How do I recover my recovery drive?

Today I reset my windows 8.1 laptop( Lenovo g50-45 ) and it erased all my drives including my drivers drive. I have no idea why my recovery drive is lost, Because when I open disk managment it shows that recovery drives exist but have no data on it. How can I recover my recovery disk partition and get one key recovery working again.

There may be a way to boot from a disk- Partition Wizard Bootable CD comes to mind-to format the drive and make it bootable, then copy contents of Recovery partition to the hdd- no additional partitions since Recovery creates them. With a large amount of luck the drive 'might' then boot into Recovery.
You really need Recovery Disks to ease the process. If you never made your set you can call HP to see if they are still available to order.
If you live in the US/CA, contact HP info Here.
If you live in another part of the world, start here>>Contact HP
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Depends what year and whether yours came with Lion (2011 and later) or not.
Whether you know how to reinstall Liion. But what happens when you hold Option key or Command-r when you startup? you can't boot into Lion Recovery? And do you have TimeMachine? an external backup drive?
Lion Recovry & TimeMachine
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
General Time Machine Stuff:
Time Machine vs. Clones and Archives
How Time Machine Works its Magic
Time Machine’s Gory Details:
https://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/
How To Restore Your System
http://pondini.org/TM/14.htmlMac OS X v10.7 Lion
Frequently Asked Questions
Troubleshooting
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General purpose Mac troubleshooting guide: Isolating issues in Mac OS X
Creating a temporary user to isolate user-specific problems: Isolating an issue by using another user account
Identifying resource hogs and other tips: Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Starting the computer in "safe mode": Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
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Hi, John. Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
I'm sorry, but I don't even know what a "C: drive" is.
Which exact iBook model is it?
You can choose from this list:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/index-ibook.html
Which version of the operating system is (was) installed?
What operating system discs do you have available to you?

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If you have lost your recovery key then unfortunately there is nothing to do, it can be regenerated but that will cause all data in sync to be deleted. You could try syncing your phone, then disconnecting it from sync, create a new sync account and connect your phone to send the data to that account, but there is a potential for the data to be lost there as well. sorry.

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I've had an internal HD corrupt in my new Mac Pro, and I'm wondering what I can do to recover the data. I've looked at this several posts including this one listing 3 data recovery software apps:
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Lawrence,
The same has happened to my gf's iMac. She has 27" iMac mid 2011 and today the drive went down. Instead of 1TB HD with two partitions Disk Utility lists it as "4.14 GB ST_M13FQBL Media" with no partitions. On top of that there is a strange noise generated - I believe this is fan related.
It took me a while to workout what the heck was going on with it as Apple Hardware Testing (AHT) does not list any problems. Initially I thought that MBR was wiped due to Windows 7 service pack installation, but when run Disk Utility I realized that there is something wrong with HD.
Apple started replacement program for faulty Seagate HDs for iMac sold between late 2009 and mid 2011. Unfortuantely her iMac is not eligible, but luckilly it is still on warranty. More details about the recall can be found here http://www.apple.com/uk/support/imac-harddrive/
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Lawrence, it would be great if you shared your experience on recovering the data from that drive. My gf does not want to turn her iMac to Apple service yet as she wants to get her data back from the drive. I am planning to run some data recovery apps against that HD, and if nothing, I will send the HD to Seagate Recovery Services and hope to get it done for free as it is their faulty drives.
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http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689

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I have a MacBook Pro that is two years old. I tried to start the laptop and it hung up on the gray screen with the apple icon. So I inserted the snow leopard install cd and I was able to start the computer and gain access the utilities. I tried the verify disk utility and it said the hard drive needed to be repaired. Ok. I tried the repair disk utility and it said that it was unable to repair the disk. What?? The message then said to backup the files and erase the disk. Ok since I have used Time Machine I figured that I have the necessary backups, so I tried to erase the disk using the utility. It said it could not erase the disk. ?? Then I tried to simply restore the disk using Time Machine but got a message saying there was insufficient memory to do this. So now what I am supposed to do? I can't erase the disk. And I can't restore it. Help!!!!

When in the SL Install media's Disk Utility, click on the internal hard drive device on the left column, and check the S.M.A.R.T. status as listed on the bottom of DU's window. If it says anything different from Verified, drive is toast. Either get it replaced under warranty, or get a brand, spankin' new 1TB model and put it in yourself. Or get an SSD if the wallet allows and see the Mac blaze at astounding speeds.

