I figured no big deal, just reboot normally. The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. Pressing Enter or F8 resulted in additional clarification of: Doh! It immediately crashed to a screen saying something similar to the below:Ī required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. Later I decided to test that the recovery partition would boot properly.

I used the free version of Macrium Reflect and cloned all partitions except for the D: partition which was empty anyway.Īfter the clone I removed the old drive and booted the SSD. I do have my own Windows 8 media available from a previous computer, but not from ASUS.

I bought a Samsung 840 Pro and proceeded to attempt to clone the 750GB drive to it since there is no recovery media included with the WIndows 8 distribution (and no way to create the media as there was in previous Windows 7 models). It came with a 750GB drive and I intended to replace with an SSD. I bought the G75 with windows 8 installed last week. Note: This post is specific to the Windows 8 G75 model, it don't think it applies to Windows 7.

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