- Nov 25, 2014
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So here's the story:
I buy an ASUS X55CA-XX249H laptop with the i5 processor new from currys/PC world. It comes with windows 8 pre installed and the salesman asked if I wanted a 'knowhow' recovery of the OS on USB. Of course I said yes, thinking it was an alternative to the windows disk in case I needed to reinstall.
A few months down the line I decide windows 8 isn't for me.. as it isn't for most people in the right mindset. So I think clean installing a copy of a 64bit windows 7 ultimate would be the best thing, which magically worked on my PC without a 'serial key'.... so why not on my laptop?
Several boot loops later I realize the software may not be compatible.
I try to use the 'knowhow' USB to see if I could do a clean install and pretend it was all a bad dream, but unfortunately the BIOS in this laptop doesn't support booting from a flash drive.
I then try to burn onto a bootable disk, to find that the files are 12gb all together and any disk I find doesn't have enough memory (and the laptop does not have a BluRay-RW drive).
A few months down the line and 2 or 3 more clean installs later (due to the grace period running out), I finally have decided to accept defeat and ask(beg) for help.
My point is that I don't want to fork out £80+ for another copy of windows if I can use this knowhow USB.. And it's stressing the hell out of me having to go around in circles installing the OS, drivers and downloading software etc every 30 days!
So please, help a guy out!
I buy an ASUS X55CA-XX249H laptop with the i5 processor new from currys/PC world. It comes with windows 8 pre installed and the salesman asked if I wanted a 'knowhow' recovery of the OS on USB. Of course I said yes, thinking it was an alternative to the windows disk in case I needed to reinstall.
A few months down the line I decide windows 8 isn't for me.. as it isn't for most people in the right mindset. So I think clean installing a copy of a 64bit windows 7 ultimate would be the best thing, which magically worked on my PC without a 'serial key'.... so why not on my laptop?
Several boot loops later I realize the software may not be compatible.
I try to use the 'knowhow' USB to see if I could do a clean install and pretend it was all a bad dream, but unfortunately the BIOS in this laptop doesn't support booting from a flash drive.
I then try to burn onto a bootable disk, to find that the files are 12gb all together and any disk I find doesn't have enough memory (and the laptop does not have a BluRay-RW drive).
A few months down the line and 2 or 3 more clean installs later (due to the grace period running out), I finally have decided to accept defeat and ask(beg) for help.
My point is that I don't want to fork out £80+ for another copy of windows if I can use this knowhow USB.. And it's stressing the hell out of me having to go around in circles installing the OS, drivers and downloading software etc every 30 days!
So please, help a guy out!
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