You will need to delete that extra partition on your primary drive, shift the over recovery partition around (because it will be wedged between them), and expand the C: partition. I backed up my msi recovery on 32gb flash drive and use it to restore when required. So when you want to restore the system to factory state, you can use the msi recovery saved on your flash drive. MSI Center/MSI Dragon Center/MSI Creator Center and use Backup/MSI Recovery/MSI Burn Recovery, b.

For notebook that pre-installed with the system, run the pre-installed software: a. There you will have to save the msi recovery to the flash drive. MSI strongly recommends users back up all personal data, and create the system recovery flash drive with the pre-installed software. Just be advised that if you have a second storage drive, and choose the option to restore ONLY to the C: drive (meaning that you don't want the stuff on the extra drive wiped), then the image will install a separate partition as part of your primary drive. Image Credit: FarknotArchitect/iStock/GettyImages Restoring an MSI laptop to the original factory settings can resolve a number of issues with the system. Open dragon center and go to tools section or find backup. Might have worked!īut anyway, worst came to worst, I used BurnRecovery to make a bootable USB of the MSI factory image, and reset the OEM image. I had to actually sift through the settings in the Killer networking console, and disable them to see which was causing the problem. And apparently, the one thing that I didn't try (but learned about AFTER I reset) might have helped. It was a Killer wifi driver preventing hibernate, and eventually BSOD when attempted. I in fact just did a complete factory reset on my MSI last weekend. You can always do a clean install of Windows 10, as long as you get the appropriate drivers yourself.

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