LENOVO G550 HOW TO LOCATE BATERIE BACKUP CMOS

I THINK. MY LAPTOP NEEDS A BACKUP BATERIE FOR THE CMOS,i already tryed,to find it,by openning,the backside of the laptop,but i can't situate the baterie!can someone,please tell me, where,i can find it?THANK YOU

Hi Xixa,
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I’m sorry to inform you that replacing the CMOS battery is not recommended by the end user as it may affect other internal parts of the Laptop, below is the image of how a CMOS battery in a laptop looks like.
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The advantages you will get will be: A: You will get use of your entire hard drive space. B: It will be much easier to manage and back up. C: Using Acronis to backup your drive will be simple D: If you ever lose data you can simply use Acronis to restore the directory or data file, or E: If you lose your entire hard drive you simply get a new one and then restore from the Acronis CD and point it to your last backup image.
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I've bought Lenovo G550 (without OS) and by mistake deleted my Service Partition, which contains files for OneKey recovery utility. I've searched forum, but hasn't found anything exact.
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I'd really appreciate if someone was there to assist, or just providing some more information about this problem.
Sorry for my English.
Thanks a lot !

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Just as I am ready to throw in the towel to restoring the factory WIN7 image I find a solution. It's not the best solution but it is a functional one for this purpose. The irony here is incredible: the one key word I failed to include in my search for rescue or recovery options was this: ONEKEY!
I would have saved myself COUNTLESS HOURS of head-banging and frustration had ANY of the forum posts I read included this information so it is my hope that THIS post will help prevent such for future users who encounter a similar situation.
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Lenovo OneKey Recovery for Microsoft Windows 7(64-bit) - Lenovo G550
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F11 functionality remains broken so this option will not work for anyone wishing to recover the current OS unless they happen to make regular backups from which to recover from. I won't even get into the discussion as to WHY Lenovo uses different recovery products for different systems. I also do not feel this work-around absolves Lenovo from creating a utility to manage their proprietary boot manager/MBR. I'm just happy to put this issue to rest once and for all. I will not be recommending Lenovo products to family, friends, colleagues, or clients in the future. Best of luck to those who do!
Lesson learned!

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