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    Problems With One Key Recovery 8.0 & Windows 8 In Lenovo G580

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by st_7, May 16, 2013.

  1. st_7

    st_7 Newbie

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    One of my friend recently imported a Lenovo G580 from U.S to India. The laptop comes with Windows 8 pre-installed. He has taken the backup using One Key Recovery 8.0 and the backup has been saved D:\Lenovo\OneKey App\OneKey Recovery, the backup is a total of 12 GB. After taking backup he has resized the C:\ partition. Now One Key Recovery is not working for Backup or Recovery. Lenovo Support executives are no help, I've tried to follow instructions given over Here, but the first option doesn't work with OKR 8 & Windows 8 setup, in the second option there are only OKR 7 setup disc download links are given, hence they don't work with windows 8 setup.

    What I'm looking from this post?

    1) Is there any way that I can use the backup files(backup.wsi, .dsi, .0005 files) to restore the system to factory state. Like booting with a repair disc & use those backup files for restoring the system to factory state. Or even if I can make a bootable recovery disc from the files themselves.

    2) Do any one posses OKR 8 Setup disc images, or any links to them(just like OKR 7 setup disc download links given Here

    Why I'm so much insisted of restoring the laptop to it's factory state because it has to be in factory state if it needs to be taken to Lenovo Service Centers for any sort of problem.
     
    st_7, May 16, 2013
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  2. V_R

    V_R Newbie

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    Hi,
    I have a case similar to yours. Why did you resize C in the first place ?? In my case the C drive with win-8 is exceedingly large and i would prefer to have win-8 in a small C with separate data drives. But all this is needed without spoiling the one-key recovery button/feature ......Pl let me know if you found a fool-proof solution....Thanks...Regards, V_R
     
    V_R, May 30, 2013
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    xDragonZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    dronelebeau Notebook Geek

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    resizing the partition would mean erasing first all data in the disk right? if that's the case, then the backup you made is gone and that's the reason why the recovery won't work.
     
    dronelebeau, Jun 12, 2013
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