Recover Asus Eee 1005HA/1005HAB Windows XP Netbook
Recovering your Asus Eee 1005HA or 1005HAB netbook can fix some of the major system problems, and it may even save you a trip to the computer repair shop. The netbook comes with either the Windows XP or GNU Linux operating system. Regardless of your operating system, the recovery process is the same. Recovering your netbook can restore missing system files causing errors when running programs. This process can also permanently remove pesky viruses that are severely slowing down your netbook or rendering it nearly inoperable.
Instructions
Recover Using Recovery Partition
1. Turn on or restart the Asus Eee 1005HA or 1005HAB netbook. Press the "F2" key repeatedly during the boot process to be redirected to the netbook's "Power On Self-Test (POST)" screen. Press "F2" again to access the "BIOS Setup Utility" program.
2. Press the "Right Arrow" key on the keyboard until "Boot" is highlighted. Press the "Down Arrow" key on the keyboard until "Boot Booster" is highlighted. Press "Enter," and then use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight "Disabled." Press "Enter" to disable the "Boot Booster" program. Press "F10" to save your changes to the "BIOS Setup Utility" program and restart your Asus Eee 1005HA or 1005HAB netbook.
3. Press "F9" repeatedly when the netbook begins booting up to access the Asus Eee recovery program. Click the check mark button at the bottom of the screen below the message informing you that recovering the netbook to its original factory settings will erase all of your personal files and installed programs on the netbook to begin the recovery process. The recovery process will take 10 to 20 minutes.
4. Click "OK" when a message appears notifying you that the recovery process is finished to restart the netbook. The netbook will boot up to your operating system setup screen.
Recover Using Recovery Disc
5. Follow Steps 1 and 2 in Section 1 to disable the "Boot Booster" program. After the Asus Eee 1005HA or 1005HAB restarts, plug an external USB optical drive into an available USB port on your netbook. Insert the recovery disc that came with your netbook into the optical drive. Restart the netbook.
6. Press "Esc" repeatedly while the netbook is booting up to be redirected to the "Please select boot device" menu. Highlight the name of your external USB optical drive that appears in the list using the arrow keys on the keyboard, and then press "Enter." Press "Enter" again to restart the netbook and boot from the optical drive. The netbook will boot up to the Recovery System for Eee PC program.
7. Click "OK" beneath the message in the program window warning you that all of your personal files and programs installed on the netbook will be erased. Click "Yes" to begin the recovery process, which typically takes between 10 and 20 minutes.
8. Remove the recovery disc from the external optical drive. Click "OK" when a message appears notifying you that the recovery process is finished to restart the netbook. The netbook will boot up to your operating system setup screen.
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