Eee PC 1000H Recovery from USB Flash   Drive

Published October 15, 2008 Guides 230   Comments Tags: Eee PC 1000H, Ghost, Recovery

This guide will show you how to restore the Eee PC 1000H (with Windows XP Home SP3) to factory default without the use of an external DVD-Drive. There is also no need to build a BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) from an Original Windows XP CD.

Prerequisites

All you need is:

a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage the original ASUS 1000H XP Support DVD WinRAR PeToUSB

I’ve tested this guide with a 32-bit version of Windows XP. A 64-bit version of Windows Vista can not be used!

You will find nearly everything you need on the 1000H XP Support DVD. The most important files are:

WINPE.ISO (in the root directory of the DVD) EEEPCAH.GHO (in the “Recovery” folder of the DVD)

WINPE.ISO contains a lightweight version of Windows XP, called WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) and can be booted for example from an USB Flash Drive. It also contains the file GHOST32.EXE, which actually is version 11.0 of the well known backup software Symantec Ghost.

EEEPCAH.GHO contains the image of the complete hard disk after factory install and can be restored using Symantec Ghost.

WinRAR will extract the content from WINPE.ISO to the hard disk. WinZip or 7-zip may also be used (not tested).

PeToUSB will format the USB Flash Drive, make it bootable and then copy the extracted files from WINPE.ISO to the drive.

1. Extract all files from WINPE.ISO

Create a new folder with the name WINPE in the root directory of a drive. In my example i will use drive D:\.

Open WinRAR and select the file WINPE.ISO from the Support DVD.

Click “Extract To” and choose D:\WINPE as destination path. Click “OK” and all files from WINPE.ISO will be extracted.

2. Choose Symantec Ghost as start application

This step is very important to start Ghost automatically after booting into the Windows Preinstallation Environment from the USB Flash Drive.

Doubleclick to open the file WINPESHL.INI located in D:\WINPE\I386\SYSTEM32 and change …

[launchApp]AppPath=x:\EPCRecover.exe

… to …

[launchApp]AppPath=x:\GHOST32.EXE

… and save the changes (Command: File > Save). Do not save the file under a new name or in another folder!

3. Format USB Flash Drive and copy files

Connect a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage to your PC and start PeToUSB. It should show up under Destination Drive. Check USB Removable, Enable Disk Format and Enable File Copy. Finally browse to the Source Path of the WinPE files, in this example located at D:\WINPE.

Click “Start” and answer the following two questions “Continue?” with “Yes”.

All existing volumes and data will be lost!

Depending on the write speed of your USB Flash drive it may take a while to copy all WinPE files. If everything goes well, the message “Operation Completed Successfully!” should appear. Click “OK” and close PeToUSB.

4. Copy image file

Copy the image file EEEPCAH.GHO from the “Recovery” folder on the 1000H XP Support DVD into the root directory of the USB Flash Drive. This may also take a while because the file size is 2.53GB.

5. Recovery process

Connect the USB Flash Drive to your Eee PC and turn on the Eee. Press “ESC” at the boot screen and you will be able to select the USB Flash Drive as your boot device from the boot menu.

After booting from USB Flash Drive, WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) should start and finally Symantec Ghost.

Click “OK” and then “Local > Disk > From Image”. From the pulldown menu on the top choose your USB Flash Drive. It should be drive X:, because Windows assigned this drive letter during boot up. From here you can choose the image file EEEPCAH.GHO.

Now you have to select the destination drive. Of course this should be the Eee PCs hard drive. For my 1000H it’s drive 1 and the size is 76319MB. Please make sure to select the correct drive!

The next window will show you the destination drive details. Here you can change the partition layout or just click “OK” to keep the default settings. There will be one last question “Proceed with disk restore?”. If you click “Yes”, the process will be started.

The destination drive will be permanently overwritten.All existing volumes and data will be lost!

After the restore process is finished, you have to reboot the Eee PC.

Notes:

This guide should only be used for the ASUS Eee PC 1000H with Windows XP and cannot be extended to other models because of the different storage solutions ( one or two SSDs, one HDD). The name(s) of the image file(s) in the “Recovery” folder on the Support DVD are also different.

Disclaimer:I can not be held responsible for data loss or any damage to your hardware!

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230 Responses to “Eee PC 1000H Recovery from USB Flash Drive”

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1. 1 KTC October 18, 2008 at 4:39 am

You, Sir, are my hero! You have saved me money, and this works brilliantly. The key is to follow your helpful guide very methodically. So easy a caveman could do it! Cheers and kudos!

2. 2 qwertyyy October 18, 2008 at 8:59 pm

almost perfect… i follow the step 100%.eeepc 901 + winXP

when i startup using USB, the black screen said

‘Remove media …’Press Any Key to restart

if i press any key, it will continue boot from ssd (winXP)

what should i do now..

3. 3 Andreas October 19, 2008 at 7:54 am

@ qwertyyy

I always got the same error when i try to make the USB key bootable on my desktop with Windows Vista 64-bit.

I didn’t test it with Windows Vista 32-bit and Windows XP 64-bit.

I think it works only under Windows XP 32-bit.

4. 4 Ferdio October 19, 2008 at 11:39 am

lol thanx for this saved me money i was gonna to my computer store and pay them to do this but this is the easiest thing ive ever done

stupid cousin brought gamnes that have virus in it

5. 5 Komrad October 25, 2008 at 9:54 am

I don’t happen to have a large enough USB drive but I do have a 4GB SDHC card which happens to be about 7 MB short of copying the entire disc over. PetoUSB won’t detect the card so is there an alternative for my situation?

For many reasons I’m not willing or able to spend cash on a bigger drive or external optical drive just to facilitate this.

Thanks for your help.

6. 6 limubear October 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm

Hi this is the most informative guide and simplest compared to the 3-4 guides I have found on the internet.

Thank you for this!!!

I have followed your instructions however I am stuck after the pointwhere I have to chose the image file “EEEPCAH.GHO”.

Symantec Ghost unfortunately is telling me the “EEEPCAH.GHO” image corrupt (I’ve tested it at ‘Test’ option as well to confirm this)

Do I have to contact Asus support to get a new recovery DVD? Or can you advise?

Thank you!!!

7. 7 Andreas October 27, 2008 at 11:11 am

@ Komrad

You can also try to use a 256MB USB Flash drive for the boot files and copy only the ghost image to the SDHC card.

@ Limubear

Did you try to copy the ghost file again to your USB Flash drive? Sometimes this can happen during file copy. Or maybe check the Original file from the DVD.

8. 8 limubear October 27, 2008 at 6:24 pm

Hi Andreas!

Thank you I will try your advice!

WIll get back to you on this.

I actually contacted ASUS support but the guy was hopeless and said“you cant boot from a usb pen”

…

9. 9 limubear October 28, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Hi andreas!

It worked! thank you!!!

10. 10 omid October 29, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Thank you for your worthy work.I have got Eee pc 1000H in Sweden. It means that windows is Swedish! I wonder if I can substitute its Swedish windows with an English windows during process of making this recovery USB memory. Could you please give me some information about it.

11. 11 Echoes October 30, 2008 at 5:59 am

Hey, thank you VERY much from Italy… I’ll have to send you a postcard, or maybe a real pizza

Your guide is perfect, only one thing to add: what to do if your usb memory/sd card is REALLY big… I had an 8 gb pendrive from Oregon, and PetoUSB didn’t recognize it (right, he wants a FAT16 drive so it must be less than 2 gb)…so, if you have my problems, just follow the steps in “http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9668&pid=64223&start=0&#entry64223″ and you’ll be fine.

For those who are not really familiar with what they’ll be doing:the link above is teaching you to boot from a BIG usb drive, but you STILL HAVE to copy the right files on the usb stick! That means, you’ll have to tell PetoUSB to copy the files from the WINPE extracted iso, and then you still have to copy the EEEPCAH.GHO to the stick… hope I stated it clearly, it’s a bit late at the moment and my English is heavily dependant on my sleepyness

Maybe the author (and I have to thank you once again for your great work) could update this guide so it will be more easy to understand what to do in such a case

Greetings from Italy…

12. 12 Yves November 2, 2008 at 2:35 am

I used this technique with success to install XP onto my 701 from an ASUS XP restore DVD using a 2gb USB flash drive.

I’ve been searching for months for a technique to install using a USB flash drive and this technique is the only one that has worked for me.

13. 13 Andreas November 2, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Sorry guys for my late answer, but i spent a few days on a small island here in Thailand with linmited internet access.

