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The fix: echo 0 > Q: FactoryRecovery RECOVERY.INI:Done • If this doesn’t work, edit Q: FactoryRecovery service_done.ini, and set DONE=0. Unfortunately this entire process was fruitless, because even when I was able to get the recovery application to start and agree to begin creating disks, I was beset by this lovely error: The next thing I tried was to install a newer version of, which also failed during the second phase of the installer. Once again, this seemed to be related to my partition and bootloader monkeying. At this point I’d had enough time to inspect the contents of the Q drive, and determined that there were several key files that would recover the system partitions: • Q: factoryrecovery cdrivebackup.swm through to Q: factoryrecovery cdrivebackup6.swm – a multipart WIM file with the original contents of the C: partition • Q: factoryrecovery sdrivebackup.wim – a single part WIM file with the original contents of the S: partition There are a number of tools that will read WIM and SWM files, but the most popular referenced one is imagex.exe, part of the. It’s since been replaced by DISM for Windows 8, but I managed to get things restored with imagex. In case you don’t want to download the entire 1.7GB WAIK archive, that worked for me. I followed approximately the same steps from with some minor changes: • I created a Windows 7 Pro SP1 installation USB stick from ISO and imaged it to a USB drive with the.

FOUND Win7 pro Recovery disks for Lenovo X230. If you have bandwidth, I can download.iso files. That is what the Lenovo recovery disks do.

Does it restore to factory settings from a partition on the hdd? Would I be losing any functionality by not having any of the lenovo tools stored on the extra partitions? Also, I will try with the upgrade disk and the lenovo key from the laptop, I guess worst case scenario is it just won't accept the key.

Even if it gives you some activation issue on first boot you can try fix it fairly quickly like this: Activate Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Windows 8 users who noticed that the operating system can’t be activated after the installation may want to try the following workaround that worked to activate when installing Windows 8 using an upgrade on a clean PC. Open regedit by pressing Windows-q, entering regedit and selecting the result from the list of hits. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ Change MediaBootInstall from 1 to 0 Go back to the start screen and enter cmd there. Right-click Command Prompt and select to run it as administrator.

Very quick and simple. Just use cloning software from Acronis like True Image 2012 and a external USB3 2.5' HDD caddy which you can install your SSD into while you clone it, then swap the SSD into your laptop. If you don't want to use the Lenovo image then simply copy the SWTOOLS folder to an external HDD or USB stick, install your SSD and insert the windows 8 pro upgrade disc, run the standard installation and use the registration key that should of come with the Windows 8 Pro disc.

Download alternative recovery disk for Lenovo. If the recovery partition of your computer is corrupt or damaged or you no longer have your recovery DVDs, download Easy Recovery Essentials. The recovery disc set consists of the user instructions and. X230 Recovery Media.

Running the “Create Recovery Media” application (or Q: LenovoQDrive.exe) I was thwarted by some quasi-DRM mechanism that insisted that I’d already created a set of media and to go away. Who knows, I may have managed to get it to create disks to an external DVD writer when I first bought the machine. As a side note, you’ll want to enable viewing of hidden and system files to more easily work with the Q drive and review its contents.

• Hit Enter • A progress bar should now appear that mentions “ ThinkVantage Technologies”. The ThinkVantage button on your laptop • When the Boot Menu screen appears, go to your optical drive (usually at the top of the list, called ATAPI CD) and hit Enter • The ThinkVantage Technologies name should appear.

License agreement message in Lenovo ThinkVantage software • Click OK at the warning message • Click OK when asked to insert the second disk and so on • Wait for the process to finish. Recover Windows Vista Windows Vista users can restore their system with ThinkVantage software using the recovery disk with these instructions: • Make sure you have the Rescue & Recovery Startup/Boot Disc CD at hand. Insert it in the tray If you don’t have the recovery CD or DVD, • Power on your computer • When the computer starts to boot, press the F12 key. On Lenovo laptops you may need to click on the ThinkVantage button instead.

I just wasn't sure if this is possible or if there are any drivers or system tools I would be missing that would noticeably affect performance or battery life. Ideally I would also like to be able to run diagnostics and make sure I can get into the bios (I know on my x200 I have to press the thinkvantage button just to get into bios).

