- Nov 4, 2013
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I recently purchased an MSI GS70 which being a Linux nut I promptly installed Linux on (whipping the main hard drive in the process). However once Linux was installed I found out that my laptop would not function to my standards under it, sadly windows 8 had already been written over. However the laptop has a secondary hard drive within it which contains a recovery partition. So my problem is, how do I re-install windows off the recovery partition.
Here is what has been tried so far (to no avial)
-F3 Key on boot (goes straight to bios/uefi firmware settings)
-Using linux to apply the recovery image to the primary hard drive (wimlib-imagex)
-Using imagex to apply the winre.wim to a USB (winre.wim I believe is the recovery image).
-Booting from the secondary drive (I know its just an image but I had to try)
A few details on my system which may be helpful:
-Primary Hard Drive: 128Gb solid state, secondary: 750Gb disk drive
-MSI Laptop
Also I have access to a windows 7 computer, linux live USB, and if need be a windows 8 computer.
Here is what has been tried so far (to no avial)
-F3 Key on boot (goes straight to bios/uefi firmware settings)
-Using linux to apply the recovery image to the primary hard drive (wimlib-imagex)
-Using imagex to apply the winre.wim to a USB (winre.wim I believe is the recovery image).
-Booting from the secondary drive (I know its just an image but I had to try)
A few details on my system which may be helpful:
-Primary Hard Drive: 128Gb solid state, secondary: 750Gb disk drive
-MSI Laptop
Also I have access to a windows 7 computer, linux live USB, and if need be a windows 8 computer.
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