@ omid

Actually you can use any language of Windows XP that you want. I bought my 1000H here in Thailand with an english version of Windows XP and i installed a german version of XP because its my native language.

The problem is that the original Recovery DVD will contain only the same swedish version of Windows XP you use now.

So if you want to install the english version you have to look for an english Windows XP Setup CD.

14. 14 limubear November 2, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Hi andreas

just read your reply“So if you want to install the english version you have to look for an english Windows XP Setup CD.”

Thank you once again for your instructions.

I didnt like the pre-installed software that was on the “EEEPCAH.GHO” (or the factory default settings).

So I was wondering how to clean install from an english windows xp on the eee pc 1000H.

Can I make a ‘ghost’ of my win xp cd? if so what about the drivers?

thank you!

ps wat island of thailand are you on? koh samui?

15. 15 Spammy Ninja November 4, 2008 at 3:00 am

You saved me for $100. I was going to buy an external DVD burner but this worked perfectly.

To get into the BIOS, I needed to press “F2″ for my version of EEE PC (1000H 160G). ESC doesn’t work.

Anyway, it’s a great tutorial. A+! extra credit! tips!

16. 16 limubear November 4, 2008 at 4:24 am

You actually can just used you existing internal DVD rom (if you had one) and get a ‘magic cable’ to connect it to your eee pc.

this is what i had to do when I was unable to copy the eeepcah.gho file to my usb pen

17. 17 vcko November 5, 2008 at 3:09 am

Hi,I have a problem with PeToUSB: It doesn’t read my 4GB USB flash drive. I already try with two different ones (Sony MicroVault and Kingston DataTraveler). It just say “No USB Disk Found!”.Please help me!

18. 18 oddbear November 6, 2008 at 3:55 am

Works with a 2gb Gizmo! Jr. as startupdrive, and a sandisk cruzer 8gb with the EEEPCAH.GHO file on it

19. 19 Valentina November 6, 2008 at 4:53 am

how about eeepc 900?i haven’t got EEEPCAH.GHO but EEEPC1.GHO and EEEPC2.GHO !what i need to do?thank you in advance! (:

20. 20 Manolis November 6, 2008 at 7:32 pm

I bought the 1000H with Greek XP. Is there a way to install English windows with this method? Do I need an original English XP disk? Other laptops ask for the language when you turn them on *for the first time*.

Can someone give me more details?

Thanks in advance!

21. 21 Anson November 7, 2008 at 8:41 pm

I keep failing at the step of PeToUSB, which is to format my Pendrive, it keep saying this “Source Path Doesn’t Appear To Be A Valid BartPE Install!” Need some help here…please…

22. 22 WilliamB November 9, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Hi Andreas , I also live i Thailand and I am looking at buying my first Netbook, with my past experiences with customer after care here in Thailand I am a bit concerned as to what to expect from Asus , especially if I need to use the after care service , while the computer was still under warranty, I wondered if the Asus customer after care was some thing you had thought about ? if so could you please comment on this subject Thanks ⬇

William

23. 23 George November 10, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Asus the best of the best!

24. 24 Andreas November 15, 2008 at 12:58 pm

@ WilliamB

I cannot tell you anything about ASUS Customer After Care here in Thailand, because i didn’t have any problems yet with my products from ASUS. My 1000H is the second netbook from ASUS. Before i used the Eee PC 701 (4G) for some months.

The most important thing in my opinion is the dealer where you will by the netbook or any other product here, because this is the first person you have to talk to if you have any problems.

Customer After Care in general is a little bit “underdeveloped” here in Thailand.

25. 25 Mob November 19, 2008 at 10:49 am

It worked just perfectly and smoothly on my eee pc 701 without any problem. Everything just worked as you described here. The best recovery process for eee pc on internet. Thanks a lot

26. 26 Andreas November 19, 2008 at 7:18 pm

@ Mob

Can you tell me the name of the image file for the Eee PC 701, e.g. xxxxxx.gho ?

Thanks,Admin

27. 27 Jerremmie November 19, 2008 at 10:40 pm

just wanna ask if i could install the “windows xp my own version” with this technique…

because i had a installer named “windows xp essentials” and i really love the skins and add on application in this OS…

i wish to put “windows xp essentials” on my 1000H… is this possible?

thank you

28. 28 Jerremmie November 19, 2008 at 10:41 pm

^^^^if yes, would pls teach me?

29. 29 kelvin November 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm

Andreas, i was wondering if i could use this on my 701 4g. the system files just got corrupted recently and i really need to fix it soon.

Thanks

30. 30 Andreas November 20, 2008 at 6:34 pm

@ Jerremmie

No, this technique you can only use to recover your Eee with an image file from the Support DVD.

But you can follow my guide “WinSetupFromUSB – Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive”. If you have “Windows XP Essentials” as CD, you can give it a try.

Admin

31. 31 Andreas November 20, 2008 at 6:38 pm

@ Kelvin

You can use it for your 701 if you have the Support DVD from ASUS. Only the name of the image file in the folder “Recovery” on the DVD should be different.

A few comments earlier “Mob” said that it worked on his 701.

Admin

32. 32 James November 23, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Hey

I get all the way to the step of clicking on EEPCAH.GHO during the GHOST application and it gives me the error of

“Read sector failure, result =1, drive = 0, sector 132271 to 132335″

would you know what that means?

cheers

33. 33 Andreas November 24, 2008 at 8:23 am

@ James

It seems that there’s a read error on drive 0. As i remember, drive 0 should be the USB drive and drive 1 the hard drive.

If the USB drive is drive 0, there’s something wrong with the files on it. You can try to delete only the ghost file and copy it again, or start form the beginning.

You can also try to test the image file with Ghost.

Admin

34. 34 ticiano November 26, 2008 at 4:34 am

HELLO PAL, i really need your help!

i tried to use to pe to usb but an error occurs to format the pendrive (a fat 32 8 gb pen drive) so i’ve tried to use a fat 16 2gb pen drive and it goes well but then it does not have space for the recovery EEEPCAH.GHO, so what should i do?thx a lot

35. 35 Andreas November 26, 2008 at 8:06 am

@ ticiano

If you have both sticks at hand, use the 2gb usb drive to boot and copy the ghost image file to the 8gb drive.

Connect both usb drives to the eee, boot up from the 2gb drive and in ghost choose the image file on the 8gb drive.

It should work.

Admin

36. 36 SZA November 30, 2008 at 1:10 am

omg…ur genius guide (and my brother’s thumb drive) saved me from getting kick a$$ (cuz i bought this eee pc for my uncle, not mine) i juz bought this EEE PC 1000H today..and after installing some softwares (google earth, gtalk, vzochat, opera, firefox, avast, language software) and after i restarted computer, it was freezing..dammit..i googled alot and found this god-given-perfect guide..i was thinkin to contact asus service support on Monday though (today is saturday )thanks a zillion..

37. 37 ticiano December 3, 2008 at 8:59 am

Andreas

thanks a lot for the help man! that was so simple and yet so genius!worked just fine to use two different pen drives!!best regards!!!

38. 38 T Munk December 7, 2008 at 6:13 am

I’ve successfully used this process with my EEEPC 904HA, with a 4gb Memorex USB Pen. One nice thing is that the 904HA ghost file is only 1.7gb (EEEPC-ENG.GHO) which leaves almost half the drive free for the install files for other applications I want to install as well. Maybe that’s because they no longer seem to include OpenOffice on the 904′s anymore.

Excellent tutorial, many thanks!

39. 39 pietari-poika December 9, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Hi! I managed to do this with my Eee PC 901 12GB. I just simply clicked Local->Disk->From Image->EEEPC1.GHO and did the process for the smaller SSD. After that, I clicked continue, then again Local->Disk->From Image, but this time I chose EEEPC2.GHO and then the secondary SSD.

Works just great! Thanks!

P.S. Sorry for my bad english, I’m from Finland.

40. 40 LakisFM1 December 11, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Yesterday i installed a XP HOME ENG OEM SP2 version with my MACHINE-KEY all ok (updated then to SP3 and all other updates).

The machine was with windows GREEK.

RETAIL version of XP HOME doesn’t get the key , search for a OEM version.

unfortuanately i didn’t find the ENG RESTORE DVD on the net , so i put a generic OEM version.

Pity someone hasn’t put in the ENG recovery DVD in torrent yet

41. 41 LakisFM1 December 11, 2008 at 9:22 pm

forgot to say that it needed to activate online , i did the activation with no problem.

