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Just got a Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 with 1 TB HDD. Win 8. Onekey recovery 8.
there is one large OS, with about 900 GB space and 5-6 other partitions.
I want to make a separate files/data partition to keep my personal files by getting some space from the large OS partition.
I have heard that people who made a recovery image by OKR and then partitioned their HDDs, had problem restoring the image.

I wanted to know whether someone has succeeded in repartitioning first and then making a backup image using OKR ? and will this backup image work in case of system failure ?
When I try to make a backup using OKR, it says it needs about 30 GB space, while the default path of D: LENOVO only has a total 25 GB size.
So I would need to expand that partition too, if i want to keep my backup image on the laptop itself, which seems to be the most convenient option.

any suggestions ?

mcgranger, Mar 4, 2014

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for a new system, short answer is yes.
u will need to know the original serial numbers for the partitions on the HDD.

I just bought a new Y400 sometime back. Win 8, OKR 8. 1TB HDD.

It had incovenient partition sizes - with a large C-OS, a D: Lenovo and no separate partition for personal files.

I like to keep personal files in a separate partition, so I was going to repartition the C drive, when I saw the threads about how OneKey recovery (OKR) will stop working if I did so.

So I was searching for answers and I read the long winded procedure for re-installing OKR for those who have already partitioned their HDDs and their OKR stopped working.

I also read something about serial numbers of the partitions, in some thread.

Here is what I did -

DISCLAIMER: Please do it at your own risk, what worked for me, may or may not work for you. I am not responsible if anything goes wrong.

Prepare:

A) Make a backup of your system using other cloning/imaging tools before you do this.

B) Be prepared that OKR backup and recovery will still not work after this, and you might have to take the longer procedure to get OKR functionality back.

C) I have just saved the backup image, NOT yet tried to recover from it, so cannot say for sure if that image will work.

D) Even if it works, I do not know what parts of the system will be restored.

What I did -

1) I made System Repair Disc using Win's recovery system and also a system image using the same.

2) Wrote down the Serial Number of all the partitions in the HDD (I had 7, including 2 normal ones, 5 hidden (1 reserved)).

I used Minitools Partition Wizard Home Edition 8 for this (freeware). Probably other paritioning software also have this ability to show partition serial numbers, but I am not sure. I also had Easeus Partition Master, but somewhere I read a post where EPM messed up some partitions after it was done - like some paritions became visible, some became primary,etc. That might be a one off issue though.

3) Shrunk the C from about 900Gb to about 120gb.

4) Made an F drive from most of the unallocated space.

5) Increased the size of the Lenovo D partition to about 35gb , since I thought its current size might not hold the recovery image. (Before partitioning, OKR said estimated image size was 29Gb).

6) Once all this was done, as expected, OKR said this system cannot be back-ed up.

7) Checked the serial numbers of the partitions and noted that those of C: and D: had changed.

8) Changed the serial number of C: and D: back to their original numbers.

(I was scared at this stage, since I don't know much about partition serial numbers and the software said system might not boot!)

Serial numbers are shown starting with 0x in this software. But when you go to change it, 0x is not required to be written. Just copy paste the numbers after that.

9) Changing the serial number of C: needs a restart.

10) System did boot after this.

11) started OKR and it made a backup image and stored it in Lenovo D:.

Success.

2 points -

1) I have not tried to restore the system using this backup image, so I am not sure if it will work !!

2) When I started OKR backup, it said estimated image size is 26Gb, however after the process completed, it seemed to occupy only 15 Gb space. Is this normal ?

I will make a backup of this system using some other software and Win Recovery, and then try to recover using OKR and see how that goes. Will report back once that is done.

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https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/For-NEW-system-how-to-re-partition-AND-make-OKR-OneKey-Recovery/td-p/1469130

mcgranger, Mar 5, 2014

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My Lenovo Z710 1TB came pre-installed with Windows 8.1.
I wanted to resize C: from 900 GB to 240 GB
and resize drive D: from 30 GB to 690 GB.

I used AOMEI partition assistent 5.6 to make these partition changes.

First I made a bootable recovery USB-stick with initial install.
Then I made a bootable AOMEI CD.
Also made a system-backup on external HDD with OKR.

Used Minitool partition 9.0 to write down all original partition-ID’s.

Booted my laptop with the AOMEI CD (takes a while)
Then resized C: and made a partition F: with rest of the space.

Restarted laptop, and merged F: with drive D:\LENOVO (with AOMEI)
Made sure that D: was the target drive to merge with.

Checked all partition-ID’s with minitool partition wizard.
All partition-ID’s were still the same.

Started Lenovo OneKey Recovery 8.
Could perform a (saved) system-restore.
Could perform an initial system-restore.
All seem to work just as it should.

Big thx to developpers of AOMEI partition 9.0 !

PS, possible alternative solution if this not work for you : AOMEI OneKey Revovery

Patrik54, Jan 30, 2015

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Will OKR function, if I make a system backup image AFTER re-partitioning the HDD ?

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