February 10, 2010 7:45 AMI have the Eee 1005ha, I did everything (alternative method with USB). But when I reboot the netbook with the USB, said: Disk I/0 error.
February 12, 2010 6:30 AMBefore I try with F9 restore and also didn't work.
Any idea?
thanks
Thank you so much.. I just completed re-boot using f9 key... Lost everything but at least it now works...... Thanks for the info
February 13, 2010 1:20 PMhi i'm not the most computer savvy. however my girl has eee pc 1005hab i've tried the alternate methods. upon started the eeepc the screen says
February 26, 2010 3:10 PMStart booting from USB device......
Again i don't know much about these things. seems to me more should be happening. could use your advice SPEMI thank you!
when i load from my usb i get this error
March 8, 2010 12:36 PMthe file iastor.sys could not be found.
what can i do to fix it?
more information, tips n tricks visit to http://spyder-blitz.blogspot.com/
March 12, 2010 4:58 AMThank you so much! I've just restored my Win XP on my Eee PC 701 using BartPE.
March 12, 2010 10:01 AMhi i got assus 1001ha i tried loot of thing even this also but i cant boot from pen drive can u pls help me out
March 17, 2010 11:19 AMPlese help me!
April 10, 2010 7:34 PMwhen I clik build in Bart PE Builder: invalid source path (cannot find file i386/layout.inf
Thank's
Avif Haryana
hello,
April 10, 2010 8:45 PMI am trying to fix my friends 900hd, and followed all of the above steps to create the bootable usb. After the RAMDISK loads, the eeepc screen pops up momentarily, then turns off and restarts again! can someone please help me to try and figure out what i did wrong? Thanks!!
/jns
I have posted a video on how to do this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMsMXOterc
April 11, 2010 2:22 AMThis is great! Just followed the directions to reinstall to factory condition using F2 and then F9 keys. GREAT INSTRUCTIONS! Almost too fast! So greatful!
April 11, 2010 7:09 AMIs there a possibility to install windows xp arabic enabled to EEE PC 1000HE? thanks before
April 11, 2010 8:04 AMI have followed all the steps.
April 28, 2010 9:47 PMBut when I start the reboot process, the screen only shows this:
Start booting from USB device...
-
No progress from there on.
Any solution?
I'm trying to use the first set of steps using f9, and to goes through the whole process like you said, then the screen just says 'reboot' and when i do, it just take me right back to the reformat screen, i didn't hit any keys.
May 13, 2010 1:03 PMwhat am i doing wrong?
<3 Lorelei
Thank you so much for this, WORKS GREAT !!!
May 19, 2010 9:17 AMThanks a TON for the 901 modification tutorial!
May 21, 2010 7:03 PMPartition recovery is a powerful partition recovery application that provides complete recovery of lost partitions and data .
May 24, 2010 10:12 PMGreat it WORKS on my 1000h
May 27, 2010 11:53 AMIt didnt work at first and it said 'cannot find recovery cd', but then I realized I missed the last step in the ultraISO method, saving. lol.
Build an XP Pro VLK install with slipstreamed Asus drivers on another machine, Ghost after sysprepping, and you'd have an even better OS.
June 2, 2010 7:08 AMthankz a lot..... it works...
June 9, 2010 7:44 AMI cannot thank you enough.
June 27, 2010 11:46 PMI was sitting here all frustrated trying to get my drivers on a copy of Dell Windows XP Home Edition SP1, and so I googled for easier installation and this game up.
It worked perfectly, I was amazed at how even the Microsoft Works, and Norton, Microsoft Office 2007 came back.
My computer is working great now thanks to you, I am going to recommend this to everyone I know with an EEE PC.
Thank you very much for posting this solution.
June 28, 2010 1:36 PMIt worked like a charm for my young child' Asus 1005HA.
People like you on the internet make life easier first time around.
Just wanted to say thanks so much for this guide. It was really a BIG help! You rock!
July 11, 2010 12:51 PMI've been attempting to recover my girlfriend's Asus EEE PC 1005HAB. I've tried the alternate method since I don't have any windows source files (Windows 7 disk does't work it seems) and using this method I have a feeling these batch files won't work on the basis that to boot from the USB I have to change the primary harddrive to the USB; selecting external media won't work. In doing so, I don't think its actually partitioning the main harddrive.
August 15, 2010 11:01 PMI'm gathering this is due to the variable %HD1_xxx%. My question is if this variable really reflects the primary harddrive. So essentially, I feel like it's doing everything to the USB drive.
