OK, guys, so regarding my Win 8.1 laptop and the whole shenanigan I wrote about the other day with me really screwing up my recovery etc...
So, I called Asus. The first rep I spoke with didn't no jack crap! It was very very obvious she didn't. So, I called back, and got another rep. This rep really! really! knew his stuff! First of all, I found out that the boot menu is accessed by booting, then tapping on the escape key. Second of all, I tried, and when that didn't work, not only did he tell me what to change in the Bios, he literally grabbed a lab test machine of identically the same model, and step by step, keystroke by keystroke walked me step by step through what keys to hit, and where to scroll within the bios to fix it. We not only disabled secure boot, but we also got the boot priority set correctly as well. So now, my system boots first to DVD, then USB, and finally the hard drive. I have tested it out over here, and it works perfectly! The guy even helped me with downloading a utility called Backtracker. We later found out that this option wouldn't work, as it needs the recovery partition, so it looks like in order for me to get back that exact image, I'll have to send the unit off to them to reimage the drive. But! The good news is, I have a full retail copy both of Windows 7, and also one of Windows 8.1, so if something goes wrong, God forbid, now that I have the unit correctly booting to DVD, I'm totally set to ease. I'm probably gonna look now at some of those programs you all recommended for making an exact image of my drive. In addition to those recommended, does anyone know if Image for Windows from Terrabyte Unlimited has been updated to work with Win8? If so, I really don't have much after all my bills to throw around, but I may go ahead and just bite the bullet and upgrade my copy. Chris. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