42. 42 LakisFM1 December 11, 2008 at 9:25 pm

oh and one thing more.during my tests when i restored the machine with the included dvd , the key it installed as NOT my key, surely the restore DVD contains a -generic OEM key- and not the actual for every single user.

So don’t worry if you put giveaway the dvd , it doesn’t include your key.

43. 43 OOQO December 15, 2008 at 10:27 am

Finally,It’s work, it needs windoes XP, There is no way to do it under Windows Vista !!!! It kills me till work.

Thnak you so much, you save a lot of work.

44. 44 clos December 21, 2008 at 1:41 am

Worked on my 1000HA as well!Wish i had found this link sooner.Thank you so much!!!

45. 45 Misterix December 26, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Thanks so much six a great.Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Italy.

46. 46 Postal76 December 28, 2008 at 6:22 am

On my 1000HA, I keep getting either a “Read sector failure” error as James did or an “internal inconsistency error” in Ghost. Needless to say, I cannot perform the restore operation. Any thoughts?

47. 47 Andreas December 28, 2008 at 11:41 am

@ Postal76

How about the size of your USB drive? 4Gb or more?

Can you try to test the image file with Ghost. If Ghost gives you any errors, delete the image file on the USB drive and copy it over again.

Sometimes it’s better to copy the image file from the DVD to the hard drive first and then from the hard drive to the USB drive.

Also consider to check the original image file from the DVD for errors. You can run GHOST32.EXE under Windows by doubleclicking on it.

Admin

48. 48 Postal76 December 29, 2008 at 2:16 am

Andreas,

Thank you for your suggestions. I originally used an 8GB Cruzer Micro usb drive to boot and to store the image file, but that resulted in the errors I mentioned above. The Ghost integrity check on the image file passed.

I thought that maybe PEtoUSB didn’t like my 8GB drive being formatted as NTFS (the only way my 1000HA would boot from it), so I’m now using a 1GB lenovo USB drive (FAT16) to boot and the 8GB Cruzer (FAT32) to store the image file. The image file again passes Ghost’s integrity check, but I get a “Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, …” error immediately upon running the restore process.

Is it possible that my hard drive is failing?

49. 49 Javier December 29, 2008 at 3:54 am

Very good job.

Thank you very much.

Javier (Spain)

50. 50 Ainkor December 29, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Good job for this guide!

I spent hours messing with others guides and yours was the best by far. Thanks!

51. 51 Kulotski December 30, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Your suggestion is really brilliant, used it yesterday and works great. Thanks you so much!Just one question, is there a way that the files from the D drive(2nd partition) will not be deleted when doing the recovery? I saved all my files from the D drive before assuming that if in case my OS will be corrupted i will still have my files intact.

52. 52 Andreas December 31, 2008 at 12:10 pm

@ Kulotski

Someone told me, that he used “Local > Partition > From Image” instead of “Local > Disk > From Image” and that he could choose to restore only the C or D Drive on his hard disk.

But i cannot confirm this method because i didn’t try it yet.

Admin

53. 53 Sureoot January 2, 2009 at 10:48 pm

From your guide:

* a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage

and

* PeToUSB

I ran into a problem with this combination and had to do some reasearch to find out why. It looks like PeToUSB only formats with FAT 16, which is limited to 2 GB.

How did you get PeToUSB to format your 4 GB drive?

54. 54 Harkaway January 3, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Just a quick note to say thanks for this great guide. It is so clear that I was able to reinstall XP from the removable drive, saving me the cost of an external CD/DVD burner.

Instead I bought a cheap 4 GB removable drive and it worked beautifully. (And I got to repartition the hard disk!)

Thanks for taking the time to write this guide.

55. 55 Andreas January 4, 2009 at 9:43 am

@ Sureoot

I can format my 4GB drive with PeToUSB without any issues. However, if you format a 4GB drive with FAT16, it results in 64KB cluster size. That may give you some problems.

Maybe the results are different between different USB drives.

Admin

56. 56 Darius January 8, 2009 at 2:07 am

You sir are a genius. Much respects for this guide.

57. 57 Darius January 8, 2009 at 5:54 am

If you get the following error on boot:

REPLACE MEDIAPRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART..

Don’t use Vista to create the bootable USB. You will need XP.In my case, the PEtoUSB program did not create a proper bootable USB using Vista 64-bit.

58. 58 CJ January 8, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Hey guys,

i just wished to know if this would work if i had Windows XP Professional SP3 installed on my 1000H.

Hoping for a quick reply. Thanking you,

CJ

59. 59 Andreas January 9, 2009 at 7:50 am

@ CJ

It doesn’t matter which OS is installed, because the hard drive will be overwritten completely.

But if you recover the 1000H from your Original Support DVD, you will get Windows XP Home Edition SP3.

Hope this helps.

Admin

60. 60 y0lorenzo January 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm

i’ve been making the WINPE folder on my desktop, using a kingston 8gb microSD card with a usb adapter. petousb recognizes the card and gets to 100% in the format and says “FormatEx Error[11]: An Error Occurred Formating the Drive”. Help!?

61. 61 Andreas January 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm

@ y0lorenzo

Do you have any USB drives/SD Cards at hand with smaller size?

PeToUSB and 8GB drives or more can give errors because of FAT16 format.

You can also try to use a 256MB USB Flash drive for the boot files and copy only the ghost image to the SDHC card.

Admin

62. 62 Max January 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm

hii’ve used this guidebut after the windows preinstallation environment dont start the norton ghost , but the classic windows “loading” screen

why?

i use a sandisk cruzier 4gb

sorry for the english

63. 63 HIYA January 11, 2009 at 11:14 am

You can use a USB hard drive in XP if you want a single drive solution. I used a 160 gig simpletech mini usb hard drive. Make yourself familiar with diskpart as petousb cannot handle a drive this size. I used the following steps. Diskpart is run from a command line. I used f: drive but you can use any available drive letter.

diskpartlist diskselect disk 1cleancreate partition primaryselect partition 1activeassign letter=fexitformat the new usb hd f: drive as NTFScopy gho backup image to usb hdextract winpe iso to usb hdrename i386 directory to minintcopy f:\minint\ntdetect.com f:\copy f:\minint\setupldr.bin f:\ntldredit the contents of winpeshl.ini

64. 64 HIYA January 11, 2009 at 11:17 am

Oh yes, the XP diskpart only works on what XP thinks are local drives, such as a usb hard drive. It does not work on flash drives

65. 65 Victor January 13, 2009 at 10:58 am

Getting the same error here and I have done everything so far… using a 4GB usb…“Read sector failure, result = 1, drive = 0, sectors 131431 to 131495If this problem persists, contact Symantec Technical Support at http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/ ”

Any suggestion, Im driving my self crazy over this stuff..

66. 66 Andreas January 13, 2009 at 4:39 pm

@ Victor

Maybe your problem is the 64KB Cluster size if you use FAT16 on a 4GB drive. One solution can be:

Use two USB drives (if at hand):

One smaller drive (256MB, 512MB, 1GB or 2GB) formatted with PeToUSB in FAT16 and including WINPE

One 4GB (or more) formatted in FAT32 including only the GHOST Image

Hope it helps

Admin

67. 67 Victor January 13, 2009 at 6:42 pm

It gives me same error im really desperate and frustrated… You have any idea what is giving me the problem?

68. 68 Victor January 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Ohh an really thanks for the support your are giving me… I forgot to say with the overwhelming sadness with this brand new screwed laptop :S

69. 69 vcko January 14, 2009 at 10:35 am

Hi, I try the PeToUSB with a 512MB USB drive and it still not recognize it. It says “No USB disks found!” Is there another program that I can use?thanks in advance

70. 70 Florent January 17, 2009 at 10:32 pm

Thanks, this topic helped me to reinstall my EEEPC900 XP from the Ghost images (there are 2 ghost for each SSD) and USB key.I had tried many other methods but none worked, until yours!Thanks again,Florent

71. 71 thn January 21, 2009 at 2:36 am

Hi i have a problem, PetoUSB dont recognize my usb flash drive (kigston datatraveler 8gb) formated on ntfs and fat32 dont recognize it (dont have fat16 option) any ideas?

72. 72 gap January 27, 2009 at 2:37 am

I, Like Victor, have a similar problem … I’ve successfully used PetoUSB to copy the WINPE folder onto it … but I’m unsuccessful in copying to a 16Gb usb key (Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 usb)

For the ghost image, do I need to use PeToUSB? or just do a regular format through windows and copy the image from the support CD to the USB?

