![]() ![]() Solution discovered after this current disaster:ĪSUS has a utility called ASUS Backtracker. (Including actual sitting time at ASUS before they get the tablet to the front of their repair queue.) That’s a three-week turnaround in the Continental US via FedEx Ground. So, if Win 10 MS Updates ever corrupts the OEM WIM File, you are forced to send back the tablet to ASUS (your shipping is your expense) and negotiate a Factory Reset repair (covered under ASUS Warranty only for about a year). I had extracted the Windows License Key from the Windows/System32 Config folder with NirSoft’s ProduKey, and this appeared to be a valid Win 8.1 Product Key, according to Microsoft Phone Activation Support.Īnd the Installer accepted the Key, then declared that it could not proceed because it could not connect the License Key with any available Recovery WIM. That’s when I used the Win 8.1 Install DVD obtained from my local Microsoft Store, in an attempt to reinstall the OS to the tablet. A BSOD declared that “a required device cannot connect”. But in this condition, the tablet would not boot. I had imaged this Partition with EaseUS ToDo Backup, then later restored it with the EaseUS WinPE 5 Recovery USB Media. This manufacturer (and they are not alone) has their tablets rigged so that even the donwloaded Windows 8.1 ISO burn of the generic DVD installer, will not proceed to reinstall Windows until it can “connect” with the original Factory OEM WIM File in the origginal Recovery Partition. Only after the disaster, I found in the Transformer Forums what had (probably) gone wrong. I just had a bad experience with losing the Factory Reset OEM Recovery Partition on my ASUS Transformer Book t100ta. ![]() Updating Win 10 can on most tablets, permanently alter the Recovery OEM WIM File. When Microsoft releases a less-than-stellar patch (it will) and the cannon fodder starts screaming (they will), let’s see how quickly, and how well, Microsoft reacts.”īTW, on tablets, it’s not just the forced updates which can be a worry. “Let’s see if any really bad patches roll out the Windows 10 chute.
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