• When buying a new ThinkPad, consider taking the IPS screen option if possible, as it doesn't cost much. Not only will it have better brightness, colour, contrast and viewing angles - you will most probably more than make up the investment when selling it.

After a bit of house tidying over the past few days, I managed to locate the power adapter for my Lenovo X230 laptop. Upon booting it up I realized that it had accumulated a number of outdated applications and crufty configurations, so I wanted to restore it to factory settings. Ordinarily I would immediately image with a stock Windows ISO, but since I’d paid for a Win7 Pro license, and wanted all the Lenovo applications restored (volume/brightness OSD, battery monitor in taskbar) I specifically wanted to restore to the OEM version and then remove the trialware. The first problem that I ran into was that since Linux has been on this machine, and I’ve swapped the internal HDD to an Intel SSD, the partition table and MBR weren’t exactly in original. As a result, the common technique of pressing the ThinkVantage button at startup (or Enter, when prompted) and choosing to restore the system (or pressing F11) wasn’t going to work; the option is simply not present. To be clear, I still had three partitions in place: primary partition 1, a 1499MB “SYSTEM_DRV”; primary partition 2, a ~208GB “Windows7_OS” partition mapped to C:, and primary partition 3, a 13.67GB “Lenovo_Recovery” partition mapped to Q:. The SYSTEM_DRV and Lenovo_Recovery partitions all still had their files intact. My first attempt was to hit F8 at boot, just prior to the Windows logo appearing, and select the “Repair your computer” option.

I'm wondering what my options are for doing a clean install of windows 8 pro on the ssd? I currently only have window 8 pro upgrade disk, does anyone know if I could use this with the key from the lenovo laptop? Would I have to get an oem disk? Is there anyway I can use the recovery option that comes on the installed hdd? Thanks in advance. Yes the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade disc seems to not care if you don't have a Windows 7 install already on the system, so you should be able to treat it as a normal install disc. Least this is my own personal experience on a totally clean install which was done on a new VM to test this very question.

Does it restore to factory settings from a partition on the hdd? Would I be losing any functionality by not having any of the lenovo tools stored on the extra partitions?

Lenovo generally puts everything on the support.lenovo.com download area. The sole exception is usually royalty bearing products like DVD playback applications. Those are usually under the SWTOOLS area on the original hard drive. I usually copy that folder to a DVD for that reason. @ripper2020 - Why bother with all this re-install using the Lenovo recovery. If you want the Lenovo Windows 8 image moved to your new SSD just clone the OS on the current HDD to the SSD and that's it.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Download alternative recovery disk for Lenovo If the recovery partition of your computer is corrupt or damaged or you no longer have your recovery DVDs,. Easy Recovery Essentials works with any Lenovo computer model and it’s compatible with the following Windows versions: • Microsoft Windows 10 (read more on our ) • Microsoft Windows 8 (read more on our ) • Microsoft Windows 7 (read more on our ) • Microsoft Windows Vista (read more on our ) • Microsoft Windows XP (read more on our ) • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 (read more on our ). Screenshot of Easy Recovery Essentials You can burn Easy Recovery Essentials directly to a CD, DVD or a USB flash drive and use the Automated Repair function to automatically find and fix boot errors. Note: Easy Recovery Essentials can not be used to install or reinstall Windows.

Even with the drivers being very different, it works great, and running System Update fixes the drivers that was missed. I've tried it both ways on several ThinkPads just to see if it would work and it always has been a flawless process. I used the recovery media from a T430 to restore an X230 to factory state. I've had to apply a bunch of Windows and Lenovo updates, but as far as I can tell (after 1 day), everything's working.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the Windows setup. After you have completed the Windows setup, you might want to restore the original startup sequence. Start the ThinkPad Setup program and then press F9 to restore the default settings.