Then when I boot from USB, I boot from the 2gb USB (one with WINPE) and when do I switch to the Ghost file?

Thanks.

73. 73 gap January 27, 2009 at 2:50 am

ok, so I tried the first file … I got to the symantic ghost screen … I guess this is where I switch my USB’s? And since I can’t use PeToUSB to copy the ghost file … I’ll try copying straight to the USB (copy>paste) and see what happens …

74. 74 michael January 29, 2009 at 7:28 am

Please help me guys

I tried to do this with my eee pc 1000h but always result to “application error”. what is the best solution for this? is there any other way to re-format my pc without paying at customer center?

thanks in advance..

75. 75 Andreas January 29, 2009 at 8:18 am

@ michael

When do you get “application error”. When working with PeToUSB or when trying to recover your 1000H?

Also, what about the size of your USB drive? 4GB or more?

Admin

76. 76 michael January 29, 2009 at 10:02 am

thanx for the quick reply

I had used 4GB USB. I got application error when recovering my 1000h.it usually happens at step 5, during recovery process

77. 77 Victor January 29, 2009 at 11:22 am

I just took the HD out and plug it into my desktop, from there I ran the DVD and after all was installed, I install it into the laptop.. it worked perfectly… there is a youtube video explaining how to change HD in the asus… good luck.

78. 78 Andreas January 29, 2009 at 11:42 am

@ michael

Ok, next questions:

After booting from USB, does the WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) start and after that Symantec Ghost?

If Ghost doesn’t start, did you follow step 2 and choose Symantec Ghost as startup application. Check the file WINPESHL.INI for this line:

[launchApp]AppPath=x:\GHOST32.EXE

Admin

79. 79 thn January 29, 2009 at 3:11 pm

@ Victor this voids waranty?

80. 80 michael January 29, 2009 at 3:30 pm

We have successfully go tru until step 5 but during the recovery process. It stopped at file javaws.jar with an error message “Application Error”.

81. 81 Andreas January 29, 2009 at 4:49 pm

@ michael

Try to check the image file for errors.

Instead of Local > Disk > From Imagechoose Local > Check > Image Fileand see if there are any errors.

Maybe you have to start over from the beginning.

Admin

82. 82 michael January 30, 2009 at 5:35 pm

there are no errors using check > image file

83. 83 Roy January 30, 2009 at 6:14 pm

Thank you. I probed the net for weeks to find one good write up on the matter. I own a 904HA and will try if this can work out. Some other I tried earlier did not work.

84. 84 andy February 5, 2009 at 4:52 am

I am having a problem getting my eee to boot from a usb or dvd drive. I press esc multiple times when windows is booting up but can’t get into the screen where it gives you options on where to boot from. any suggestions?

85. 85 thn February 5, 2009 at 3:10 pm

Press F2 to enter BIOS and chenge it from there.

86. 86 Andreas February 5, 2009 at 3:24 pm

@ andy

You have to press ESC several times almost simultaneously when switching on the eee. I think your Boot Booster is enabled. Then its not easy to get the bootmenu or to get into the BIOS with F2.

Andreas

87. 87 Gemma February 10, 2009 at 1:32 pm

This is such a brilliant guide but I simply cannot get it to work. My 1000H randomly started BSODing on me after an Avast Antivirus update and since then deteriorated. It’s only a few weeks old! I made the USB drive (4GB) and put the image file on (with copy /v from command prompt to avoid any corruption) and checked it with Ghost but it still says the image is corrupted when I try to recover! Help me! And thanks to anyone who does help!

88. 88 Frenzchy February 11, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Yes, it worked!Without any problem.Very clearly described process.Thanks a lot

89. 89 Casey February 14, 2009 at 7:10 am

For anyone who’s having trouble getting the bootup screen, press F2 when you start and then turn of Boost Enabler and then try it. That’s what I had to do at least. thx for the guide!

90. 90 Javier February 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Andreas, thank you because your work. I can´t complete the process in a 8GB USB Flash Drive because PeToUSB always answer me with a format problem. What can I do?

Thanks. Javier

91. 91 Crystal Red Shrimp Food February 16, 2009 at 12:39 am

How many USB port a 1000H has?

92. 92 thn February 16, 2009 at 12:42 am

@Javier this wont work with a usb more than 4gig.

@Crystal Red Shrimp Food – 3 usb ports.

93. 93 Shaun February 17, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Seriously, best guide I’ve seen for re-installing from the recovery dvd without an optical drive.

94. 94 Arkay February 19, 2009 at 12:27 am

This works wonderful. Thank you so much. I used a 256MB flash drive to boot on and copied the ghost image to an existing USB hard drive and it works great. It is my emergency backup. I have used the hidden partition and done a re-ghosting by hitting F9 when it starts booting up and it runs

the ghost off the existing hardware. If this ever fails, I will use the flash drive to boot and reload.AWESOME! Thanks Again.

95. 95 Matiscus March 1, 2009 at 6:55 am

Hello

I have a little problem. I have a EEE PC 1000H. I installed Vista a weak ago but i want xp back on the EEE pc. I follow every step in this tutorial, but i get the message “remove media” “Press Any Key To Restart”. And it doesn’t work.

My desktop Pc is running Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit. I think that is the problem…? I have no PC at home where XP is installed.

What can I do?

Sorry for the bad english.

96. 96 Tiago March 2, 2009 at 11:17 am

Hi from Portugal!

Thanks for this great post!For you all out there, install the image, restart, make all windows updates, install all your programs (office, photoshop, anti-virus, etc) and update them. then restart with the pen, run ghost and create a new image.The next time you`ll need to recover the system, it will be ready to go, with all your favorite programs and updates

97. 97 ML March 4, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Andreas, thanks for publishing this — I can confirm that it *does not* work from 32bit vista, seemingly only 32bit XP as you suggested…

98. 98 Mark March 9, 2009 at 7:43 am

On my 1000H my taskbar and notification area are not working properly.Will this process fix this?

99. 99 Boothroyd March 13, 2009 at 8:44 am

IS there a way to recover without loosing all of your data on the D:\ ?

100. 100 yan March 19, 2009 at 3:16 pm

You saved my day. Simple & beautiful. Works with 901 too. Thanks.

101. 101 marcos March 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm

you are brilliant!!!! a lost a lot of time doing others things . perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!! marcos from brazil

102. 102 Michal March 24, 2009 at 12:27 am

It works perfect! Thanks.

103. 103 Sleaze March 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm

For those of you getting FormatEX error 11 because your drive is over 4gb, you can download a patched version of PeToUSB that formats your drive to NTFS instead of Fat16. Worked perfectly for me.

Thanks for the tutorial, by the way.

Patched PeToUSB: http://eaz.nm.ru/download/PeToUSB_3.0.0.8.zip

104. 104 michael March 28, 2009 at 11:22 am

Good afternoon guys..

I’ve got a problem with my eeepc 1000h

when i opened my eeepc, windows appeared, then white screen, then total black screen…I tried to re-open it but the same thing happen, total black screen, i cant even go to F2 for bios screen. can someone tell help me whats the problem of my eeepc? is there any possible solution for this before going to service centers??I tried to reformat it using this guide but it did not work out.

pls. help

thanks in advance!.

105. 105 JLB April 6, 2009 at 11:31 pm

Thank you Sir for the supply! All works good.Kind regards,JLB

106. 106 Angel Gris April 10, 2009 at 3:12 am

I tryed this on my Eee PC 1000HA with a 2Mb USB pendrive and really works.Thanks a lot.

Now I’ll try to install Debian on the second partition. Making the wireless work on Debian is an issue, but I’ll try anyway.

107. 107 Antonio April 14, 2009 at 5:59 am

Thank you so much, your great, safe my computer, thank you again

108. 108 Josef April 16, 2009 at 10:57 am

please help i get a fatal error blue screen!! after the winpe when Ghost wanna start to work i get the fatal error blue Screen ?!

109. 109 bossman April 18, 2009 at 11:50 am

I have foolowed these instructions to a tee several times, and when the usb stick boots I hang at the Windows loading screen after the pe environment loads….seems like the GHOST32.exe will not load despite following step 2

Any ideas???

110. 110 bossman April 18, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Addendum to above ….1000he eeepc

111. 111 Ben April 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Got it working with my Black 901. If you have a desktop/laptop with Vista and can still boot to XP on the netbook, what you can do is copy the files needed to the USB drive then to the hard drive, then copy the necessary ones back to the USB drive and boot it up. That’s what I had to do since both of my other laptops are running Vista. Thanks for the guide.