After the following the tutorial, I run everything fine. After the reboot, it just repeats itself. If I take out the USB after the initial reboot, it starts running the WinPE (as if I hit F9). Ghost runs and then gives me an error message stating there's an inconsistency with the images, indicating the real primary harddrive did not get completely formatted. Anyone have any tips?
My 1201HAB bios was a little different. To get it to boot from the USB, I had to first go to Hard Disk Drives under the boot menu and change the USB drive to be first HDD. Then go to the Boot Device Priority and select the USB drive.
August 21, 2010 9:55 AMOther than that, the USB option worked great for me.
Method IV didn't work for me - my wife's netbook just wouldn't boot. It stayed stuck on the same screen forever until being shut off.
September 1, 2010 4:11 AMI tried many other things before going back to your site and trying method III (BartPE). It worked perfectly and finally I can rest. Thank you for the excellent tutorial!
Thanks for posting this. I have a 1005HAB and messed up the MBR and recovery partition while experimenting Ubuntu. Now I am trying go back to winxp. I used the UltraIso and 11/23/2010's recommendation on the modified .bat and .ini file. Looks like it partitioned the hard drive and put the recovery image on the hard drive. Now every time, the eee pc is booted up, it goes to window preinstall environment. the light blue eee pc screen shows up with a pop-up window with title of "AutoIt Error" and following message:
September 4, 2010 6:33 AMLine 0 (File "X:\minint\SYSTEM32\recovery.exe"):
RUN("ghost32 -clone,mode=pload,src=X:\"&$lang&":1,dst=1:1 -sure -fx
-quiet","",@SW_HIDE)
RUN("ghost32 -clone,mode=pload,src=X:\"&^ ERROR
Error: Variable used without being declared.
Please help.
I tried pressing F9 key after disabling boot booster then i press F10 key before it boot up, but nothing happen...it only took me to
September 7, 2010 2:21 PMwindows. Is there something i missed? Please help!
Oh dear! Ok..so my keyboard and mousepad werent working when i turned on my 901 today. Thought i would recovery windows after uninstalling and re-installing didnt work. Got as far as step 2. in the "using F9 Key" option above;
October 21, 2010 7:07 AM2. Disable Boot Booster. The boot booster item in BIOS setup helps eee pc to boot quicker. Boot booster must disabled before using system recovery. Start the eeepc and press F2 Key on bootup to show post screen. Again press F2 key to enter Bios setup. Disable Boot Booster which is available under 'Boot' tab. Press F10 to save configuration and reboot Eee PC 900ha.
When I restarted PC got following error msg;
"windows could not start becasue the following file is missing or corrupt:
\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file."
Little help?????
ps. I chose "f9" option as I cant find my CD/DVD anywhere. And this semed alot easier anyway.
pss. Im an amateur..BIG ONE!
Thanks!!!
I followed this method >> "Update : 25-10-2009 - Alternate method" everything goes fine ... RAMDISK loaded and then on my screen appears Eee PC screen with cmd.exe opened and thats all. Can someone help me with this ? I don't know what can I do. I have ASUS Eee PC 900a
October 23, 2010 1:51 AM(**sorry if this posts again..dunno if it worked before**)
October 24, 2010 6:47 PMHi!
Please ignore my post 'October 21, 2010 7:07 AM'.
I found my XP Support DVD Rev 1.0. I have 901 model.
I've tried both the 'Update : 25-10-2009 - Alternate method'
and the 'November 23, 2009 10:50 AM' (901 tut.)
Neither worked!!???? :( HELP??? I leave on OS trip in 1 week and need this working :/
the 'alt method' seems to start fine..takes about 3min or less and then reboots... the BIOS option screen shows for few seconds as normal..but then it goes to MS Dos.
the '901' tut. Seemed to start loading from USB, but then got following error messages;
"File name? (546)
Output error file to the following locations:
A:\GHOSTERR.TXT"
..with option to select "OK" or "CANCLE"
when selected "OK"
"ERROR
Cannot open GHOSTERR.TXT
-insert diskette (434)
..with option to select "OK" only.
then it just reverts back to previous error message.
When I selected "CANCLE"
"Application Error 27076
Ghost has detected corruption in the image file. Please perform an integrity check on the image. If this problem persists, contact Symantec Tech. Supp. at http://www.blah blah etc etc"
this just reverted to MS Dos as well i think...but not sure... i know it didnt let me continue anyways.
Would REALLY appreciate any help/advice!???