Not all recovery disc sets come with a Supplemental Recovery Disc. Notes: • You must have a DVD drive to use the recovery discs. If you do not have an internal DVD drive, you can use an external USB DVD drive (Cannot use USB stick to create restore media). • During the recovery process, all data on the drive will be deleted. If possible, copy any important data or personal files that you want to keep onto removable media or a network drive before you start the recovery process. To restore the computer to the original factory configuration using the recovery disc set, do the following: Note: Recovery can take one to two hours to complete. The length of time depends on the method you use.

I recently bought an x230--very happy so far--and want to prepare a usb stick as recovery media, but am afraid to try as I hear you only get one chance to do this. Greatly appreciate answers/advice on the following before I go ahead: 1/ What is the minimum sized USB stick I could use for this? 2/ Do I need to make the stick bootable before using the recovery media generation software, or will it do that for me?--the advice I've found on this all seems pretty dated now. 3/ Is it possible to boot from a USB 3 stick with x230, and if so is there likely to be any advantage of using a USB 3 stick over a USB 2 one?--I guess question 1 may deal with the advantage or not bit of the question. Thanks for any help. Restoring the factory contents by using Recovery Disc Set When the hard disk drive or solid-state drive is replaced because of a failure, no product recovery program is on the new drive. In this case, you must use the recovery disc set for the computer.

If you need a Windows 7 ISO, I suggest looking for Digital River links and verifying the hashes against the original versions. This isn’t piracy – these ISOs still need a product key but we won’t even get that far, since we’ll be restoring the Lenovo copy of Windows. • Copy the imagex.exe file to the root of the USB stick. • Boot to the Win7 USB stick in BIOS, then choose the Command Prompt option. Determine where all your drives are mapped and replace drive letters in the commands below to reference the appropriate drive.

Create a set of Product Recovery discs in ThinkVantage • Insert your CD or DVD and click OK • When the recovery disks are created, you can verify them by inserting the first one in the disk tray, open ThinkVantage again and see if the “ You have already created a set of Product Recovery discs” message appears at the Recovery Discs tab. Create the recovery disk for Windows Vista The instructions for creating the disk using Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery on Windows Vista are below. If your computer has the OneKey software instead (IdeaPad and IdeaCentre series models), follow the instructions for this software, according to the steps below. • Go to Start and then All Programs • Find the ThinkVantage folder from the list.

Lenovo OneKey Recovery 7.0 on Windows Vista • Click Create Recovery Disc • Click Factory default recovery disc • Insert your first blank CD or DVD. You will need up to 3 DVDs or 17 CDs • Select your optical drive location to use • The process will now start • After each CD/DVD is successfully created, label them and keep them safe!

Hi gras100, and welcome to the Lenovo User Community! To answer your questions, in italics (based on my X220 experience): wrote: 1/ What is the minimum sized USB stick I could use for this? 2/ Do I need to make the stick bootable before using the recovery media generation software, or will it do that for me?--the advice I've found on this all seems pretty dated now. I followed this USB drive preparation procedure first. It may or may not be required on new systems like the X230 (perhaps someone can enlighten us?): Then I made it into a recovery USB stick like this: 3/ Is it possible to boot from a USB 3 stick with x230, and if so is there likely to be any advantage of using a USB 3 stick over a USB 2 one?--I guess question 1 may deal with the advantage or not bit of the question. I don't know the answer to this.

If so I think I will be getting myself a 16gb USB 2 stick and following the same steps Bananaman did. You can't enlighten us on whether it is still necessary to make the stick bootable in advance of running the recovery media creation software? Best regards, g.

I followed approximately the same steps from with some minor changes: • I created a Windows 7 Pro SP1 installation USB stick from ISO and imaged it to a USB drive with the. If you need a Windows 7 ISO, I suggest looking for Digital River links and verifying the hashes against the original versions. This isn’t piracy – these ISOs still need a product key but we won’t even get that far, since we’ll be restoring the Lenovo copy of Windows. • Copy the imagex.exe file to the root of the USB stick. • Boot to the Win7 USB stick in BIOS, then choose the Command Prompt option.

