New Ideapad Y580 - Going from 1TB Drive to 128 GB Intel SSD

Hey guys,
I have a technical question for you all.

My new Ideapad Y580 came with a 1TB drive. Drive Manager shows that

Disk0 is divided as such=

System_Drv is 200MB NTFS
Windows8_OS (C: ) is 886.32 GB NTFS
Lenovo (D: ) is 25.47 GB NTFS
19.38GB Healthy OEM Partition.

I wanted the Recover Button able to do a quick recover if I wanted to down the road.

How do I setup my 128 GB Hard Drive so that it looks like a clone of the 1TB but with not such big Partitions and free space of course (given the size of the SSD)

I am thinking for Warranty purposes etc.

Thanks

 

For warranty service with Lenovo, you won't have to send in your hard drive (unless it's a hard drive issue, in which case only the original drive is covered, obviously). So I wouldn't worry about that.

I believe the recover button restores based on a drive image, so there's little you can do to change the image itself to, for example, shrink it.

 

Well, based on my experience on the Y570, I would think that you could just burn recovery DVD's and then restore into the 128GB drive.

If you want to recover your existing OS, you can restore it as long as it fits in the 128GB drive.

 

Success. Friend helped me with this using

Hard disk drive management software, partitioning manager and partition recovery utility

Resized my partitions on the 1TB drive and copied everything over. The only glitch was because the main drive I was copying from (the 1TB) already had C: and D: etc. I had to reboot with the Disk Director and rename the partitions to match the source 1TB drive.

After initial cloning, My drives were labelled F: and G: etc.

I also used a combination of True Image 2012.

Thanks