BIOS message “Press F2 to run setup” → BIOS Setup Untility.
BIOS message “Press ESC for BBS POPUP → Select the boot device.
BIOS setting.
Boot menu:
Boot settings.
Boot Settings Configuration.
1st Boot Device: [HDD:PM-Hitachi HTS] or [USB:VendorCo Produ].
2nd Boot Device: [ATAPI CD-ROM].
Hard Disk Drives ⇒ You select between HDD boot or USB boot. The 1st drive will be booted. If you set USB as primary boot device: The order is automatically changed to boot from HDD, as soon as the USB stick is removed.
1st Drive [HDD:PM-Hitachi HTS].
2nd Drive [USB:VendorCo Produ].
Boot Settings Configuration
Quiet Boot [Enabled] ⇒ This option causes the Asus boot screen to be displayed , but no “fast boot” .
My experience:
Best to boot by USB stick, is pressing ESC at boot time, and then to select the USB device.
You may force to enter BIOS at next boot by Windows configuration:
“Settings / Recovery / If you're having problems with your PC, go to Settings and try resetting it / Recovery / Advanced startup - Restart now - / Choose an option - Troubleshoot. Reset your PC or use advanced options / Advanced options / Startup Settings / Restart”. Press F2 at boot time, so that the BIOS is entered.
It helped to load the BIOS defaults, to be able to enter BIOS by pressing F2 at boot time, from that on, easily.
BIOS message “Press F9 for image recovery” ( ASUS manual “F9-Recovery” in the ASUS manual ) → Windows textmode menu “Windows Boot Manager”, select “Windows Setup [EMS Enabled]” .
Menu options “Recovery” ( to start the system recovery ), “Backup” ( the factory default system files ).
Pressing F8 at startup of Windows → Windows textmode menu “Advanced Boot Options”.
Menu item “Repair your computer”.
Pressing the special button calls the “ASUS Express Gate Cloud” ( with games, photo album, Internet browser,.. )
Though I successfully created an ISO image in UDF format, with the contents of the DVD “Eee Recovery DVD Rev 1.0”, the free software Microsoft Store "USB/DVD-Downloadtool für Windows 7" aborted the copying of the ISO image on the USB memory stick .
I was able to boot by USB memory stick with the corrupt data. But when I tried to do a data restore according to the instructions given by the booted backup/restore software, I was asked to enter the CD/DVD media into a drive - instead of restoring the data from the USB memory stick. So I failed to restore!
If you downloaded the Windows upgrade by the “Windows Upgrade Assistant”, just use the free software Microsoft Store "USB/DVD-Downloadtool für Windows 7" to store the “Windows 8 Pro Upgrade” ISO image file on the USB memory stick.
Disable Boot Booster in BIOS setup before you perform system recovery from USB flash disk, external optical drive or hidden partition.
Ensure to connect your Eee PC to the AC power adapter before using F9 recovery to avoid recovery failure.
Press <F9> during bootup.
Select the language you use and click to continue.
Connect a USB storage device to your Eee PC and click Backup in the Recovery System dialog box to start the recovery files backup.
The size of the connected USB storage device should be larger than 16GB.
Memory cards are not supported for this function.
A dialog box appears as a reminder if you have not connected the USB storage device for system recovery backup to your Eee PC.
Select a desired USB storage device if more than one USB storage device is connected to your Eee PC and click Continue.
All the data on the selected USB storage device will be cleared. Click Continue to start the backup or click Back to backup your important data. You will lose all your data on the selected USB storage device. Ensure to back up your important data beforehand.
The system backup starts and click OK when done.
Using the USB storage device:
Connect the USB storage device that you backup the system recovery files.
Press <ESC> on bootup and the Please select boot device screen appears. Select USB:XXXXXX to boot from the connected USB storage device.
Select the language you use and click Image:Icon03.JPG to continue.
Click Recovery to start system recovery.
Select a partition option and click Continue. Partition options:
Recover system to a partition - This option deletes all data on the system partition “C” and keeps the partition “D” unchanged.
Recover system to entire HD - This option deletes all partitions from your hard disk drive and creates a new system partition as drive “C” and a data partition as drive “D“.
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the recovery process.
It's not a good idea to create a partition in the USB flash drive. You will lose all your data on the selected USB storage device upon creating a bootable disk . Future reference, if you are going to store files/documents on the USB device, the image of the OS wont work and is no longer usable. The USB flash drive that you will use to store the imageo f the OS will be intended for single use only..