System Partition Recovery : if you have not modified the partitions of your MSI laptop, this allows you to restore only the 'C' partition where Windows 8 is installed without deleting your personal data which is in the 'DATA' partition of the internal hard drive.

In other words, you will find a laptop PC with a brand new Windows 8 as it was when you turned it on the first time, but your personal data will have been erased.

Hard Disk Recovery : allows you to completely erase your laptop's internal hard drive and restore it to its factory state.

Then, the MSI recovery system will appear.Īs you can see, you have 2 options to choose from : The MSI logo will appear with a loading icon as below. Then, a 'Press any key to boot from CD or DVD' message will appear.

Your laptop restarts and the MSI logo appears. Select 'Yes' and press Enter again to confirm.ģ. Then, go to the 'Save & Exit' tab, select the 'Save Changes and Reset' option and press Enter. Select 'CD/DVD' which corresponds to the CD/DVD drive built into your laptop PC. Now that your laptop is configured to boot in UEFI mode, select the 'Boot Option #1' line using the arrow keys on your keyboard and press Enter to change its value. change the value of 'Fast Boot' to 'Enabled'.change the value of 'Boot mode select' to 'UEFI'.American Megatrends, Inc' BIOS, go to the 'Boot' tab. To do this, when your laptop starts up (before Windows starts), press the 'Del' key on the keyboard several times to enter its BIOS. To restore your laptop using these recovery DVDs, you will need to boot your laptop on the first recovery DVD.

This will allow you to understand that this DVD is bootable thanks to Windows PE (if you know what it is). In the 'RECOVERY_DVD' folder of this 1st DVD, you will find the image of Windows 8 (OSIMG.SWM) for this laptop PC.įinally, in the 'SOURCES' folder of the recovery DVD, you will find a 'BOOT.WIM' file. : which correspond to the recovery programs created by MSI IMAGEX : which allows you to create an image of a Windows installation as a file (or restore it to a hard drive).DISM : which allows you to modify a Windows installation.If you look on this DVD, you will find programs such as : To restore your MSI laptop, insert the 1st Recovery DVD (recovery_dvd.iso). Restoring Windows 8 to factory state from MSI recovery DVDs.Unable to restore system partition (if partition table has been modified).In this tutorial, you will see how to restore your MSI laptop (in our case : MSI GE60 2OE-080FR) from these recovery DVDs. When you purchase an MSI laptop, you have the option of creating recovery DVDs with MSI Burn Recovery.

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