112. 112 Jin April 30, 2009 at 1:12 am

Thank you very much. My F9 wasn’t taking me to factory restore, and so was worried a bit. Came to your site, followed your instructions step by step, and I am presently restoring all things. Mine is 904ha, and so GHO file name is different, but it didn’t matter. I did follow another site’s recommendation that I copy the GHO file to my harddrive first and then copy it to my USB. I don’t know if that really mattered.

Thank you.

113. 113 NETBOOKIE May 1, 2009 at 11:04 pm

thanks this saved me time and money. also thanks to echo for the 8+gb fix.

114. 114 Baja May 2, 2009 at 6:03 am

Thanks for the guide! I can confirm it works for the 1000HE too. Although I did it with a 1GB pendrive (for winpe) and an external hdd (for the *.gho).Only one issue left… I’ve heard this was supposed to restore the factory reset partition, but it doesn’t seem to. Is there anything to do about that?

115. 115 Chunkzdamast May 4, 2009 at 1:18 am

For people having some errors I had heres what i did:

First of all you NEED a windows xp 32 bit machine, vista made usbs will not boot on the eee pc, itll say media not found press any key to continue.

If pressing escape doesnt bring up the boot select screen, power on and spamm the F2 key till bios come up and disable “boot booster” in the boot section. Then press f10 and exit. Shutdown computer and spam esc key and the boot select screen will come.

Thank you Andres this was very helpful and i hope i was able to help some people as well.

116. 116 Ryan Dlugosz May 6, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Dude – nice! I just sold my 1000H on eBay and needed to wipe/restore the drive. This guide worked great once I realized that you cannot make the USB drive via Vista (even V32). Well, you can make it but it just doesn’t work.

Anyway, I used the 1000H (which runs XP) to make the USB drive by sharing the restore media over the network & now I’m good to go. Ghost is imaging as we speak.

Thanks again. -Ryan

117. 117 Steve May 7, 2009 at 5:33 am

@Andreas

Hi!

Is PEtoUSB really able to format a 4GB key in FAT16 format ???The help file says USB keys > 2 GB are not detected…Did you use a special release ?What tool could I use to partition my 8GB key in two 4GB parts in FAT16 format ?

Regards,

Steve.

118. 118 Eastland May 7, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Using the PeToUSB 3.0.0.8 got me around the problem of formatting on an 8G SD or flash drive. Also, in Vista, in order for PeToUSB to see the USB device, you have to right click on the program and run as Administrator.

Getting past all those problems, I’m stuck with the problem of getting stopped with the Read Sector failure as some others have mentioned. I have not seen a solution for it yet.

119. 119 RON IN May 11, 2009 at 5:13 am

MY FRIEND YOU ARE A GENIUS. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I APRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. IT HELP ME OUT SO MUCH. NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO GO TO ASIA AND NEED A TOUR GUIDE. I’LL BE YOUR PRESONAL TOUR GUIDE FOR FREE AS MY APRECIATION.

120. 120 Steve May 12, 2009 at 4:35 am

Hi!

Finally, I used PeToUSB 3.0.0.8 to make my 8GB CORSAIR Flash Voyager key bootable : it works fine ! )This russian release allows to format key > 4GB in NTFS format and then to put the large ghost

image file (2.3GB).I managed to boot with my 8GB key, start WinPE, Ghost restoring tool and then test the integrity of the 2.3GB image file.

I submitted the main system files on the key to http://www.virustotal.com : all is clean !

PeToUSB 3.0.0.8 seems to be a nice & useful tool ! )

Regards,

Steve.

121. 121 Steve May 13, 2009 at 2:52 am

Hi!

FYI, I’ve tried to boot with my 8GB key, formated in NTFS, on a quite old computer (4 or 5 year-old): it couldn’t start.Obviously, the BIOS must me recent enough to support boot from USB key in NTFS format (or USB external hard drive).

Regards,

Steve.

122. 122 Giacomo May 13, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Hi,thx for this guide… really simple and well written.

Do u know something about NLITE?

How is possible make a lite copy of win home llighter?

I’ve read many forum and must make a copy of win with recovery cd…is ok… but I haven’t found nothing for recovery dvd of 1000h.

See u.

Giacomo

123. 123 Jaspie May 15, 2009 at 11:45 am

I need help here @_@ ~

I have followed all these steps ~ I am doing this on an EeePC 1000HD ~ When I turn on the EeePC….everything is fine…..it says it is loading WinPE but when it finishes loading…..it just jumps back to the Windows XP screen and loads Windows ~

HELP please ~

Jaspie ~

124. 124 Steve May 16, 2009 at 2:31 am

Hi Jaspie !

Did you check in BIOS, by pressing F2 key, that the 1st attempt on boot is done on your USB device ?

What is the size of your USB key ?What format? FAT16?What release of PEtoUSB ?

Steve

125. 125 Steve May 16, 2009 at 4:40 am

Hi Andreas,

Your guide is very helpful but to reach perfection, what about updating it with these suggestions:

”All you need is:* a USB Flash Drive with at least 4GB of storage…”You should write “at MOST 4GB” and that sizes between 256KB and 2GB give better chance to boot because PEtoUSB 3.0.0.7 FAT16 limitation.

You should say that PEtoUSB 3.0.0.7 can officialy handle at most 2GB keys and some bigger one (4GB max)seem to be sometimes detected and sometimes not, according to witnesses.

You should add that PEtoUSB 3.0.0.8 (from russian site http://eaz.nm.ru/download/PeToUSB_3.0.0.8.zip ) can format > 2GB keys in NTFS and make them bootable that allows you to use only one big key instead of one small one to start WinPE and another one to store the Ghost image (can be > 4GB ).

I hope it helps…

Regards,

Steve.

126. 126 Dave May 16, 2009 at 11:45 pm

Hi!

Many thanks for a very helpful guide. My wife’s 4 month old Netbook is now working again, having got hung up on the mup.sys problem. There are many articles on the web on how to

overcome it, but this is the only one I’ve found that works for Asus 1000H users.Now I’ve found this site, I’ll certainly be browsing it regularly in future.

Thanks again

Regards

Dave

127. 127 Steve May 22, 2009 at 4:24 am

Hi!

To make a FAT32 bootable USB stick, very useful for sizes > 2GB, see this great tool :

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702

Thanks Fuwi !

See also my post on page 12 of the thread.

Regards,

Steve

128. 128 CALEXIco. May 23, 2009 at 10:31 am

Thank you!

You just saved my life!

129. 129 anton May 23, 2009 at 8:51 pm

This guide is great. I have restored my eee 1000h to factory settings twice over the last couple of years using the instructions detailed on this page. The only modification I had done is to use 2 USB pen drives (a 1-Gb pen to boot the pre-installation environment from and an 8-Gb pen to load EEEPC.GHO from after the pre-installation environment and ghost32.exe are already running). Works like a charm.

Many thanks from the Philippines! I hope to find equally great guides in the future.

130. 130 nartu May 27, 2009 at 6:41 am

really great, many thanks for this tuto!

I used a 8gb key, PeToUSB_3.0.0.8.exe, and so install the xp image (EEEPC-FRN.GHO) of my eeepc 1002HA… on a new 500gb hard drive!

it runs ok on the first trial!

good job, happy to read it, nartu.

131. 131 tomasz May 29, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Great!The easiest way to do that.

I DO owe you:)

132. 132 Richard ataloss May 29, 2009 at 4:50 pm

I have followed the instructions to the letter however my 1000H XP Support DVD Rev2.0 does not have the file WINPESHL.INI. It does have WINPWSHL.DLL with the same content which I amended on the assumption…. needless to say the boot from my USB does not work. After several days of trying to find someone else with my original problem without success I decided to restore to factory settings. That idea is not working so well either.

133. 133 Pino June 5, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Grazie mille, tutto ha funzionato alla perfezione anche se il programma PeToUSB era in tedesco (ma con le foto si comprendeva tutto lo stesso). Io avevo l’Asus 1000H con XP, cambiava soltanto il nome del file formato.GHO nella mia cartella Recovery sul cd in dotazione. Grazie ancora da quel di Treviso – Italy (5 giugno 2009)

134. 134 Faisal June 6, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Any idea how to restore win xp on one partition instead of whole drive? i have ubuntu on the other partition while data on the third.thanks.

135. 135 ADITYA June 10, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Thanks|

i will try this. hope this will work

136. 136 T.S. Graham June 11, 2009 at 10:15 am

Thank you for sharing this! You just saved me!

