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I just did the factory restore from the hard drive by pressing F9 on boot up and going to Trouble Shoot > Advanced Options > Reset. It gave me the option to just reset the partition Windows was installed on or all partitions. That drive had a Data partition. I chose the partition Windows was installed to only option. It took 10 maybe 15 minutes, I didn't time it. On the next boot I got the select language screen, so it did go back to the factory state. After that I took the hard drive out and put my two SSD drives in. I then tried doing the same procedure from my USB Recovery drive and it failed. I got a "A required partition is missing" message. I then tried to restore the image I made earlier and it failed also. I got a "A drive required to restore this PC is missing". It was something like that. I wrote it down but now I can't find the paper I wrote it on. I ended up doing a clean install. That went lightning quick with no hitches.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS M4N68T-M V2 µATX Motherboard
- Memory
- 8GB 4GBx2 Kingston PC10600 DDR3 1333 Memory
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA Geforce GT640 2 Gig DDR3 PCIe
- Sound Card
- VIA VT1708s High Definition Audio 8-channel Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 22" LG E2242 1080p and 2 19" I-INC AG191D
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024 - 1920x1080 - 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD and 500 GB WD Blue SATA
- PSU
- Thermaltake TR 620
- Case
- Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case
- Cooling
- Stock heatsink fan
- Keyboard
- Logitech Wireless K350 Wave
- Mouse
- Logitech M570 Trackball and T650 TouchPad
- Internet Speed
- 80 Mbps Down 30 Mbps Up
- Browser
- Internet Explorer 11
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender
- Other Info
- HP DVD1040e Lightscribe - External USB2