Asus System Recovery Error: “No partition selected”

17 April, 2007 at 8:18 pm by Phil Wiffen · Filed under Troubleshooting, Windows

This is a guide for anyone who receives the “No partition selected” error when trying to run a system recovery on their Asus Laptop.

The symptoms

When you try to recover your OS you get the error: “No partition selected”
You converted your partitions from FAT32 to NTFS (via the little short-cut Asus kindly put on your Desktop)

The cause

The software used to recover your OS only recognises FAT32 partitions. How wonderful of you PowerQuest. It’s no wonder I use Acronis for everything now…

The solution

You need to format your target partition to FAT32. There’s a nice Open-Source boot-cd that can do that. Or you can use Acronis Disk Director or something similar.

Did this help you at all? Any questions? Feel free to leave me a comment below

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joel said,

18 January, 2008 at 10:47 pm

tenho 1 asus a7 j versao windows xp media center mas instalei o vista pa experimentar e agora nao consigo formatar o pc com os cds de recovery dele ke conteem o xp original dele kando seleciono o recovery na partiÃ§ao c: ele segue eu aceito os seguimentos mas cando vai comeÃ§ar a fazer o recovery aparece a dizer powerquest error eu ponho fix ele segue depois diz virus e nao avanÃ§a mais
Phil Wiffen said,

21 January, 2008 at 11:12 pm

Joel, can you type this in English and I’ll try and help you out
JonathanNiels said,

18 April, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Thanks, I’m gonna try this. My situation is exactly als described by your post.
Tissinha said,

5 May, 2008 at 1:57 pm

I have that same error, but I can’t run Windows, so if I have to convert the partition to FAT32, I have to do it though ms-dos… Do you know how I can do that? Thanks
Phil Wiffen said,

8 May, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Tissinha, you can do it using the tool that I mentioned in the post: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php