I just bought an Asus ux305 laptop from eBay.
When it arrived, it had the Windows startup menus for creating a new user. I wanted to do a complete refresh of the system, so loaded the W10 iso onto a USB using the Windows media creation tool, and booted into it.
Here's where I think I have done something very wrong. I got to the point in the installation where you are presented with the disk partitions. The partitions included SYSTEM, a reserved partition, the primary partition, and the recovery partition.
My intention was to do a full format of the SSD, to try to get rid of the bloatware. After some googling, some people suggested to do a proper formatting of the entire SSD. So in the windows installation menu, I used the command prompt to select disks 0 and 1, and called the clean function. After doing this, the available partitions reduced to just one - the primary partition. This was now showing as the full size of the SSD, which I thought was great.
But the menu wouldn't let me use that partition to do the install. It simply wouldn't let me choose next. So after snooping around the troubleshooting menus in the installation screens, I ended up trying to reboot.
The laptop reboots straight into the BIOS. And now the bios wont let me boot from USB, which I fear is because I may have deleted the required drivers for this particular laptop. I have no recovery media at all.
In fact, the BIOS doesn't seem to recognise any USB device plugged in at all. I took the USB and tried formatting it on my desktop, but windows complains and the usb automatically ejects itself.
So as of right now, I've gone from having a functional W10 laptop with a functional 32GB USB drive to nothing.
If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
When it arrived, it had the Windows startup menus for creating a new user. I wanted to do a complete refresh of the system, so loaded the W10 iso onto a USB using the Windows media creation tool, and booted into it.
Here's where I think I have done something very wrong. I got to the point in the installation where you are presented with the disk partitions. The partitions included SYSTEM, a reserved partition, the primary partition, and the recovery partition.
My intention was to do a full format of the SSD, to try to get rid of the bloatware. After some googling, some people suggested to do a proper formatting of the entire SSD. So in the windows installation menu, I used the command prompt to select disks 0 and 1, and called the clean function. After doing this, the available partitions reduced to just one - the primary partition. This was now showing as the full size of the SSD, which I thought was great.
But the menu wouldn't let me use that partition to do the install. It simply wouldn't let me choose next. So after snooping around the troubleshooting menus in the installation screens, I ended up trying to reboot.
The laptop reboots straight into the BIOS. And now the bios wont let me boot from USB, which I fear is because I may have deleted the required drivers for this particular laptop. I have no recovery media at all.
In fact, the BIOS doesn't seem to recognise any USB device plugged in at all. I took the USB and tried formatting it on my desktop, but windows complains and the usb automatically ejects itself.
So as of right now, I've gone from having a functional W10 laptop with a functional 32GB USB drive to nothing.
If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