137. 137 aditya June 11, 2009 at 10:29 am

sir,

i did all the process but after put the pen drive in pc for bootafter win xp boot logo there is BLUE SCREEN OF DETH comes.

Please help

138. 138 James June 16, 2009 at 1:21 am

I live in Spain and just bought a new Eee PC 1000H. It’s really great, but the Windows XP is in Spanish (I can read Spanish, but being English, I prefer to work in my native language of English).

I have my original XP disk in English and have created a Slipstream disk with SP3. I’ve rigged-up a Plextor DVD drive to a USB port, and set the boot priority to that drive. The install starts well, but before the HD partition options appear, I get a “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME” error.

I’ve re-created the install disk using 3 different methods in case the problem was there, and I’ve even created a version on a bootable USB stick, but I always get the same error.

Searching the web, it looks like many people have encountered this error message, but I can’t find any workable solutions, or confident explanations of the cause.

Any help would be appreciated.

James.

139. 139 TurionAltec June 18, 2009 at 5:57 am

re: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If your BIOS has an option for SATA / AHCI mode, set it to “IDE” and not “AHCI.

Try different USB ports / drives?

140. 140 Rômulo ( from Brasil ) June 25, 2009 at 6:20 am

thank you very much!it works like a charm!

141. 141 Radu June 28, 2009 at 1:45 am

Hello,

Thank you for your work!

It worked fine on EEE PC 901 with 2 SSD.As mentioned before, you have to use Image to partition option and direct the 2 .GHO files to their partition.I used a A-DATA My Flash 4GB pen drive.

Thank you is not enough!

142. 142 Viktoras Du June 30, 2009 at 2:32 am

Eeepc 904, windows xp 32bit worked like charm. Thanks!

143. 143 Bryan July 8, 2009 at 3:52 am

Hey everyone,

I have an eeepc 1000H, however, it does not include an recovery cd. What now ? How can I reinstall my windows eeepc XP ?

I did a complete format, so my whole hard drive is useless right now.

Could someone kindly help me out here ?

Sincerly,

Bryan

144. 144 Andre July 19, 2009 at 7:12 am

Hey everyone,

I have a problem, in (5. Recovery process) when choose de image EEEPCAH.GHO give me this error: the destination disk could not be locked (643).

How can I fix it.

Thanks anyway

145. 145 Speech Fixer July 25, 2009 at 5:15 am

I just did this perfectly. THANKS!! I have only one problem/question. I have the Eee PC 1005HAP that is set up at the factory with two partitions on one single hard drive. The first partition contains all of the apps and data. The second partition is empty and presumably there so one can store things. I have moved all of my data (ie My Documents) to the second partition for safe keeping. I would like to be able to use the USB flash Recovery process but my Recover DVD lists two ghost images. One is called EEEPC-ENG.gho and is 3.6 gigs; and the second image is called envir.GHO and is 82 megs in size. I used the larger one in your directions to make the Recovery USB flash but I am afraid that it contains both of the orginal HD partitions and I will end up with my system back to the factory presets and it will delete all of my data that I hope to keep safe on the second partition. This happened before when I restored by using the Recovery DVD that came with the system. Does anyone know what each of these ghost images contains and how my two partitions will be affected if I restore by using the large ghost image? Hoping to avoid even more trouble. Many thanks for any info and help!!!

146. 146 Andre July 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm

“Hey everyone,

I have a problem, in (5. Recovery process) when choose de image EEEPCAH.GHO give me this error: the destination disk could not be locked (643).

How can I fix it.

Thanks anyway”

I have this problem but its my fault.I put the the wrong Boot.

This is perfectly, great job. I have one question: can i install windows 7 and do the recovery after? or only works if i have Xp instal?

Thanks

147. 147 Haohmaru July 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Great tutorial and it would have been excellent if it worked for me

After creating the PE recovery USB stick on a desktop XP machine I boot my 1000H with it.

All is well until the EEE PC wallpaper has appeared and is rescaled to fit the screen properly, then a window with the message ‘system shutdown is in progress’ appears and the machine shuts down (reboot).

After rechecking the .INF file for any typing errors (there was one – a space between X:\ and GHOST32.EXE) and rebuilding the recovery USB stick again the result was the same ‘system shutdown is in progress’.

I am using a EEE PC 1000H 160GB HDD 1GB RAM with the Dutch Windows XP SP3, the recovery image file on the recovery/driver DVD is called EEPC-DUT.GHO.

Please help as I my EEE PC is now utterly useless

Regards,

Haohmaru

148. 148 cecil63 August 1, 2009 at 10:02 am

This info worked like a charm on my eeepc 900. Thank You

149. 149 tzoudas August 3, 2009 at 1:20 am

thanks man that was very useful

eee pc 900 works

150. 150 Kaan August 11, 2009 at 5:38 am

Hello,

Thank you for the greatest guide. I just wanted to ask before trying this. Well the original partition table of Asus 1000H is divided by 2 partitions. What if I try to use this recovery way on a straight 160 GB of hard drive without any partition? Will it work?

Regards,

151. 151 1000HD August 12, 2009 at 12:09 am

EXCELLENT! Worked like a charm on my 1000HD. I called Asus customer service yesterday to ask how to recover from a flash drive but they said they couldn’t provide that support. Searched all over the internet for several hours attempting to create a bootable flash drive but none of those instructions would work with the Asus recovery disc.

FINALLY, found this page and everything was exactly the same for the 1000HD. Thank you for publishing this! Cheers

152. 152 Bur August 16, 2009 at 5:06 pm

Hi,

Thank you so much for this guide Andreas. I have Asus EeePC 1005HA and it worked like a treat, even though the name of EEEPCAH.GHO in my case was EEEPC-ENG.GHO and its size was 3.6GB. I’ve managed to get it all on a 4GB stick.

Thanks again!

Bur

153. 153 Reinout August 20, 2009 at 1:22 am

A big THANK YOU!

It worked fine for my eee 900. I even booted from my SD (only had to set the SD in the bios as my primary harddrive to boot from).

Thanks again!!!

154. 154 yuan August 20, 2009 at 7:48 pm

What a great trick!!

I used it for my friend’s 1000HE netbook. And it works well..

FYI, I’m from Indonesia.

Nice to found this article.

Great thx for U, Andreas.. ^_^

155. 155 richard August 28, 2009 at 1:01 pm

this is a very good article. It helps me to recover my EEE BOX in some way. After I completed the whole process, I wrote down all pieces and published at my website – Restore Windows on EEE BOX without CD/DVD drive (boot from USB falsh drive)(http://www.sunfinedata.com/handson/restore-windows-on-eee-box-without-cddvd-drive-boot-from-usb-falsh-drive/)

156. 156 TT September 3, 2009 at 12:13 am

i was able to do slightly better after playing with the bat files. I got it to run RCDGHOST.BAT and I set the inputs manually (ie, drive id is 0, 1 HD etc)… I was able to do all of the recovery option. I had to do this because I wanted to recover to a different language and have that proper language ghost image as well in the quick recovery partition.

Thanks for all your help!

157. 157 Tolis September 18, 2009 at 2:00 am

Thank you very much for that excellent guide.I had to buy a new usb flash drive at 4GB cause i had one 8 GBand everything worked !! thanks again

158. 158 minzch September 21, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Hello, I have followed the steps written above, however I encountered a problem in the recovery process. After clicking the destination drive 1, it showed the destination details so I just clicked OK, but I got this error message:

Usage Error 684The location of the File Preservation Metadata File conflicts with the destination of the clone. Use the -PFILE switch to specify a different location for the File Preservation Metadata File.

I totally have no idea how to specify a different location. Can anyone tell me what I should do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

159. 159 Sevan September 25, 2009 at 3:36 am

Need Help!

In step 5, After booting from USB Flash Drive, WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) should start and finally Symantec Ghost it does not happen!Instead of Ghost Windows XP loading pops-up and then:

“STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}The registry can not load the hive (file)\SystemRoot\System32\Config\Softwareor its log or alternate.

It is corrupt, absent, or not writable”

What should I do?

160. 160 Mark September 29, 2009 at 12:46 am

The Eee PC 1005HA-V offers great user comfort and convenience with its 92% scaled keyboard,multi-touch touchpad and instant key (for quick access to touchpad-lock). The 10.1-inch LED-backlitdisplay and sleek chassis will allow you to work or travel in absolute comfort for hours on end.The generous 160GB hard disk drive storage will enable you to easily store and access your important data..Hey, you have a great blog here! I’m definitely going to bookmark you! Thank you for your info.And this is**ASUS Eee PC 1005HA**

161. 161 iissaabelle - France September 30, 2009 at 3:54 am

At least, I got it after 2 days !

