My dad has an Asus Eee pc 1018P that the hard drive worked at the airport, then when he got to his destination, invalid boot media message constantly appeared. I tried rebooting but safe mode was not an option, which baffles me to start out. I went ahead & purchased a replacement drive then reached out to Asus Support to purchase a Windows 7 Starter disc since they no longer include them when you purchase a new anything. I was told they have no more discs to sell but I could pay to have netbook shipped, with insurance to their facility and have return postage & insurance prepaid and for an additional $85, they would re-install Windows 7 Starter. I'm old school and feel that since I paid for and have a valid COA with a license key, that I am entitled to a disc. It happened at Christmas time when I purchased a new laptop for myself & when it arrived, it didn't have any backup software in case of hard drive failure, they immediately sent a Windows 8 disc to the house without charge for the disc or for shipping. This company will get my business in the future. As for Asus & Microsoft, who after 55 minutes of department changing and hold times, basically told me they don't have Win 7 starter discs themselves but would gladly sell me a new copy of 7 Home Media Edition for $119.99 and prices increased with better versions. Is there any legal way to actually NOT be held hostage by Asus or MicroSHAFT? I tried putting the drive in a drive bay and sometimes it spins up & sometimes it doesn't. I have Partition Magic 8 which in theory, I could copy the Recovery partition, make a partition that size on new HD & install from that, at least that's how I think it's done. I would greatly appreciate any tips, tricks or workarounds that you fine people may have to offer. It's a simple machine for a 75 year old man to check his emails and do online crossword puzzles, but to re-purchase another copy/version of the OS just rubs me the wrong way and is also probably a third of the cost of a newer/faster netbook. Thanks again for all of your help & really appreciate this site. I have learned an enormous amount of information from y'all & am very thankful that nice people still exist in the horrible world that we have turned it in to.
Regards,
F. Nolte III
Regards,
F. Nolte III