Lenovo One Key Recovery: doesn't like 3TB external hard drive

Hello,

I bought a y410p last month and as I finished configuring it, I want to start making backups. One Key Recovery (OKR) isn't helping though. I've been on my mac all my life (and happy to transit) and I'm still not familiar with the windows or lenovo environment.

My configuration:
Lenovo y410p - 59392473 IdeaPad Y410p High-Performance 14" Multimedia Laptop from Lenovo | Lenovo (US)
Windows 8
Currently, 1TB HDD. Just ordered a Sandisk Ultra Pro 256GB that I will put in the main drive spot, and the 1TB HDD will go in the ultrabay.

What I generally want:
1) Do a one time backup of a (1TB HDD + 256GB SSD) on my 3TB seagate external drive from which I could reboot if ever something bad happened to my computer. --> preferably on one partition of the 3TB drive
2) Do recurring backups (that would not rewrite everything everytime). --> preferably on another partition of the 3TB drive

What the problem is:
One Key Recovery sees my 3TB Seagate external drive, but doesn't want to write on it. So that means that when I'm in the OKR app and choose "external hard drive" and browse for my drive, the app acknowledges my choice, but does not let me continue (the continue button is not clickable). I then tried with my 1TB HGST external hard drive and that worked perfectly. But this drive is where I put all my music and pictures and it wouldn't support all the data on my computer.

What I think I want:
1) Make OKR work.
2) Advice, tips or opinions about apps that make recurring backups that don't rewrite entire backups every time, and that give a good amount of configuration and stuff. Preferably free (I'd donate if I liked it).

Thank you very much for your attention!
Julian

 

There are better programs than OKR out there. I use Clonezilla.

 

Solution to my first problem:
My Seagate 3TB was divided in 2 user partitions (3 if counting the health one) and I made them one. Tried OKR and it accepted it!

jobine, I looked up Clonezilla and it seems interesting, but what exactly does it offer more than OKR (especially since Lenovo computers have a hardware button to use OKR)?

Anyone has suggestions on a program that would backup similarly to Time Machine (but better)?

Thanks,
Julian

 

Clonezilla is primitive and lacks the excellent integration, but like you said is free and full-featured.

Apple Time Machine is limited to Hackintoshes. I haven't even bothered with OS X on my Y410p yet, but since the Intel 2230 does NOT work in OS X, you will need to install the unlocked BIOS+buy a compatible Wifi to be able to hackintosh.

 

So actually, my "solution" didn't work. I forgot to press "next", and the same problem persists. Any idea on how to make OKR work?
I'm not familiar with the term hackintosh and I didn't understand your message very well. Are you saying that we can make the BIOS and wifi card better? Right now, I'm mostly having problems with: USB 3.0 speed (they don't go over 40 MB/s on the blue USB 3.0 port), and the Wi-Fi card that acts weird sometimes.

 

Resize the partition on the drive to 2TB. I think FAT32 has a limit of only 2TB of disk space.

Is your external drive usb 3.0? If you are using a usb 2.0 drive on a usb 3.0 port, you will still get usb 2.0 speeds. Also, hard drives are not that fast, you would need a SSD.

Go on Intel website and use the latest (16.x) drivers, i heard those fix the issues. If that doesn't work, post here and i'll tell you how to rollback the 14.8 drivers that are rock-stable.