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    Y400 Recovery Backups - REQUEST

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by swoley2k, May 29, 2013.

  1. swoley2k

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    Hello!

    I recently purchased the Y400. I made a ghost image of both the OS partition and the recovery partition. I went to test my backups and it failed. Unfortunately, I had already wiped the hard drive several times.

    My request is if someone is willing to restore their Y400 back to when they first got it from factory, create a backup image of the HDD and send it to me somehow. It would likely require a few DVDs or be sent via USB drive or some other form of data storage/transfer I am not aware of.

    If it comes down to mailing a USB drive I am willing to pay for sending it back and forth.

    Lenovo wants $59 and the support personnel I talked to lead me to believe it still wont restore the system back to factory.

    Im fine with my current Windows 7 but I'd like to be able to turn the system back to factory when needed.

    Thank you in advance.

    My Model specs:
    i7-3630QM
    8GB
    1TB Seagate ST1000LM024 only
    withOUT 16gb SSD
    750m Single non-sli
     
    swoley2k, May 29, 2013
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