I did press F9 again to ensure that it was the cause of the problem and it happened exactly the same and I fixed it again with no problem other than wasted time. This is just my guess and could be completely wrong. I would guess that when that is working properly it will remap the boot back to C:, but this isn't happening since the recovery partition doesn't actually launch. It appears to me that when you press F9 it must remap the boot process temporarily to launch recovery (failing in my case). I still have not determined how to properly fix my system so that the recovery partition will boot on F9. I tried this procedure and it was magically fixed! Awesome, but clearly the F9 recovery method was non-functional. Trouble Shoot -> Advanced Options -> Command Prompt It wasn't exactly the same scenario, but I followed the suggestion to boot from the install CD (remember, I had one from a previous system): I was ready to reinstall the 750GB and start over when I found this post: No efforts I tried would enable it to reboot. Nope, it did the same thing saying I needed recovery. I figured no big deal, just reboot normally. The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. Pressing Enter or F8 resulted in additional clarification of: Doh! It immediately crashed to a screen saying something similar to the below:Ī required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Later I decided to test that the recovery partition would boot properly. I used the free version of Macrium Reflect and cloned all partitions except for the D: partition which was empty anyway.Īfter the clone I removed the old drive and booted the SSD. I do have my own Windows 8 media available from a previous computer, but not from ASUS. I bought a Samsung 840 Pro and proceeded to attempt to clone the 750GB drive to it since there is no recovery media included with the WIndows 8 distribution (and no way to create the media as there was in previous Windows 7 models). It came with a 750GB drive and I intended to replace with an SSD.

I bought the G75 with windows 8 installed last week. Note: This post is specific to the Windows 8 G75 model, it don't think it applies to Windows 7.

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