G580 problem factory restore

Hi. i just buy a g580 and want to install win 8 on it cause i have 7 like default OS.
I go into win 8 setup and delete win 7 partition for the mbr problem. Now of course i can't boot in win 7 and win 8 cant install cause i have to delete all the disk in order to change mbr.
I didnt create rescue dvd cause i know ALL notebook have their recovery partition.
This seems i cant recover to factory if partitions are modified. I recreate the original partiton that of course is empty.
But there is no way I can recore to factory.
Is really true i can't restore to factory if i change some partitions (isn't call in this way just for this purpose??)
Can someone help me to restore to factory casue i dont want to wipe all?
Maybe i can download rescue dvd for 2689 somewhere?
Any help would be really appreciated.

Hi lvpvsinfabvla,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the Lenovo Community,
Am sorry to hear about the issue that you’re facing and I’d like to confirm to you that the recovery won’t be working as their Hard disk modification as the MBR partition was deleted which have been done causing the recovery not to be working,
But the way to get windows 8 back you will have to contact the service support to get the machine back with windows 8 but am sorry to tell you that it maybe Billable repair as to get the Recovery image again:
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But if you need to install windows 7 so you can get a CD copy from windows 7 and start formatting the Hard Disk and installing windows 7 from scratch and let me know of you faced any problem while installing windows 7.
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First of all let me say, this is my first Apple computer and I'm not experienced in forums. Please do not read rudeness into what is actually frustration at searching forever for a solution and trying not to wish I had been talked into an Apple. With that said....
I've had my iMac for about a year and a half. We had lost our internet and were using a hotspot for awhile so we could look for another provider and get online if we needed to. One day I signed on and, we didn't have an isp mind you, but the browser opened up to the dominant isp in this area saying a virus was detected coming from this iMac address? I thought that was strange and panicked so decided to do what I would on a pc, just restore the whole thing to factory settings. Everything was going smooth, (my updates were at 10.6.8 at the time)... when I restored I was back at 10.6.2. (osx disk) I was doing systems updates and one apparently hung.... when told to restart, I did... but the computer would never boot back up. It would turn on.... go to gray screen... then blue screen... then shut off. I couldn't boot in safe mode, pram reset did nothing, smc reset did nothing, couldn't hold 'd' to get to diagnostics, couldn't boot to recovery... it kept spitting out disks after trying to read them... with all those solutions I found online and nothing helping I had to call Apple... they couldn't help over the phone because Apple Care expired, unless I purchased help... this frustrated me because every where I found my problem and a different solution their Apple Care had expired too.... so had to set an appt at an Apple store.
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I find it odd that both the oxc install disk and applications disk would be damaged at the same time when they both previously worked. I called the Apple Store where I took it to talk to the geniuses that worked on it because I had a question about the repair they did....
Apple: I'm sorry we don't offer tech support
Me: I understand but I had a question about the repair done from there the other day
Apple: We are just a store and can't answer tech questions
Me: I understand and get that but since I took my mac to your store to be worked on I thought I could ask the person that worked on it a question about the 'software repair' and meaning and what software was repaired
Apple: No you will have to set another apt to bring your computer in if you are still having problems
Me: UGHHHHHH (pulling hair out)
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Why is it, only the osx install and application disks not working now? They worked before taking it to Apple
What can I do at this point?
Can you do a factory restore without disks on a Mac?
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I remember one time I was having a similar problem and don't ask my why I did it but I actually could not get it to install a system. I removed both of my ram sticks, shut the computer down for about 10 minutes including unplugging it from the wall plug, then reinstalled the ram, plugged it back in and started up from the system disk and all worked just fine. To this day I have no idea if pulling the ram helped but I have never had to do it since and for some dumb reason that solved the problem I was having, which is the same problem you are having now. Call it voodoo but it worked.
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I noticed the Apple TV I just bought for my Living Room hadn't updated to 1.1 even though I'd ran the installer a couple of weeks ago. So I tried running it again - I gave it the "Update Now" prompt, it restarted and when it rebooted I was still stuck on 1.0.
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The other day, while watching a movie, my Apple TV 1st gen just froze and became unresponsive to any remote control inputs. My intital attempts to just remove power and startup again failed and resulted in repeated crashes and renewed startups. On the discussions here ( Re: Apple TV 1st gen Factory Restore Problems ) I found out how to force restart by holding down the 'menu' key and the ' - ' key simultaneously. This brought me to the Recovery Menu.
Restart from there didn't work, only resulted in coming back to the recovery menu.
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Factory Restore immediately brought up a failure message that factory restore was not possible!
I tried this several times but always the same result. My trusted Apple TV first generation had mysteriously turned itself into a brick.
After searching the web and trying all kinds of things, I figured out how to save it. Here's how:
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Hello,
I have the old 1st gen iPad with 3G and a 64gb hard drive, and have had it for 4-5 years. My problem is, after a crash I was asked to do a reset. I did, and now the iPad will not turn on. The apple logo comes onto the screen and it will stay like that until the iPads battery has died.
I was thinking that a factory restore could fix the problem but I get an error when I plug my iPad into the laptop. "iTunes could not connect to this iPad. An unknown error occurred. (0xE8000012)."
I was thinking that when my iPad crashed, a file may have corrupted. But my question is, how can I fix this problem or at least how can I do a factory restore?
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Factory restore

hi, I'm holding on to the above mentioned.(forgot is it 8930/8390) i do not know if there is still warranty or not. as i bought it 2nd hand. i did notburn any back up too. i am facing problem with system factory restore. tried F11 upon startup.(could not oot therecovery page even when i pressed F11 repeatedly) tried looking for hp recovery manger.(i do not have this in windows) Please do help with how should i go about doing the factory restore. Thank you very much!

Did you try to access Rescue and Recovery by tapping the Lenovo Care botton (the button that looks like a toolbox next to the power button) at boot? If you are able to do this, you should be able to restore your unit to the factory settings.
However, if this doesnt work and you didn't create your own recovery media before this incident happened, you'd be better off calling Lenovo tech support and obtaining a copyof the recovery CDs. They should be able to assist in this case.
shawie60 wrote:
I've downloaded and installed the latest recovery cd and installed that but it tells me there isnt data there, yet ive seen the img files. Is there anyway I can manually start the factory recovery process or is there something on the lenovo site that will do this for me?
These CDs that you downloaded/installed. Are they speciifc to you machine type or model? Either way, you're still better off calling Lenovo to get the original OEM CDs. Then once you get the CDs, you should be ok.
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Thanks for the ideas, but...
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