Recovery.dat

Hi Experts,
I have an Asus F5 laptop with Vista Home premium. I was loading Ubuntu 9.04. Once I restarted, I got a GRUB menu. Once I clicked on Vista loader, I got an error in BIG red ERROR. C:Recovery.dat file not found.
I have used the recovery Vista CD but it not have a recovery option or console , so cannot use fixmbr in command line.
If I load Vista , it asks for the driver CD and then I get a GRUB error 22.
I am unable to get into Vista.

learnvista

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Hello

No answr but the same problem

I get the same message when i have installed Windows 7 to a brand new asus K50AB
at least once i have activated it. if one Googles, one sees that this si a specific problem with asus laptops when installing new op systems either Win 7 or Linux

No answr but the same problem

I get the same message when i have installed Windows 7 to a brand new asus K50AB
at least once i have activated it. if one Googles, one sees that this si a specific problem with asus laptops when installing new op systems either Win 7 or Linux

Having searched other forums it looks like installing easyBCD to rewrite your boot manger may be the way to cure this, but you will need to to a fresh install to get to the position where you can install easy BCD before you reboot. I think deleting the recovery partition then installing your new op system also works but then you have no way back if everything else fails. if you are going to install Win 7 you can also apparently to an upgrade rather than a fresh install, but this doesnt help if you boughtthe system with a 32 bit Vista and want to put Win 7 64 bit on it.

All in all its a very bad fault for asus and they need to sort it out ASAP otherwise they aregoing to have a huge number of their laptops flying back to base when Win 7 launches for real.

fingers crossed that the EasyBCD solution works, I'm just waiting for the wretched op system to reinstall now.

Hi,
I have re-installed Vista using the Asus G1 Wiki
Asus G1S Wiki: Asus G1S Tips And Tricks

I have problems with the CD drive though

Regards,
Learnvista

delete hidden partition

I'm afraid using easyBCD didn't work for me in the end so I ended up deleting the hidden recover partition, and the boot partition and creating a new boot partition then doing a clean install of Win7. The recovery partition only had the factory installation of Vista on it in any case, and I'm not sure why anyone would be interested in loading Vista now that copies of the RTM version of Win 7 are now widely available on the torrent sites.

Vista is painfully slow

Vista is painfully slow. I dont how good Windows 7.
I have now installed Opensuse and Vista. If possible I will glady trade Vista for XP professional.
I can see the difference, XP is much faster
I cant do a backup in Vista , I get semaphore timed out

Learnvista

Wiin 7 is a huge improvement on both XP and Vista

Wiin 7 is a huge improvement on both XP and Vista and a pleasure to use.

I have used Unetbootin for Ubuntu 9.04 before and this problem happened. Now I have OpenSuse 11 installed but cant get internet.

Learnvista