Δευτέρα 17 Οκτωβρίου 2011

Restoring asus eeepc 1000H using USB falsh disk

Here is an alternative method to recover windows xp on eee pc using USB.
Requirements.

1. A PC with DVD Drive
2. Eee PC XP Support DVD (Which comes with your EEE PC. It have ghost images of XP)
3. USD Stick (atleast 4 GB)
4. UltraISO Trial Version

Insert Asus Eee pc recovery dvd into DVD drive. Download and install ultraiso trial version fromhttp://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/download.htm . Open UltraISO as Administrator (right-click shortcut, "Run as Administrator").

Goto 'File' menu and click 'Open CD/DVD...' and choose recovery dvd drive letter and open. Recovery DVD contents will be loaded in Ultra ISO.

Plug USB drive and click on 'Bootable' menu and choose 'Write Disk Image' in Ultraiso.




In 'Disk Drive' select USB drive letter. In write method choose 'USB-HDD'. Then click 'Xpress Boot' --> 'Xpress Write'


In 20-30 minutes Recovery DVD files will be copied to USB. Now we need to edit two files in USB.


In UltraISO click 'File' --> 'Open' . Browse newly created USB drive and find 'WINPE.ISO' file and open that.

Right click on the file RCDGHOST.BAT and click 'Extract'. The file will be extracted and shown in local file browser window. Right click RCDGHOST.BAT file there and click on 'View'. The file open in Notepad.


Find
set DVD_ROM=%1

and replace with
set DVD_ROM=D:


Find
set HD_COUNT=%3

and replace with
set HD_COUNT=1

Find
:HDF9
set HD1_ID=%4

and replace with
:HDF9
set HD1_ID=0

[Important Note : This settings changes are only for Asus Eee PC 900ha. If you have any other model, go through the file and change appropriate values (:HDF9 may change). for example if you have 'EEEPCAH.GHO' in recovery folder, you need to change

:AHD
set HD1_ID=%4

to

:AHD
set HD1_ID=0

]



Then save the file. Right click on the file and click 'Add' . It will ask confirmation to overwrite the file in USB. Click 'Yes'.


Like this we need to edit 'WINPESHL.INI' which is located in /I386/SYSTEM32 . Browse to that folder in UltraISO. Rightclick and extract the file WINPESHL.INI . Right click and click view and open in notepad.


Find
AppPath = X:\EPCRECOVER.EXE

and replace with
AppPath = X:\RCDGHOST.BAT


Save the file, Right click and select 'Add' to overwrite in USB. Now in UltraISO click File --> Save .


Thats all. The modified files updated and Bootable Eee PC recovery USB is ready. Reboot your Eee PC netbook and press F2 key to enter BIOS setup. Set 1st Boot Device as USB Pen Drive. Press F10 to save settings and reboot. It should boot from the USB dirve now. Sit back and watch :).

After successful reboot, you can see Ghost restore window and that will make partitions on Eee PC. Then that will automatically create hidden Pre installation environment on E: and EEEPC-ENG.GHO copied to that drive. This may take 10 minutes.

After this process eee pc will be automatically restarted. Carefully remove USB drive. After reboot, Windows XP will be restored with factory settings.

If you have any trouble feel free to ask in comments.