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Contents.Download alternative recovery disk for LenovoIf 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 ).
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Screenshot of Easy Recovery EssentialsYou 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. Create a recovery disk for LenovoLenovo computers have a hidden partition that can be used for recovery and restore. The OneKey Recovery Software icon.
Click Create Recovery Disc. Select Factory default recovery disc. Insert your blank CDs or DVDs.
You will need up to 3 DVDs or 17 CDs. Select the drive location to use. The recovery disc creation process will now start. The software will ask you to insert the second disk when the burning process for the first one is finished.
Mark each CD or DVD and keep them safe!The instructions for creating the disk with Lenovo ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery on Windows XP are below. If you are not sure you’re using the ThinkVantage software,.
Boot Windows XP. Go to Start.
Select All Programs. Find the ThinkVantage folder.
If you have a Lenovo 3000 the folder name would be “Lenovo Care”. Click Create Rescue and Recovery Media. At the Recovery Discs tab, select the Create a set of Product Recovery discs now option and click OK. 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 VistaThe 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. If you have a Lenovo 3000, the folder name can be “Lenovo Care” instead. Click on Create Product Recovery Media. Check the The Product Recovery discs you are going to create are for use on this computer only. Do you want to proceed?
Option and click OK. Select your optical drive to use with blank CDs or DVDs.
Insert the blank DVD and click OK. Follow the next instructions on the screen to complete the process. When the DVDs are created successfully, label them and keep them safe!The instructions for using OneKey Recovery on Windows Vista are below. 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. Wait for the process to finishPersonal files stored on the USB flash drive will be deleted! Backup your files before you continue. When the process is finished, it will ask you if you want to delete the recovery partition.
It’s recommended that you do not delete it as you won’t be able to recover or restore your computer with the USB flash drive in the future. Remove the USB flash drive.
You can close the Control Panel window at this point.Recover a Lenovo using the recovery partition or diskA Lenovo computer can be recovered and restored using the hidden recovery partition or the recovery disks that you created (or already had).CDs or DVDs are used for Windows XP, Vista and 7. USB flash drives are used for computers with Windows 8 installed.Not all series models will have the hidden partition. If you don’t have the recovery partition and neither the recovery disk already at hand, Recover Windows XPIdeaPad and IdeaCentre computers with the OneKey Recovery software installed can follow these instructions to recover and restore Windows XP:. Insert the first recovery CD or DVD in the trayIf you don’t have the recovery CD or DVD.
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 VistaWindows 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 trayIf 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. At the Boot Menu, navigate using the arrow keys to the first option of the list: ATAPI CD (it can be ATAPI CD0). At this step you need to select the optical drive where you inserted the first disc. 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.
Hi there.I'm having a problem trying to restore my Lenovo Edge 13' to its orginal state.Some months ago, I had it shipped for repair and it returned with a wrong version of Windows 7 recovery. I've bought Windows 7 Pro, had Windows 7 Pro, the I got Windowns 7 Home Premium. Well, that wasn't bad except that I need to a have a proper license.After phoning the local hotline, they shipped me a new system recovery media. I was kind of expecting a small USB key with the file, but no, they gave me two DVDs. That would have been nice, if just my model had an optical drive, but thats just not the case.I've tried to make my 16 gb USB flash key bootable and copied the files from the DVDs.
I have tried to have the files from both dvds at the sametime as well as only the files from the OS disk. It boot fine, I select my language (tried both danish and english), accepts the license, confirms that my USB is listed as recovery media, and it begins.But then the magic stops.
At the very first step 'preparing hard disk' it hangs. The interface is response, or that means the mouse is, all the buttons is disabled. At the moment it has been like that for about 45 minutes.I've tried deleting all partitions with a GParted-live cd copied to another USB, and I've tried to reconstruct the orignal partitionstate. Of course not the real partitions, but the same locations and sizes that it was shipped with. No luck.I can put a Windows 7 iso on the usb, and it works fine, no problem there.
I can do the same with Ubuntu if I wan't to, everything goes smooth, but the Product Recovery just won't work.And why I just doesn't install a clean Windows 7 Pro? Because I wan't some recovery software and I don't wanna spend the money that I don't got, and achieving what I should have got in the first place.Btw, anyone else experienced that this model get's extremely slow after about a month from last reinstall? I don't fill my system with useless, slowing crap.
I always keep its as clean as possible: Windows, Chrome, Live Messenger, Avast!, Visual Studio 2010, Lenovo tools and drivers, and yet, I have to reinstall once a month because of bad performance.Thanks for your time - I appreciate it. Hi Nicky,It may well be that the R&R software simply won't run correctly from flash when migrated from CD no matter what you do. I don't have all the pieces necessary to test the following, so I'm just tossing out WAGs here.I see some notes on the forum (somewhere.) that says R&R 4.3 can create rescue media directly on USB flash.
