Asus Transformer T300L Factory Reset Failing at 87%

brokenT300L

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I'm trying to perform a factory reset on my Asus Transformer T300L - but it keeps failing at 87%. Since it's gotten to 87% it will no longer load windows at all, (Windows 8.1). It will start up with the black ASUS screen, say preparing Automatic Repair, then diagnosing your PC, and the go to Automatic Repair blue screen saying your pc did not start correctly, will give you the option to restart or go to advanced options.

I've tried both options under resetting - the wipe everything and the just wipe my stuff, with the same results.

Under advanced options, I have tried to reset multiple times with the same result (failing at 87%). I have tried renaming system and software with command prompt as I saw in a few other threads - it will not let me rename software as I get a warning saying that file is being used by another process. I've tried a handful of other commands in CMD but it says the commands are unrecognizable (the CMD prompt says it's Administrator so no idea why it won't accept any commands).

I tried to start up repair but that failed but said it logged to C:\\WINDOWS\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt but I can't even navigate to that location to view the file.
If I try System Image Recovery there are no images available.

My last option is to just use a thumbdrive to just reinstall windows but I was hoping to reach out to see if anyone had anymore suggestions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm at my wits end! Cheers.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Vista and Win7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2xHP, 2xGateway, 1xDell, 1xSony
    Hard Drives
    5 SSDs and 12 HDs
Trying to refresh just automatically goes to the "There was a problem refreshing your PC. No changes were made." screen.

The powercfg /a command will not work from CMD you get from the repair advanced options and like I said I can not get into Windows since the reset failed at 87%.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8
May I suggest to make frequent images. Then you can get back up and running in 20 minutes when you are in such a predicament. The programs I have used and can recommend are:

Free Macrium
AOMEI Backupper
AOMEI One Key

The last one is interesting because you need no seperate recovery media. AOMEI has good tutorials. Look under "Support". For Macrium you can get started with my tutorial.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Vista and Win7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    2xHP, 2xGateway, 1xDell, 1xSony
    Hard Drives
    5 SSDs and 12 HDs
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