G570 One Key Recovery Issue

Hi lenovo,
              I have bought lenovo G570 8  months ago. i asked for a original os. It came with win 7 home and OKR. after the release of win 8 i installed win 8 in C: .but the oem partition was good . i did not disturb It. after install and boot win 8 did not open. so i used OKR to go back to factory settings. but OKR did not open. I had a recovery disk earlier. i`ve used It to install home basic but i am not satisfied with this copy as It had a lot of errors. i need a factory setting. in the disk management i can see that 14.75 gb oem partition is 100% free. system is not booting into OKR environment. next i installed a fresh copy of win 7 ultimate. during install, while selecting the partition It showed the 14.75 GB  oem partition as only 4.35 GB free others used. actually data is inside It. but OKR is not booting. i asked the nearest shop he asked to bring me another G570 laptop so that he can copy its content to my hdd. so ways are there to copy contents to oem.         Can anyone help me
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Hi Balkishan,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Lenovo Community,
Am sorry to hear about the issue that you’re facing but I’d like to confirm to you that the recovery won’t be working as the recovery image is corrupted so there’s no way to be able to let the OKR working again,
And I’d like to advise you to be able to install windows 7 on C: and free space you start a fresh installation for windows 7 and using the copy of the windows 7 you can format C: by pressing on the Local Disk C: from inside the installation process,
And then press format and then you can choose this partition to install windows 7 on,
And I’d like to provide you with contact numbers for the service support to call them if u needs any support:
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Hope the information helps. Let us know.
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