Yes the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade disc seems to not care if you don't have a Windows 7 install already on the system, so you should be able to treat it as a normal install disc. Least this is my own personal experience on a totally clean install which was done on a new VM to test this very question. Even if it gives you some activation issue on first boot you can try fix it fairly quickly like this: Activate Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Windows 8 users who noticed that the operating system can’t be activated after the installation may want to try the following workaround that worked to activate when installing Windows 8 using an upgrade on a clean PC. Open regedit by pressing Windows-q, entering regedit and selecting the result from the list of hits.

Create the recovery disk for Windows 7 Computers with Windows 7 from Lenovo have the ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery software installed (ThinkPad, ThinkStation etc.), but if your computer series model is an IdeaPad or an IdeaCentre and it has the OneKey software instead, follow the next set of instructions. The instructions for creating the disk using Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery on Windows 7 are: • Click Start • Start typing factory recovery in the search bar • Find the Lenovo – Factory Recovery Disks item • If the User Account Control window shows up, click Yes • Check the “ The recovery media you are going to create can only be used on this system. Do you want to continue?” option and then click OK • Select both Boot Media and Data Media options and click OK. Boot Media and Data Media options on Lenovo ThinkVantage software • Insert the first blank DVD • Select your optical drive that has the blank DVDs inserted • Click OK and follow the next steps to complete the process • When the DVDs are created, label them and keep them safe!

If you are not sure if your computer is using this software,. • Open OneKey Recovery. Lenovo OneKey Recovery 7.0 on Windows Vista • Click Create Recovery Disc • Click Factory default recovery disc • Insert your first blank CD or DVD. You will need up to 3 DVDs or 17 CDs • Select your optical drive location to use • The process will now start • After each CD/DVD is successfully created, label them and keep them safe! Create the recovery disk for Windows 7 Computers with Windows 7 from Lenovo have the ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery software installed (ThinkPad, ThinkStation etc.), but if your computer series model is an IdeaPad or an IdeaCentre and it has the OneKey software instead, follow the next set of instructions. The instructions for creating the disk using Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery on Windows 7 are: • Click Start • Start typing factory recovery in the search bar • Find the Lenovo – Factory Recovery Disks item • If the User Account Control window shows up, click Yes • Check the “ The recovery media you are going to create can only be used on this system. Do you want to continue?” option and then click OK • Select both Boot Media and Data Media options and click OK.

In What Situations EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Can Help You Out • Hard Disk Recovery Get data back from inaccessible hard disk Restore files from damaged or corrupted hard disk or external hard disk Disk initialization when the device is just connected • Deleted Recovery Deleting files by skipping your Recycle Bin or pressing 'Shift + Del' Deleted by right-clicking menu or just pressing 'Delete' button Emptying Recycle Bin without backup • Format Recovery Accidental format or reformat the device Disk displays as RAW or Windows asks 'Media/Drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?' • Partition Recovery Accidentally deleted partitions Restore lost partitions, due to repartition, boot manager, etc.

If that works, you know you have a good backup and restore of the factory image. Regarding getting the restore/recovery disks from Lenovo, that really depends on the price and whether the backup/restore you just did worked. Lenovo generally puts everything on the support.lenovo.com download area. The sole exception is usually royalty bearing products like DVD playback applications. Those are usually under the SWTOOLS area on the original hard drive. I usually copy that folder to a DVD for that reason.

Could you elaborate on this? What exactly would I test?

Even with the drivers being very different, it works great, and running System Update fixes the drivers that was missed. I've tried it both ways on several ThinkPads just to see if it would work and it always has been a flawless process. I used the recovery media from a T430 to restore an X230 to factory state. I've had to apply a bunch of Windows and Lenovo updates, but as far as I can tell (after 1 day), everything's working.

In What Situations EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Can Help You Out • Hard Disk Recovery Get data back from inaccessible hard disk Restore files from damaged or corrupted hard disk or external hard disk Disk initialization when the device is just connected • Deleted Recovery Deleting files by skipping your Recycle Bin or pressing 'Shift + Del' Deleted by right-clicking menu or just pressing 'Delete' button Emptying Recycle Bin without backup • Format Recovery Accidental format or reformat the device Disk displays as RAW or Windows asks 'Media/Drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?' • Partition Recovery Accidentally deleted partitions Restore lost partitions, due to repartition, boot manager, etc.

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