Asus Preload Wizard Problem

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Tim P

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My son ran the Asus Preload Wizard and picked option 2. It seems that he wiped the laptop. Is there anyway to recover what was lost? I did look at system recovery and that was not an option.
 
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Phillip Corcoran
You may be able to recover your data by using partition recovery software (see link below), but to do that you'll first have to remove the drive and install it as a second drive in another Windows desktop PC. Alternatively, buy an external enclosure for the drive and plug it in to a USB port on another Windows PC.

Easus Partition Recovery: http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

Even then, it's likely that some of the data will be incomplete or corrupted because it will have been overwritten by the factory preload restore process.

Needless to say, you wouldn't be in this situation if you'd kept your data backed up to another drive in the first place. It's an essential task because one day the computer's hard drive will fail and...
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You may be able to recover your data by using partition recovery software (see link below), but to do that you'll first have to remove the drive and install it as a second drive in another Windows desktop PC. Alternatively, buy an external enclosure for the drive and plug it in to a USB port on another Windows PC.

Easus Partition Recovery: http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

Even then, it's likely that some of the data will be incomplete or corrupted because it will have been overwritten by the factory preload restore process.

Needless to say, you wouldn't be in this situation if you'd kept your data backed up to another drive in the first place. It's an essential task because one day the computer's hard drive will fail and when that happens there's just no way to recover the data that's on it without paying a lot of money for a professional data recovery service.
 
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