I tryied mad with a 8 GB usb key,in the tutorial it is said “at least 4GB required”…..PeToUSB > error

You should mention a “4 G usb key” max, larger will not work !!!!

A part from that every thing is perfect and clear.

162. 162 Leo October 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Hi, i have the same trouble and also one question: what does the usb program restoring? Becouse my hdd has two partitions (Drive C-windows and D-documents) Will i lose my documents in partition D after restoring???

163. 163 iissaabelle - France October 1, 2009 at 4:31 pm

LeoI discover after this restoring that it kept C, D and E partitions (with a little E for special internal files.

164. 164 Leo TO iissaabelle - France October 1, 2009 at 6:42 pm

So you have eeePC 1000H, and made Recovery from USB Flash Drive? But what means:”The destination drive will be permanently overwritten.All existing volumes and data will be lost!”?

165. 165 K1mer0 October 19, 2009 at 2:19 am

i go until the part “After the restore process is finished, you have to reboot the Eee PC”, but then what?because it goes to the norton gost again…should i take da usb drive over?thanks

166. 166 Arno October 20, 2009 at 5:08 pm

A USB stick larger then 4Gb wll NOT work!!!! Use a 4Gb stick MAX!!!!!!

Rest of this tutorial works flawless!!!!!!! PERFECT JOB!!! THX.

167. 167 iissaabelle - France October 21, 2009 at 12:50 am

Response for léo – 70

Il will overwrite only C (destination choosen by default).D and E will remain as before.

168. 168 yinbyungheon October 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm

Alhamdulillah…It work!!! Thanks

169. 169 Vincent October 25, 2009 at 6:53 pm

hello people, I need your help. when I boot the laptop with the USB stick (cruzer 4gb) with the files then it will not start it says: Remove disks or media press a button. can someone help me please! sorry for my bad english I’m from Netherlands

170. 170 iissaabelle - France October 26, 2009 at 12:17 am

This message indicates that your USB doen’t boot (files missing).You should check again points 1 to 4 on this upper page.

If you follow the steps with you 4GB stick, it should be working.(first time I forgot point 4 !)

171. 171 James Young October 31, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Good…but what does the usb program restoring?

172. 172 Gustav November 13, 2009 at 12:45 am

Thank you soo much, I thought I’d killed my machine. Now it’s up and running. I had to download a newer version of PEtousb to get it to work with my 16gb Sandisk usbstick. Before I got a messege that read error 11 or somthing like that.

173. 173 iissaabelle - France November 13, 2009 at 3:49 am

TO 77 JAMESIt will re-install a new clean windows XP, no restore..

To 78 GUSTAVGodd news, can you give us the link of this new version ?This could be usefull to someone !

174. 174 Rafael November 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Hi everyone!

I’m having the same problems that some guys here. I folowed all the steps carefully, but in the end, the black screen shows the message: remove media bla bla bla.

Can anybody show a real solution for this?

Thanks a lot

175. 175 Chop-N-Quench New Jersey November 22, 2009 at 6:36 am

My goodness!!! You are one in a trillion. I was just about to trash my 1000HD when I finally stumbled onto this site. I had looked all over, for about three weeks, to find this solution. It worked perfectly for mine. Thanks a million.

176. 176 iissaabelle - France November 22, 2009 at 7:05 am

Yes 81, it is really a good job here, in many places very un-understanding comments or tries.

This is why I come here again to help (after 10 days to get there and understand….)

TO 80 – RafaelRemove media (booting file is not correct or the usb is not proper)keep cool, what is the next “bla bla..” ?Re-read the messages before yours, may be there is the answer about the exact message.

177. 177 nastaia November 25, 2009 at 12:06 am

Hello from Greece!!!!

Nice tutorial!!I did everything you said,but in the process it gave me an error says the GHOST FILE IS CORRUPT. After that my notebook doesn’t open at all!!!It says:NTLDR is missingPress Ctrl+alt+dlt to restart

Please Help!!!

178. 178 mfk27 December 5, 2009 at 2:13 pm

I am stuck at getting PeTo USB to even detect my device (im using an imation 250gb external hd)

Help please!!!!!

179. 179 Seaway SwampRat December 13, 2009 at 9:25 pm

I would like to thank you for you HELP! Followed your tutorial to a T and everything worked just great. THANKS!!!!

180. 180 Catwalk Gal December 14, 2009 at 4:50 am

I am using a SanDisk Cruzur 4GB USB Device. When I run the petousb program and error of “Failed to get disk layout” appears and aborts the program.

Is there anything that can correct this problem?

181. 181 John December 14, 2009 at 5:35 am

Sir, you are a genious

I needed to reinstall XP on my EEE PC 701 SD 8g, I used your procedure and it worked perfectly.

The only difference is that EEEPCAH.GHO was named EEEPC.GHO.

Again, Thank you very much!!!!

182. 182 gizmo_gal December 18, 2009 at 11:29 am

Thanks you SOOOO much for this article!!! I cant imagine what I would have to do if this weren’t in English.

I’m going to try this on my EEE PC 1000he either tonight or tomorrow. Its 11:30 pm here and I dont want to try this while sleepy, but I’m favoriting this so I can come back. Thanks a million. This is going to be sooo helpful!!!

My windows got a virus and ASUS support couldn’t help me, (f9 wont work) and they want me to send it in and I dont wanna do that. Read some pretty horrible stories about the condition of machines sent back….I’ll let you know how it goes for me.

183. 183 MC2 December 20, 2009 at 1:29 am

you the man,thanks for this

184. 184 Hipokondriak December 22, 2009 at 6:36 pm

If you do send it back to ASUS, make sure you use the authorised carrier and and take pictures of the 3EPC before you send it.Make written notes of the faults and fax/email them to your ASUS contact and put a copy of it inside the box.On return – Check it out immediately. Ask the courier to wait 5 mins for this procedure or you can have problems with subsequent claims.

Also be aware that in some cases, they will charge a fee for carrier costs and re-imaging your 3EPC.

With reference to the above, I prefer the longer but more successful method of using an external USB to IDE converter and a spare atapi dvd rom drive and use an original winXP cdrom. Then install the 3EPC device drivers and other necesary crud, and image that for later restore.

I have used Ghost but prefer Acronis Drive Image. Off topic but an alternative to Ghost, with a better success rate for me. (it can load and run .GHO images too).

185. 185 sutur December 28, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Anyone experiencing the “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME”:

I solved this issue by reformatting the bootable USB stick to FAT32 instead of NTFS. I also formatted my primary disk to FAT32 instead of a file system that windows could not read.

I no longer receive the BSOD.

186. 186 Daniel December 30, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Thnx this was really simple to follow

187. 187 Justin Kubicek December 31, 2009 at 2:23 am

Thanks a lot. This how-to really helped. For any one else out there, do not use Windows Vista (32 bit) or (64 bit). It’ll copy everything over, but it wont get the MBR right.

188. 188 Donev December 31, 2009 at 3:49 am

Thank you so much! I tried to recover by lots of methods, but only by this my windows is working correctly.I have assus 1005hab, like you said this method isn’t for my netbook, but I copied EEEPC-ENG.gho instead EEEPCAH.GHO and everything else was the same. I’d like to say something for anyone who has problem with any of install ways, try to not use windows vista, because everything seems fine, but when you connect pendrive it doesn’t. Sorry for my english and once again Tkank you.

189. 189 Priya December 31, 2009 at 9:03 am

Hi.. my computer was infected by virus and i was very upset because it was a birthday gift from my father. Fortunately i came across your guide and followed everything step by step and restored back my PC. Thanks a million. This could not have happened without your guide. Its just wonderful and you did a great job..

190. 190 gn December 31, 2009 at 2:21 pm

What happens when you hold down [ESC] during bootup, but still can not access the Asus Bios?

I have a 1000HD/XP that got a nasty virus that doesn’t allow the netbook to complete a normal bootup, so I was planning to just use the Asus recovery dvd to restore to factory setup.

B-u-t, [ESC], [F2], [DEL], & [F9] all do not allow access to the Bios during bootup.

Any recommendations?

191. 191 Zol December 31, 2009 at 11:55 pm

You are great! Functioning on Asus Eee 1008HA (seashell), too.

