Win 10 woes

[Skuzzy]

Don't they have the software on the hard disk? https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1013065/

Does not help when the hard drive dies.  And you cannot/should not install the version from Microsoft as it does not come with all the drivers needed.  Been there, done that.

When the HD dies again, I am just tossing it into a landfill.

Have had to ship that think back to ASUS twice.  Once for a dead primary HD, and the other when Windows 10 bricked it.  It was $85.00 each time and ASUS had it for 2 weeks each time.

[Bizman]

Oh, didn't get that the hard disk had died.

As for installing the plain vanilla Microsoft version, shouldn't you be able to get the drivers from the Asus website and install them just as you would with a desktop? Or am I missing something here?

[Skuzzy]

Oh, didn't get that the hard disk had died.

As for installing the plain vanilla Microsoft version, shouldn't you be able to get the drivers from the Asus website and install them just as you would with a desktop? Or am I missing something here?

And that is great if you can get the network adapter to work, as it does not work with the OEM/retail version of any OS.  Or you can download them from another computer, and hope like heck the laptop has a CD/DVD player.

It is just a mess.  All this would be made trivial if they shipped the OS on a disc.

[Bizman]

Welcome to my world! That's why I prefer cloning even broken hard disks, hoping that at least the reinstall partition would be intact.

Funny though, the brick and mortar shops I co-operate with prefer a clean Microsoft installation. I'm positive they don't have any fancy <brand> driver packs for every build. Another computer and a USB stick, or a USB optical drive. Takes quite a long time and some of the support sites are less than stellar. - Acer has a nice feature if you're using the to-be-reinstalled computer: Since there can be several options for many built-in devices, they have an app sniffing what's inside your system. I find it a lot less intrusive than some one-click-fix-all program you can't even find after installing it.