Comments on: Video: quickly factory restore an Asus Eee PC with SSD

By: Pat Finnigan

Pat Finnigan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:17:56 +0000

Hey Kevin. Terrific ! I made the mistake of applying a 901 video update and your solution made “undoing” that lightning fast. Quite a while ago I “moved to the cloud” so user data was not a problem. I will, of course re-load those games that seemed most interesting,and where I wasted a lot of valuable time …. }

By: JP

JP — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:59:29 +0000

Thank you I was trying to restore it through the CD that is given, and it taking so long. It still did not fix my problem until I watched your video. Thank you agian

By: Edward Hasbrouck

Edward Hasbrouck — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:41:08 +0000

This is comparable to (and only slightly simpler or faster than) the process fo a complete system restore of a Psion netBook from a CF card — with the difference that the Psion restore (a) will work regardless fo how completely yoiu have messed up any or all partitions on the internal flash drive, and (b) can optionally also restore all apps, settings, and data from the same CF card, as a second step of the process.

The eee is good, but still doesn’t match many of the usability features of the original Psion netBook.

By: pangGo

pangGo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:28:18 +0000

duuude!! thnx for the vdo man, it worked awesomely great!

By: Anthony Leotta

Anthony Leotta — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:02:34 +0000

Very helpful. My 13 year old daughter took over the EEE PC when she saw it. I haven’t seen it months…until they said it was broken.

I unscrewed the back panel to find the memory had popped out of its socket. When I reseated…the EEE PC would not boot. I used a paper clip to reset … then I used F9 as seen in this video.

I did a factory reset and I was up and running!

All my daughter’s stuff got deleted, but the EEE PC is back!

She must have dropped it…how else could the RAM popped out?

By: Gavin Wilson

Gavin Wilson — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:32:16 +0000

Very useful. I hadn't tried to do any mods to Linux but somehow my Firefox had picked up a bug that made it unusable. A Netbook without a browser is almost useless. This video has fixed everything.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:30:27 +0000

WINE, I meant – WINE

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:28:53 +0000

This was very helpful. I got into a bit of a hole trying to install WIRE. Started getting error messages and decided I should probably do a factory restore. Your post and video were both reassuring and informative. Thank you.

I need WIRE to access Audacity on my flash drive and still haven't figured out how to download it.

By: Kasper

Kasper — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:09:09 +0000

Have you done this with Windows XP installed? And wich version of Eee PC are you using? I can't get a F9-menu on my Eee 701 running XP.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:30:27 +0000

Okay, I trashed my linux install on my eee and freed up about 2 or 3 hours to reinstall it this evening to its factory settings… 2 minutes later and I’m done. I’m very very impressed with this feature. Thanks Kevin. Great vid.

I was about to buy myself a 4GB usb flash drive since my 1GB wasn’t big enough for the install from the DVD. I’m actually in shock at how fast that was. One very happy eee user here

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:12:47 +0000

Great, thanks! I had my eee for a week when DCOP server error messages started to show up. This video made it all work again. And within 5 minutes. Thanks again.

By: Billyo

Billyo — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:16:26 +0000

Fabulous - I have been fooling around with Linux (of which I know very little). the result was that I lost most of my icons - espec the nework one. So I was stuck as I did not know how to get on the network except by using the icons.
Now I know I can always get back to square one with F9

Thanks

By: Jhall

Jhall — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:01:28 +0000

You have a sdhc slot that can store 8gb and they are making them higher all the time. Online is great when you can be online. Also, have a local when servers go down.

By: paco

paco — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:33:43 +0000

What most of you don't realize is the f9 restore process on the eee pc doesn't actually do an image restore. It wipes the user partition and reboots. With nothing in the user partition, the system automatically launches into setup mode. This is akin to saying deleting everything in your Windows My Documents folder is sufficient to reimage your desktop pc's. Yes it is fast, but it is not in any way related to a full system partition restore.

By: DaveG

DaveG — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:41:38 +0000

Why not replace the standard reset image with a copy of your own image, including the apps you use? That way a 'factory reset' takes you back to where *you* want to be.

By: Mitchell Oke

Mitchell Oke — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:33:12 +0000

That's amazing! I have had Windows PCs in past that have taken longer to BOOT than that!