- Feb 8, 2014
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Hey everyone!
I have a laptop running Windows 8.1 x64 (previously Win8 Home, pre-free upgrade). I got it about a year ago and, through school, video games, and experimentation with different programs, it's gotten pretty slow. I attempted to factory restore the laptop last night, but I received a message saying that a necessary drive partition was missing.
After some Google searching, I found someone who said that refreshing the laptop first would likely restore the partition so I could do a full restore. I tried that, and received another error message saying the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Fast-forward several hours, cups of coffee, and headaches, and I've tried just about every tutorial I could get my hands on. Nothing has worked. I've even tried running Darik's Boot and Nuke with no luck whatsoever. I even tried doing a restore point and, even though I create one whenever I'm asked by a program I'm installing, Windows can't find a single one to go back to.
Does anyone have any ideas on what else I should try? It was bugging me that my laptop is slow, and now that I can't fix it, it's driving me absolutely mad. It is a Windows 8.1 x64 laptop but, for some reason, Windows 8.1 Pro is now displayed in PC Properties.
Edit: My laptop and specs:
ASUS X750J-B
Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.40GHz Processor
8 GB RAM
2 GB GPU
1 TB HDD
1 TB SSD
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X750-17-Inch-Laptop-VERSION/dp/B00DXFF6QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431393472&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+x750jb
I have a laptop running Windows 8.1 x64 (previously Win8 Home, pre-free upgrade). I got it about a year ago and, through school, video games, and experimentation with different programs, it's gotten pretty slow. I attempted to factory restore the laptop last night, but I received a message saying that a necessary drive partition was missing.
After some Google searching, I found someone who said that refreshing the laptop first would likely restore the partition so I could do a full restore. I tried that, and received another error message saying the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Fast-forward several hours, cups of coffee, and headaches, and I've tried just about every tutorial I could get my hands on. Nothing has worked. I've even tried running Darik's Boot and Nuke with no luck whatsoever. I even tried doing a restore point and, even though I create one whenever I'm asked by a program I'm installing, Windows can't find a single one to go back to.
Does anyone have any ideas on what else I should try? It was bugging me that my laptop is slow, and now that I can't fix it, it's driving me absolutely mad. It is a Windows 8.1 x64 laptop but, for some reason, Windows 8.1 Pro is now displayed in PC Properties.
Edit: My laptop and specs:
ASUS X750J-B
Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.40GHz Processor
8 GB RAM
2 GB GPU
1 TB HDD
1 TB SSD
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-X750-17-Inch-Laptop-VERSION/dp/B00DXFF6QC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431393472&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+x750jb
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