Ive learnt alot from this blog! Thanks so much! Its awesome!! I dont have money to pay for this, so its INVALUABLE! Thankyou thankyou!!!...would be EVEN BETTER if i could work out how to make it work :/
Cheers (Tim)
hi i have asus eee pc 1005p . and i dont have recovery tools for tht and my os is crashed now. now when i m trying to use startup repair so it says dont send error.
February 19, 2011 5:50 AMGreat tutorial!!! Got me out of a bind!!!!
March 16, 2011 10:48 AMalright i set priorety drive to the flash drive but when i rebooted nuthing happened? it just booted like it would regularly
March 27, 2011 5:22 AMThank for the guide it is awesome manage to get my eee pc alive
April 2, 2011 7:08 AMI'm in a bind.. it's not booting from the usb. I have it properly set, the usb has been built properly, yet it doesn't read from it.
April 7, 2011 9:30 PMI have been trying for some time to reboot my EeePC 900 following your second method as F9 does nothing.
May 25, 2011 3:01 PMI have successfully set up a USB stick and it does boot the EeePC and BartPE loads but before I can do anything Windows starts and immediately goes to a blue screen and says it has shut down to avoid damage. Everything seems OK on the USB stick but there are two ghost files from the original setup disc, EEEPC1.GHO and EEEPS2.GHO.
I would try the alternate method but unless I register UltraISO will not handle a sufficiently large image and until I am satisfied it will work I don't want to spend $29.95.
Any suggestions will be most welcome.
thankkksssss .. you save my eeee pc :) :) :)
June 10, 2011 12:46 AMThis seriously saved me hours... thank you. Method #2, FTW. Thank you!
June 21, 2011 2:43 PMI have been trying to recover my EeePC 900ha fom win7 back to win XP (it was origanally XP). after the reformatting my computer just restarts itself and than goes back to the same messege box about reformatting the computer. if I click 'ok' again, it is reformating again and restarts and return to the same screen. if click 'cencel' it just restarts and returns to the same screen.
July 2, 2011 8:17 AMWhat should I do?
I have problems rebooting my asus 900HA. the reformatting went smoothly, but after the computer restarted it just produced the same messege about how it's now going to reformat. if i choose 'yes' it reformats, restarts and returns to the same messege. if i choose 'cancel' it just restarts and return to the same messege.
July 3, 2011 1:02 AMPS sorry if I posted this before, a day has passed and my post hasn't shown.
I got to the point where RAMDisk loads but after it finishes loading, my Eee pc crashes and restarts. I have a 1101 HA. Please help me
July 5, 2011 11:18 PMTop man worked a treat using ultra iso.
July 13, 2011 8:06 AMmassive thanks
worked great for eee pc1000ha, thank you.
August 2, 2011 5:50 PMThis is beyond all other ASUS USB boot tutorials...
September 2, 2011 8:44 AMCopy image and then make an edit of 2 files only.... vouala!
Simples!
Thank you
I have followed every step on alternate 2 section with no problems, both of the files have been edited and replaced. confirmed it several times. also the netbook's booting is set as well however when i use the stick i get this error on my netbook: "invalid partition table"
September 19, 2011 11:58 AMany solutions for this error?
I CAN NOT THANK YOU ENOUGH YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!!!!!!
October 29, 2011 5:33 PMI have eee901, will not complete bootup. It gets to the windowsXP screen but without the account login icons, and hums for a minute or two in the background before the drive light goes out. I have a second SS drive, which will boot. Problem is all my data on the 1st drive is no longer accessible. It shows up in WinExplorer, but no access. The account on the bad drive is passworded, which may be part of the problem. I do have the Bartee USB stick. Is there any way to restore the XP without completely reformatting the disk? Alternatively, is there anyway to access passworded account files on a primary boot disk after the XP is corrupted? Any advice appreciated.
November 5, 2011 3:30 AMI have the 900hd but cant find the support dvd to format it any ideas where i can download a copy, i have tried one torrent site but there is never any seeds on.. Cheers
December 10, 2011 5:45 AMThank you so much and Merry Xmas
December 20, 2011 9:36 AMHi. I have a eee 900. I followed the instructions on here and am stuck in an endless loop of the following:
December 29, 2011 2:48 PMStart booting from usb device
Loading RAMDISK image... (shows a bar to indicate it is loading)
Starting Windows preinstallation environment
Please wait
Goes into the ASUS screen with a quick flash of a DOS window
Reboots
I am assuming that it is something to do with changing the appropriate values in the files but I am not sure what I should put instead of the ones listed above which you said are for the 900ha. Can anyone help? I would be so grateful to have this netbook up and running for my son again! Thank you!