Lenovo Y580 HDD + SSD installing Win 7 Home -> Win 7 Pro 64x issue

Hi everybody.

I am new to the forum, so yesterday I got my first Lenovo Y580 59-3491, I7 3630QM, 1TB HDD, 32GB SDD bought laptop. The laptop came pre-installed Win7 Home Premium 64x. Then I tried to install Win 7 Pro 64x and have followed the instructions because (SSD + HDD) on the page -> Introduction to reinstalling Windows on the machines built with Rapid Drive

Everything was fine until: (2) Step Reinstall Windows

After run "RapidDriveTool.exe", restart the computer, and boot from Windows installation DVD. Select SSD disk to install Windows. The disk 0 is the SSD disk. You may need to re-create the partitions in SSD. The following screenshot is for demo only, and the partitioning may be different from yours.

I have almost the same partitions, except the type OEM (Reserved).

That's why I (as described) have deleted "Disk 0 Partition 2", then I clicked on New and nothing happens! I cannot go on Next and continue with the process. When I click on the message, then it says: Windows cannot be install to the disk ....





I cannot install Windows and unfortunately I have created no Win 7 Home Premium Repair Disk. But I have an older Windows 7 Pro PrepairDisk.

The OKR button still works, just OneKey Recovery cannot be created because I have no backup and there is an error message.



On boot without Win 7 Boot Disc I get this error message.



So, what can I do in this situation?
In various forums I have seen that the problem probably could somehow be solve with OKR 7.0 EE. Is this true?

Sorry for the bad image quality.

Since I unfortunately do not know what to do in case I hope/please for your help.

Best regards.
Lenart

 

You can bypass that error message by disabling uefi in the bios.

Still, messing with rapiddrive is asking for trouble.

this happened to me too when I was experimenting with an msata ssd.

that rapidtool just didn't work right for me. I had to wipe the whole ssd and install from scratch. After I was done, i did not bother to install rapiddrive.

 

Hi link626,

thanks for your reply. So, if disabling uefi won't solve all problems, then you think it would be better to remove all partitions, then recreate them and try a clean installation?