Unable to use ASUS recovery partition, f9 is not working

Samuria said:

All you do is set it active and the current active one to none active you don't do anything else that will make it the boot drive and it should boot into recovery

how can i do it?

Backtracker might have worked had you created it back when the notebook was new, backtracker was flakey at best but did work for some people. You can google for it Im sure its still online. however since you installed Windows 10 you may not be able to run it, or actually be able to create recovery media. It might be worth a try Backtracker - How to recover system to factory default setting? | Official Support | ASUS Global
You can also go to Asus Support Download and download all available drivers for 8.1 and Windows 10 is there are any for 10 is not, just get the 8.1 drivers all of them. then Download an 8.1 install USB media from MCT Download Windows 8.1 Disc Image (ISO File). Since your computer came with 8.1 it is already registered in the Microsoft activation servers so just skip entering the product Code unless you actually have it. and it will auto-activate, then unplug from the internet and install the Asus drivers and software.

You can't do what Samurai suggested. Using bootable media and applying the image from install.wim is one possibility. Another may be to create bootable flash media from the contents of the recovery partition.

ArminZero said:

Samuria said:
All you do is set it active and the current active one to none active you don't do anything else that will make it the boot drive and it should boot into recovery




how can i do it?

A video on creating recovery media (:HowTo:) Create Recovery Media/Restore Disks for Your ASUS Laptop ~Windows 8 8.1 - YouTube

SIW2 said:

You can't do what Samurai suggested. Using bootable media and applying the image from install.wim is one possibility. Another may be to create bootable flash media from the contents of the recovery partition.

This would be correct and what the backtracker program did. If the partition is still valid all it should need is a UIEF boot sector, If I remember correctly it requires a 16GB USB

SIW2 said:

You can't do what Samurai suggested. Using bootable media and applying the image from install.wim is one possibility. Another may be to create bootable flash media from the contents of the recovery partition.

I will try to create a recovery bootable flash usb using asus backtracker, i'll update you.
One question: can i create a bootable partition with recovery content? without using usb flash?

i mean apply install.wim with imagex to a new partition

ArminZero said:

I will try to create a recovery bootable flash usb using asus backtracker, i'll update you.
One question: can i create a bootable partition with recovery content? without using usb flash?

i mean apply install.wim with imagex to a new partition

No the program was written for a USB Device, 16 GB are required and DVD only has 9 GB, it might possibly work with a Blue Disk, but then you have all the issues of trying to get a BD to Boot. Ensure you boot the recovery media UEFI. You do this by spamming the Esc Key after pressing the on button that brings up a boot menu select UEFI USB to boot from.

Samuria said:

A video on creating recovery media (:HowTo:) Create Recovery Media/Restore Disks for Your ASUS Laptop ~Windows 8 8.1 - YouTube

Good link, seems a waste to purchase an adapter and SD card since nowadays it cheaper to just buy a 16 GB USB thumb drive.

ArminZero said:

One question: can i create a bootable partition with recovery content? without using usb flash?

i mean apply install.wim with imagex to a new partition

Yes, that should be possible. You may need to take a couple of small steps after applying the wim. We can explain how to do that.

SIW2 said:

Yes, that should be possible. You may need to take a couple of small steps after applying the wim. We can explain how to do that.

Yes please, i want to know how to do it :)