IdeaTab A2109A will not boot past Lenovo Splash screen

Tablet was charging over night, early in the morning I heard a couple of beeps, and thought it was my phone. After waking I turned on the Tablet and first saw a green circle with 100%, then after trying the power switch again, it booted to the Lenovo splash screen with the audio and color bar, but will not boot to the operating system.

I gave up and sent the Tablet into Grapevine, Texas under warranty.

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Here is my problem and here is the solution!!!
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AT THIS POINT YOU SHOULD NOT BE ANGRY FRUSTRATED OR PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND STOP AND THINK WHAT ACTUALLY WAS HAPPENING WHEN YOU LAST USED YOUR PC.
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I thought this was the method I used before but I followed through it and it was a horrific fail. "Operating system not found". Can anyone help?
http://superuser.com/questions/421402/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-windows-os-us ing-mac-os-x
Steps To Achieve Victory
Download the ISO you want to use
Open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities)
Convert .iso to .img using hdiutil:
hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/target.img /path/to/source.iso
Rename if OS X gave it a .dmg ending:
mv /path/to/target.img.dmg path/to/target.img
Type diskutil to get a list of currently connected devices
Insert USB drive you want to use
Run diskutil again to see what your USB stick gets assigned eg - /dev/disk3
Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (where N is the number assigned to your USB stick, in previous example it would be 3)
Run sudo dd if=/path/to/target.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m (if you get an error, replace bs=1m with bs=1M
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I am having a major problem with my MacBook Pro and it just wont boot past the apple loading screen at all
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Go to Solution.

First try and see if it's not a lenovo little bug that happens to a lot people:
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I have started up my machine today and its displaying the grey screen and is not booting any futher.
The machine is only 2 Months old, its a :
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Any ideas?, It was fine yesterday now nothing
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Try this article.
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Intel iMac will not boot past gray screen

Intel iMac will not boot past gray screen
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new (month old) 24" intel imac, 2.8 ghz, 4 gb ram.
running: leopard (upgraded from tiger, which was pre-installed at purchase), installed 10.5.1 update right before this huge problem occurred.
install discs on-hand: two-disc tiget set, single leopard upgrade disc.
what led to this:
i wanted to install windows using bootcamp on a 50 gb partition.
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booting with option key held down: gray screen
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My iMac will not boot past the logo and spinning gear

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