Iconia w700 virtually useless - need to restore

It's been gradually slowing down over the last 6 months to the point where it's virtually unusable now. So with this tablet. Anyway, I'm thinking I would like to restore it to factory default condition. I have a number of dvd's that came with it, including 3 recovery disks and 1 system disk. I can't find clear instructions anywhere on which of these disks I am supposed to use to restore it to original condition. I've tried creating a bootable USB of the system disk, but using the various advanced system options and/or bios boot options didn't result in it being recognised.

So could some kind sole give me instructions of how I get this brick back to it's original state via USB? I have the software to create dvd ISO's and create a bootable USB. One potential unknown is that the recovery disks are split into parts. I'm not sure how to work that in regards to a bootable USB. So any advice on that would be good too.

Cheers,

Bernie.

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-Justin

berniewest,

Here is an article we created for how to perform this function on the W700.

Iconia W700 system recovery instructions

berniewest

Thanks for that, but I am wanting to do it with a bootable USB stick, not an external dvd drive. Who the hell has an external dvd drive just lying around?? Can't believe Acer didn't allow for this to be redone via a bootable USB ISO.

Anyway, upon reading some other threads on the various problems people have had with the w700, I came across another problem I wanted a solution for. The fact that the "full power" setting on the power management isn't actually "full power". Honestly, what a ridiculous computer this thing is. Anyway, I downloaded the necessary driver and corrected the settings on it, and it's running like a bat out of hell again! Smiley Happy I updated a motherboard (or perhaps it was a chipset) driver too, so that may have helped as well. It's gone from being unusable to nice and fast again. What I can't explain is how it was fast to begin with, without the correct driver that I ended up downloading to speed it up. The only thing I can think is that previous driver did the job properly until it got corrupted, perhaps.

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