Y580 Recovery

Greetings all,

First I would like to say that I have made recovery disks for the laptop before

Now, the problem:

Yesterday the Harddrive in my Y580 died(not sure how, probably due to me setting it on sleep and taking it out for a prolonged time) so I went to a shop to get a replacement(1TB HDD) and I told them to just insert the HDD in the laptop(which they did), but I was in a rush to somewhere else so I told them to have it ready by the next day

so, today, I got the laptop back, but to my surprise someone there installed a possibly fake windows installation, everything seems to be normal, but now I don't have the Lenovo software that usually comes with the laptop(like the onekey recovery), also when I lower/higher the brightness/sound it doesn't show me an icon saying it is being higher-ed/lowered, also if I press FN+F5 the bluetooth/wireless icon doesn't pop up, no Lenovo battery system or graphics mode interface available as well... besides that everything else seems normal

So I would like to ask, if it is possible to get all the above back? or can I use the 3 recovery disks I got to restore the laptop to it's factory state?

also there's something I don't understand, when I bought the laptop it said on the box (750GB + 64GB SSD), does this mean there's an actual separate SSD on my laptop? because I assumed it to have come with a Hybrid HDD(or whatever they call it), can anyone verify this with the pic below?


and if there is a separate SSD, how can I access it to store something there?

I know some answers may be obvious here, but I prefer to be safe than sorry :/

Thank you,
Raficoo.

 

1. I don't know exactly how you made the 'recovery disks' - but yeah try them if you want. My personal opinion would be to just install a clean copy of Windows.

2. The screen brightness/sound etc. are all driver based issues. If you install the correct drivers, the problems should go away.

3. Yes the Y580 did indeed come with a separate mSATA 64GB SSD, in addition to the normal drive. (I used to have one). Regarding the SSD, you have two main options:

A) Format the SSD, install Windows on it, and use it as an OS drive, and store only SOME of your programs. Store all remaining programs, games, music, photos whatever on the HDD.
B) Format the SSD, and use it as a cache drive, using Lenovo Expresscache drivers, or Intel Smart Response Technology. Intel® Smart Response Technology

Personally, I would go for option A.

 

Thank you for the reply:

1- I made recovery disks using the one key recovery software that came with the laptop before, I've got high recommendations to do that so I did it in case anything bad happens to the harddrive

also the problem is that I don't have an original DvD copy of Windows, the original came with the laptop and I'm assuming the only way to get the original back is through the recovery disks, or am I wrong?

2- I began to download and install some drivers, keyboard, mouse, bluetooth, onekeyrecovery(although I'm not sure if I'll need this again)

but there's one thing I don't get is that most keys work now, but if I press the Numlock button(or Capslock) I don't get the Icon notication of them being on or off, everything else shows an icon(for example the brightness/sound or Play/pause/Stop buttons) except these two... any idea which driver should bring these 2 icons back?

3- The person who installed this windows on my laptop seemed to have install it on the mSata SSD(as my laptop's boot time is pretty fast) so I'm not sure how I can a clean install, only option I see is by the recovery disk... but to be honest it seems like the person might have done a clean install for me(except the drivers which I am installing)

and I still don't know how to access the mSata SSD, I only see the 2 HDD partitions on my computer, how do I access the SSD?


Thank you,
Raficoo.

 

Okay, So due to some uncertainties while installing the drivers(got a bit of errors), I decided to use the recovery disks I made and recovered the laptop to its factory state

All seemed well, but now with the new 1TB HDD installed things are a bit weird in the storage area:


First off, I don't know why the mSata SSD is all of a sudden considered the same disk as the HDD while at the same time showing me another Disk(Disk 1) that can't be initialized

and if I try to create a "Simple volume" for the unallocated HDD space, it gives me an error saying "You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions."

How can I fix this in a way that C: (or atleast D: ) will be the 1TB HDD?

EDIT: Apparently I could expand the volume on the C: from the unallocated space, but now I have no idea on how to access the SSD again....