Can you create one that way locally and boot that instead of the CD copy? Any difference?edit Sorry, I missed the part about you already deleting your partitions. Never mind.How are you making your bootable flash drive from the R&R CD/DVD? Like so?I don't know that it would behave any differently, but what happens if you create a bootable flash drive using grub and then boot the ISO (you would first have to make an ISO from the R&R CD and put it on flash) directly, rather than copying the files? I doubt that it would behave any differently, but if you are out of other options, it might be worth a shot.
It takes a bunch if fiddling, but it sounds like you are handy with this stuff.Use linux tools, or maybe easier use the to make a bootable drive. Install grub legacy. Get memdisk from. It's part of the SYSLINUX download. Then set up grub's boot menu like this (your actual paths may vary):title R&R ISOkernel /boot/isolinux/memdisk iso rawinitrd /Like I said, it's a total long shot. Maybe it will behave differently. I keep meaning to write this stuff up on my blog - it's useful for many ISOs, windows recovery console for instance - but I haven't found time yet.
more edit Belay that. I just tried it with a Lenovo Vista install DVD on my T400. Made and ISO out of the DVD, put the ISO on a flash drive with grub and memdisk.
It actually boots all the way to the ThinkVantage splash, then crashes If you can lay hands on a flash installer created directly from R&R, you may have a shot. My ISO method is a failureFinally, does it make any difference whether your flash drives are formatted FAT32 or NTFS?Sorry to fill the thread with all this (probably unhelpful) noise, but I feel your pain.Z. I assume that your license key on your laptop is for 7 professional, right?You can use your usb flash drive to install your retail version with the key on your laptop.Install windows 7 professional with your key, but when it says to enter the key, don't. Let windows 7 load and when it boots back up into the desktop, before you connect to the internet, shut the machine off.Reboot back to the desktop, don't let it connect to the internet yet.
Go to system, at the bottom, enter your key from the laptop. Then reboot again. This time let it get to the internet and go to system, and activate windows. You will probably have to use the phone activation, it only takes 10 minutes and your windows 7 will be activated without having to use your retail license.Get all your windows updates done and then download and run Thinkvantage System Update from the link above. You can pick and choose which programs you want, but download and install them one at a time and reboot after each one. Sometimes installing them all at once doesn't work so well, and then you won't know which one gave you a problem.
Once you get your system back up and running, you can go into control panel, backup and restore and burn a system image onto a usb drive. You'll need another flash drive to burn a system repair disc. You'll be able to boot to the system repair and install your image with these.This won't give you a restore partition, but it will give you a clean install and your machine should run pretty well.You won't be able to copy those restore discs to a usb flash drive. Restore discs are totally different than retail media. I've never found a way to make it work.
The only other way to get your drive re-imaged would be to send your machine back to get it done, or get a usb optical drive.Let us know if you have any problems,DaveOh yeh, you might want to rethink your partitions if you do it this way. Wrote:Hi there.And why I just doesn't install a clean Windows 7 Pro?
Because I wan't some recovery software and I don't wanna spend the money that I don't got, and achieving what I should have got in the first place.Apologies if I'm beating a dead horse here.What do you need in the way of recovery software? My T400 has a clean Windows 7 Pro 64 install on it from MS media. I ran TVSU and added all the Lenovo stuff - inlcuding Rescue and Recovery.I was surprised that R&R doesn't need a recovery image/partition to function.
You lose the ability to restore to factory state with the Think button, but you can still make bootable R&R media and backups. I do so frequently. You can also still run R&R at boot time via the Think button (via some bootable image magic) and do file salvage etc from there. It may not work the same way on your machine. It may require F11 or some other incantation. Or not work at all - I don't have experience on your particular hardware.You might give 's suggestion further consideration.Just sayin'Z. I will try to give you some information.
You are on vacation and took the recovery disc with you or they at home?The recovery DVD set is 2 or 3 DVD's. I have NO experience is making a DVD recovery set work on USB.(1) Disc 1The is the bootable software to run the recovery.It appears you used another PC to copy Dvd 1 to USB, and it booted ok.(2) Disc 2This is a data disc. It contains the compressed extract files to run the factory install. Disc 1 is the Build person, disc 2 is data to help the build compete. I have no idea how disc 1 will find a USB data file to continue.(3) Disc 3Sometimes shipped. Just optional software, ie data file.I would find a PC repair shop and pay them for use of external DVD player to do the restore, and enjoy your vacation!
HiThats strange, there would be some alternatives to replace DVD with USB /external discs.wrote:I will try to give you some information. You are on vacation and took the recovery disc with you or they at home?The recovery DVD set is 2 or 3 DVD's. I have NO experience is making a DVD recovery set work on USB.(1) Disc 1The is the bootable software to run the recovery.It appears you used another PC to copy Dvd 1 to USB, and it booted ok.(2) Disc 2This is a data disc. It contains the compressed extract files to run the factory install. Disc 1 is the Build person, disc 2 is data to help the build compete. I have no idea how disc 1 will find a USB data file to continue.(3) Disc 3Sometimes shipped. Just optional software, ie data file.I would find a PC repair shop and pay them for use of external DVD player to do the restore, and enjoy your vacation!