- Asus sonicmaster recovery serial number#
- Asus sonicmaster recovery install#
- Asus sonicmaster recovery serial#
Asus sonicmaster recovery serial#
Many years ago I talked with different support people and they all said that they had no list of COA stickers tied to serial numbers. Do you mean putting Pro stickers on machines with Home? I'm sure they do need to track that, yes. I'm not sure what you mean about an OEM mismatching stickers. As long as a BIOS check is run by the OEM disk that sticker just sits there, doing nothing. Start the recovery process by clicking YES on the system. You should confirm the target recovery partition and press NEXT Press NEXT after selecting I accept. The recovery process can be started by clicking NEXT. Select the Recover the OS to the Default Partition from the two radio button options and click on Next. Select the language from the dropdown menu and click on the Next button. The key on the sticker is never used unless the owner re-installs Windows using an OEM disk that does not have built in BIOS checking. When you see the ASUS logo after booting, keep pressing F9. Reboot your Asus laptop and continuously press the F9 button until you see an Asus recovery window. Once the machine gets to you it is NOT using the key on the sticker. I doubt those records are something general support staff would have access to though, it's probably buried in inventory and management logs nobody ever looks at outside an audit.ĭell was not the only one to use BIOS activation back in the XP days - HP did it, Toshiba did it, Sony did it, and I imagine others did too, but that doesn't really matter. Otherwise the OEM could intentionally or accidentally be mismatching installs & stickers. Not for support reasons, but for auditing reasons should they ever need to prove to Microsoft that XYZ key was assigned and shipped with ABC serial numbered device. Once the machine gets to you, it's using that key on the sticker.Īs for them keeping track, they'd be remiss not to. The point is that when you hit F9 on an ASUS with a removed factory Recovery partition youll have a BSOD and a destroyed BCD every time (you have to repair boot process every time, easy to do anyway.).
Asus sonicmaster recovery install#
Thats the thing, there is no built-in key going back to Vista except for Dell BIOSes, the sticker was the install key hence the problem. for win 10, it has the built-in 'reset' or one can make a recovery usb as suggested by Justin. The sticker gets applied at the factory, yes, but I can't remember ever hearing about an OEM keeping track of the key itself. There was no reason for them to, so why would they? The factory install uses a built in key, not the one on the sticker, so the key on the sticker means nothing to them. Use 'Full Scan' to recover data - my laptop ASUS SonicMaster is not booting from a bootable USB which can not be found with 'undelete' and 'unformat' and 'recover partition',after showing an error,display as raw file system,unformatted,unknown partition,unpartitioned,needs to be formatted,or the file system is not exfat,not fat32,not ntfs.
Asus sonicmaster recovery serial number#
You *might* be able to fight with ASUS to pull the shipped key from the serial number in their database (assuming they keep them that long),