192. 192 ishak January 3, 2010 at 11:13 pm

(Eee PC gibi dahili optik sürücüsü olmayan sistemlerde bu DVD’yi kullanıp geri yükleme yapmak için harici optik sürücüye ihtiyaç var)

Tanısı yanlış eee pc 1000h da kendi için de gizlenmiş bir recovery bölümü mevcut yani kullnıcılar kendi cabalarıyla usb den format atmalarına gerekte yok açılışta bios ekranına geçmek için F2 ye basacaklar sonra beyaz bir ekran gelecek biosta girip boot sekmesinde boot tercihini en altta bulunan Removable sekmesini seçildikten sonra sonra exit yapılıp tekrar açılırken F2 ye basıp beyaz eee pc ekranı geldiğinde F9 a basılı tutup gelen talimatları devam ettirip recovery yapılabilir yaklaşık 10 15 dk içinde bilgisayarınız ilk günkü oluyor korkmayın D: ye hiç bir şey olmuyor yedeklerinizi D: ye alabilirsiniz açıklamaları yapanlar ii incelerse görürler bende de asus 1000h var çok uğraştım bunu yapmak için ama çok basitmiş kullanan arkadaşlar duyurulur.

193. 193 JOSE January 4, 2010 at 2:05 pm

genial, tx

194. 194 Ash January 6, 2010 at 12:04 am

Hello Guys,

This article is great! All i need now the is the original ASUS 1000H XP Support DVD whci seems to be misplaced. It be great if you could let me know where i could buy/download the required files from, Many thanks and great article!!!!!!!!!!

Ash

195. 195 Greg January 8, 2010 at 4:29 am

I had to give this a try when a virus problem totaled out my friend’s Eee PC 1000HD. I used 7-Zip to extract the files from WINPE.ISO and installed everything on a 4G Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive. The recovery worked perfectly. Thanks.

196. 196 Emre January 11, 2010 at 11:36 pm

I do it thanks a lot and i want to say this DOESNT work in WİNDOWS 7 only in Xp

197. 197 CHANDRASEKHARREDDY January 13, 2010 at 7:42 pm

Hi Gurus,I have followed “Eee PC 1000H Recovery from USB Flash Drive” process it’s worked well 6 months back but once again i am having problem with lap top “once i on it will give flash blue screen and will re-start again” i have checked in safe mode option also but it’s giving same flash screen and re-start. I am trying to reload the windows “Loading RAMDISK image” after this it’a popping up the dialog box ” Restore system image to your harddisk. Do you want to continue?” once i confirmed it’s poping up the Error screen saying that “Can not find Recovery DVD. Please suggest me solution. I am thankfull to all.thanks

198. 198 Alex January 14, 2010 at 8:23 pm

For Asus EeePC 901 with 2 SSDs and its Recovery DVD this manual is working perfectly!

199. 199 Mark January 25, 2010 at 9:14 pm

I’ve followed the steps exactly, my USB boots and I get a prompt when my 1000h boots up asking me if I want to restore a system image. I click OK, and it asks me “Are You Sure”. I click Yes, and then I get the following error:

“Can not find recovery DVD”

That’s as far as I get. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

200. 200 Newbies January 28, 2010 at 11:25 pm

Hi please help. I have a Eee PC 1000H. It got virus think due to pop up web page or emails. Now once i on my laptop, the window runs but will always hang at desktop. What should i do? How can i reformat it?

201. 201 Dhandy January 30, 2010 at 10:32 pm

Does anyone know if I can use the same Recovery DVD from a Asus 1000HD for my 1000HE (both use WIN XP Home) to do a ‘factory’ restore only difference is the HD uses a Celeron vs Atom in HE and the HE supports wireless N

202. 202 Giulia February 2, 2010 at 10:18 pm

Hi! I’ve got only a USB Flash Drive with 8GB of storage!How can I do???Thanks

203. 203 Giulia February 4, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I’ve done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!!! You save me!!! =)

204. 204 cody February 16, 2010 at 8:12 am

How can I do this with a 2 gb flash drive? I have more FD so could i do it like some companies do 2 disc formatting? Also, will this work If I cant even get to the desktop?

205. 205 rtcwgarde February 22, 2010 at 4:21 am

thanks, also works with my EEEPC 900HD ( rare eeepc )

206. 206 Valachev February 22, 2010 at 9:05 pm

God bless you for the good work!

Also works with my ASUS EEE PC 900A SSD 16GB

207. 207 tinkerbelle February 22, 2010 at 10:31 pm

You’re an angel! It worked smoothly

208. 208 Chuck February 23, 2010 at 1:26 pm

When I use the two USB drive method when exactly do I remove the boot USB and replace it with the recovery USB?

Thanks

209. 209 m3nd3l March 2, 2010 at 10:14 pm

HOwdy,

Yeah, nice tutorial. Thanks a lot for that.But forget about 7zip for ISO’s. just tried that, and it does not work. Winrar does on the other hand, so let’s stick to that!So, 7zip is tested, and does not work, it screws up some winPE files and gives you a BSOD..B-)

210. 210 CJ March 4, 2010 at 4:34 am

Is there a certain way the USB drive needs to be formatted for the recovery file? I put it on a drive and the Symantec Ghost didn’t recognize it. One step away from completion!!! Please help!!!

211. 211 Jspot March 30, 2010 at 9:14 am

Hi,

When trying to boot up from the USB, pressing ESC at boot, I get a message stating:

Primary Slave Drive – ATAPI IncompatiblePress F1 to Resume

After I press F1 I get the choice to select boot device. After selecting my USB drive, I get the following error message:

Remove disks or other media.Press any key to restart.

There are no other disks or media. I even tried booting with the hard drive removed – still the same message.

Please help!

212. 212 Papa Dave April 2, 2010 at 2:05 pm

Thanks a lot! Worked just fine!!

If someone has problem entering the boot-menu with (ESC), enter bios (F2 at bootup) and disable “fast boot”.

213. 213 selits April 6, 2010 at 9:09 am

Works great on Windows 7 Pro using Windows XP Mode.

214. 214 Steve April 11, 2010 at 4:24 pm

See tutorial video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMsMXOterc

215. 215 dksill April 13, 2010 at 5:05 pm

can’t get it booting! I have tried on many different sizes of the USB drive; does not boot at all!DK

216. 216 kahn April 13, 2010 at 10:51 pm

Can I complete this description of another computer?because my eee is completely dead. can not boot to Windows.

217. 217 Jspot April 18, 2010 at 7:17 pm

For one’s having booting issues… you have to remember that you MUST perform stpes 1 through 4 on a PC using Windows XP 32-bit version. I was using Vista and couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t boot. I even bought a new USB drive. After about 3 days of trying and failing, I decided to read the instructions thoroughly one more time and found that the author wrote the following:

“I’ve tested this guide with a 32-bit version of Windows XP. A 64-bit version of Windows Vista can not be used!”

218. 218 Steve April 19, 2010 at 12:59 am

For those having difficulty see tutorial video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qMsMXOterc

Works on XP, Vista and Win 7 32-bit or 64-bit.

219. 219 McKack April 20, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Thanks! Worked great, and I used a generic MicroSD USB-adapter with a 4GB MicroSD Card.

220. 220 Meujeuh April 24, 2010 at 11:36 pm

Great, great thanks from a French Asus 900 owner! My Eeepc is alive again, thanks to you! (Maybe you should include in the tutorial your answer to Komrad, i.e., the fact that the whole thing can be done with two separate usb keys, one -small- for the boot files and the other one -bigger- for the ghost image.)

Thanks again!

221. 221 Peter April 25, 2010 at 8:03 pm

He he, thanks a lot from a Dutch Asus 1000H owner. Lost some gigs of music, but what the heck, its working again.

222. 222 k2 team May 2, 2010 at 4:00 pm

This is probably the most stupid recovery program in computer history: it just deleted a whole partition full of data without even asking – D: is completely gone. Perhaps they should have mentioned this little fact (that the program writes a complete disk image, not just one partition – this isn’t even necessary!) in the manual or in the screen before the recovery.

223. 223 Fred May 29, 2010 at 4:48 am

GREAT!!!!I was desperate on how to get my 1005 back on running after a Linux install destroyed my total HD.Thankz to this detailed story i got my system running again in les then one hour. GREAT!What’s more, i now have a nice ghost version for other PC’s to make great backups.

Thank you!Fred, Netherlands

224. 224 Maxdoro May 31, 2010 at 3:05 am

Hey you just saved my day, thanks!It worked.

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