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The first thing you should do, is, to remove the drive from its case and connect it to a controller using its native interface.
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There is no update for the recovery partition available for your notebook on the web support portal for your notebook.
The recovery dpartition provides a copy and the means of reinstallation for the licensed OS, applications and software your notebook was delivered with.
In short, unless HP provides an updated recovery partition via an update softpaq, what you have is all there is.
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Is it dead or corrupt? There are recovery programs out there, however if your HD is head, paying pros to do data recovery is VERY costly. Some have removed the platters and installed them in likewise drives that dont have head crashes, but torque tolerances are tight, and doing it right is a bit advanced and tricky for most. Ive done HD disk swaps 4 times and had success 3 of the 4 times. It requires cannibalizing another working HD. In the future remember the golden rule, 2 copies is 1, and one is NONE.
Its likely you could find a local computer repair station that can do it for you cheaply. HD dont really "die", they have fried SATA bus, or crashed HEADS........the platters DO demagnatize over long time due to heat and degauss of the data (poor storage, etc).........but in specific, a HARD DRIVE DOESNT DIE ,.........only the flying head mechanisms that read and write the data, and SATA / bus that feeds the data DIES,.......but the data (unless corrupt or magnetically corrupted) is THERE

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Well first you have to figure out what is wrong with the machine and solve that problem first.
Your post is very vague on what occured, and there are many types of "crashes" it really depends upon what see on the screen and what the hardware does, we can't see it to tell you, so you have to tell us.
I suggest you run through these user tips and provide more information about your hardware.
Disconnect the TimeMachine drive for now
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Help us to help you on these forums
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
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Hard drive and RAM upgrades can be handled yourself or by a outside tech in many older models of Mac, but don't expect Apple to cover the new parts.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's

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If the folder was replaced, it was written over.
Nothing short of forensic data recovery (probably involving taking the drive apart to scan the discs seperately) is going to recover anything (if indeed even that will).

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Man I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughtful and informative responses I'm receiving, thanks so much guys. @Rocky- They are shipping the laptop back to me this week, I should have it by Friday. The first thing I'll do is go into Disk management to see if the recovery drives are there. Tbh, I doubt Newegg would purposely rip me off, so I'm expecting the drives to be missing. If they're not however, I'm taking pictures and probably dancing because I'll be so happy haha. If the drives are NOT there, I'll see if I can load up OneKey Recovery, and restore my backup, and go from there. Also yes I'm sure I bought it from Newegg, no third parties. @neok- That's exactly what I was thinking! I did the OneKey Recovery, then packed the laptop up and sent it for shipping. Then I get a RMA denied and I was completely shocked. That made me wonder if you could only do the OneKey Recovery once maybe, but I contacted Lenovo and they gave me a letter, written, saying what the OneKey software does. I then forwarded this email to the supervisor at Newegg, but she told me that the fact of the matter is that the "recovery partition" is not accesible anymore, and they're not honoring my RMA unless I retreive it. They were very adament about this. Also thanks for those links, I did a few Google searches myself and those are generally what I found. The reoccuring theme in those cases seems to be people resizing their partitions. I did not do that, simply played a few games, didn't like the laptop, did a factory reest, and boom. That's all I did. If I'm unable to use OneKey Recovery when I get the laptop back this upcoming Friday, I'll consult with those links. Thanks! @Zoltan- Yeah honestly I want to be furious with Newegg, but then seeing as they're really quite strong on their grounds that I somehow deleted it, I'm trying to think back to what I did. However, I find it hard to believe that I would delete the recovery partition, even accidently, because I only had the laptop for a day, and all I was really doing was transferring my photos/music, and installing a few programs. My desperate last attempt to salvage my money will be calling Lenovo and requesting the recovery media, even if it costs $60 or up. The only problem with this is that they might take a while to ship the disc. I only have until around August 14th before Newegg's 30day return policy kicks in, although I spoke with the Newegg supervisor, and she granted me 1-2 days of grace. I could order the CD right now, before I even get the laptop shipped to me, but that's risky seeing as I might not need it at all, if I can still access the OneKey Recovery. The more I think about it though, if I explain my entire situation to Lenovo, they might send me a free CD which I could then order right now, saving me a few days, and serving as more of a precaution then anything. Thanks so much for the replies guys, last Friday was the most stressful day of my life, this RMA was denied, and then I thought about it all day at work. I think I could've been more aggressive with Newegg, but I have no real legal documentation to show them. I mean yes even if I did delete the recovery partition, which I didn't, but let's suppose I did. Deleting software is still not any means for flat out rejecting an RMA, and refusing to refund $1300. I just wish I had some sort of legal document to refer Newegg over to .

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