Thinkpad X230- No recovery partition, lost System_DRV and have no recovery media

I bought lenovo thinkpad X230 in January 2013. I made a recovery USB on a 16 GB pendrive. I bought a windows 8 pro upgrade offer as well. But i did not install it at that time and kept it for future use.

About a week ago I installed windwos 8 on my system in dual boot mode making a partition on primary HDD.
everything went ok with only problem that my windows 8 did not activate. I was ok with that. But when i tried F11 recovery function, it was not working.

So i tried factory reset through recovery USB i created earlier. It opened up and said BOOTMGR missing. Later with some research I realized that i didnt make USB active (bootable) before burning it.(Though this is ridiculous considering, tools provided must have done that. Like when you make windows bootable.)

With all this(and me panicking), I tried backing up my data with image i created through R & R tool. After back up, I lost my recovery partition on HDD. And I guess i accidentally deleted System_DRV partition as well.

Though my computer is running fine. I need a bootable media. it would be great if you can provide it. Also if you can restore my comp to factory setting with recovery partition, it would be great.

Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

 

Your computer dual boots between Windows 7 and Windows 8? What is the problem you are trying to solve at this point?

 

I am reading this like you have all of the files saved on the USB stick, just not in bootable form. If this is true, I think it might be possible to make an iso or image of the flash drive and then use one of the many ISO to bootable USB tools online to make a bootable flash drive.

Otherwise, I know Lenovo offers recovery media, but you will have to pay for that.

 

Call Lenovo Technical Support for THINK-branded products. In the US, it's 1-800-426-7378. If you live elsewhere, you can search for the number.

"Hello, ThinkPad Tech Support? I bought my X230 in January. I created my factory recovery media, but I now realize that it doesn't work. Could you please be so kind to send me a set of recovery discs?"

That should work. (Now, don't tell me you don't have a DVD drive. You take care of that.)

 

Thanks all for the reply.

And yeah I called customer care. They did factory installation of my HDD also provided me with a set of recovery media and it didnt have to pay a single penny.



Thanks Lenovo.