considering the 14 a while now.. worth it or not getting the i7-4800MQ, or i7-4700MQ already overkill?

Is there still a practise from the manufacturer to provide recovery DVD nowadays?
Or they expect you to burn your own recovery DVD?

guys...
i think i m in a bit of a shitty situation here...
any help is of coz welcomed.

I managed to change the mSATA from cache to storage.
All went well and i must say it was easy.

But after a shut down, windows wouldnt load saying BCD error thingy...
Tried Alien Respawn to no avail.

Any suggestions?

try google for refresh BCD in windows.

Slot-load optical drives are crap haha, might as well just remove it
Save the trouble of having discs stuck in the notebook XD XD

depends on your usage
If you are using the notebook for gaming and Office tasks as well as other normal tasks that doesn't involve rendering and calculations. Then the i7-4700MQ is already good enough.
Use the remaining budget for an SSD instead, it'll offer much more performance gain compared to CPU upgrade

They don't provide anymore unfortunately. We have to burn/copy it ourselves

that is definitely a pain.
Cost cutting measures by the manufacturer.

Well, not that its very hard to create those recovery media also la haha, so I guess its still okay

nobody uses DVD anymore la

From what I noticed about this error, it happens when the system mistakenly reassign your drives,
Let's say your OS in installed in C but it got reassigned as E and vise-versa.
-Or the software that was used to move your OS got messed up.

1. First, one of the ways I think may fix it is to
(i). Detach your HDD and leave the mSATA (or Wherever your OS is in)
(ii). Then try boot from Windows 8 DVD and reassign the primary OS drive manually (take note that the system may prompt to fix it automatically).

2. Second way.
(i). Insert the Windows 8 disc, Boot into “Repair your computer” and select Troubleshoot > advanced options. Go into the MS-DOS mode by choosing Command Prompt, type the command to run:
(ii). BCDboot c:\windows /s c: /l en-us

That's from what I can understand and I hope it helps.
Do give feedback whether it works or not so that others that face this problem can use the solution as well

Kinda true

But as for me, I would quickly burn myself a recovery disk (maybe two) before I remove the optical bay x)
Then prepare a backup to boot on external hard disk.
Then only I'll install my SSD.

Additional information for those who wondering about installing an SSD on the 3rd slot (by removing optical bay):

1. Can purchase part and ask technician to install with surcharge.
- But then would have your parts covered in warranty as well.

I will add in the price and other stuffs after I get my quotation from my awesome agent xD
(She had been very patient and willing to answer my questions as well as giving me freebies and discounts as much as possible).

Can you boot into your system recovery?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/...command-prompt/

SSD do have less lifespan compared to HDD. Really sure you wanna go fully SSD?

You can save the recovery media in pendrive or HDD/SSD what

even more costly. haha
back to the latest M14 r4 topic. How many of you guys actually placed order already?
honestly I still can't convince myself to place order. So guys, help me

Or ask putochip123 with no surcharge

pendrive around Rm20 only nowadays haha
Especially useful for notebooks without optical drives~

true..
how easy is it nowadays to create a bootable USB with Win8 ?

Not fully true, unless you plan to hold on to your SSD for a very very long time. By the time our present (as of July 2013, depending on the usage and size) SSDs die off, I guess that the SSD price would have dropped significantly to be affordable (I hope). Plus, future SSD surely would benefit from a more efficient space management to reduce wear rate (other than wear leveling and over provisioning for now).

On tweaktown, they managed to test Samsung 840 250gb SSD and they wrote 101 TB to the 250gb (and lasted 1024 hours) before the test went out .


http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/5196/sam...end/index3.html

So by a rough estimation, for a 64gb SSD perhaps could last 25.6TB of write .

Edit: Remove image because cannot load, sorry newbie to forums don't know how to use link to image. Replaced with link instead for convenience of all.

This post has been edited by sadukarzz: Jul 9 2013, 10:45 PM