pauluk83

ok here is the output from the bcdedit OUTPUT.TXT the laptop came with windows 8, i updated it to windows 8.1 i folowed some forums and a few people had this issue after updating the bios with windows 8.1, basically the laptop wouldnt boot , and windows couldnt even do the automatic repair

Hy thanks for your reply. The f9 key doesn't work anymore. From asus I was told just press it when the asus logo appears on boot There was no on screen message before about the f9 key The laptop can boot into windows at the moment using a generic oem install If I assign a grove letter to the recovery partition I can see that there still is the data on there

anyone help?

hey all for some reason my laptop was unable to boot, had to restore using a windows 8 oem disc rather then the recovery image. as it wasnt working after getting my system up and running i am still unable to to press the f9 key on my asus k55a laptop, and reilised that its out of warenty they want to charge me for the reimaging of the hard drive i have part got the laptop to atleast recignise the recovery image as now i have the option to create a recovery drive, but upon testing it, it still asks for the media for install here is my reagent.xml file <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><WindowsRE version="2.0"><WinreBCD id="{267d66e7-cac6-11e3-bf61-fbecbf5a7db4}"/><WinreLocation path="\Recovery\WindowsRE" id="0" offset="554696704" guid="{b54dddc0-5c18-434d-8691-a4e1f47971c3}"/><ImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/><PBRImageLocation path="\RecoveryImage" id="0" offset="978718494720" guid="{ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433587c0-68b6b72699c7}" index="1"/><PBRCustomImageLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" index="0"/><InstallState state="1"/><OsInstallAvailable state="1"/><CustomImageAvailable state="0"/><IsAutoRepairOn state="0"/><WinREStaged state="0"/><OperationParam path=""/><OsBuildVersion path="9600.17041.amd64fre.winblue_gdr.140305-1710"/><OemTool state="1"/><IsServer state="0"/><DownlevelWinreLocation path="" id="0" offset="0" guid="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"/><IsWimBoot state="0"/><ScheduledOperation state="4"/></WindowsRE>windows was missing this bit so i readded it <PBRImageLocation path="\RecoveryImage" id="0" offset="978718494720" guid="{ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433587c0-68b6b72699c7}" index="1"/> attatched is 2 screenshots from my info from diskpart i hope that someone can help me to get this factory image woking