[REQUEST] Restoring ChromeOS

[Archon Prime]

So I was given an Asus C200M Chromebook today which has a corrupted OS. So I've created the restore media and connected it to the unit. verifies the integrity and then sits there at "System Recovery in progress..."

I've read some things online saying 3-5 minutes for this process to complete....it's been a good hour+. I'm not even seeing it read anything on the USB flash drive either.

This is the first time I've even dealt with these things. Anyone have any knowledge about this process?

EDIT: Update - I re-created the recovery media from a linux machine from scratch after doing a long format on the flash drive. Just letting it go. Still no activity light on the stick since the verification process was done.

 

[Altster]

Is it safe to assume that you grabbed a fresh download directly from the Chromium OS Website http://www.chromium.org/Home and created you installation media from a fresh download? If not I suggest that you do that and see what happens.

Of course before you do anything like this, check the hard drive for errors, etc. - in other words, run a hardware diagnostics on the unit first!

 

[NviGate Systems]

Depending on the Chromebook this could be eMMC or SSD. Due to price points and web connectivity, most Chromebooks don't have much storage.

I checked and this model only has 16GB eMMC which is soldered to the main board. iFixit has a teardown on that model.

It could be that your eMMC is cooked. Or you could try a different flash drive. I know of quite a few systems where certain flash drives refuse to work.

 

[Archon Prime]

@Altster not sure what you are talking about. Chrome has a build in recovery app that does the installation of the specific chromebook model, etc. And there is no way of doing a hardware diagnostic on this sort of thing that I can see/read.

@NviGate Systems
Looks like the eMMC is fried from what I found out from Asus on this matter. The installation should be 3-5 minutes tops once it's copied the info over to the eMMC. So this is toast and out of warranty. Wouldn't be feasible to repair, a new one is 200.00 lol

 

[NviGate Systems]

If this is yours to keep might be worth seeing if there is a Linux distro that will boot from USB, might be neat.

 

[Archon Prime]

No this was the wife's cousin's

 

[FremontPC]

Perhaps see if you can boot the chromebook from a linux distro then use the Disk Utility to check the SMART status of the emmc. Not an exhaustive test, but might point out a glaring problem with the drive that's hanging up the works.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Maybe a micro usb flash drive with ubuntu installed? Lol.

 

[Archon Prime]

ya not sure I want to worry about it too much

 

[FremontPC]

Aw c'mon. Yer itchin to run Chrubuntu, we all know it.