Lenovo G560, Windows 8 and Hiren's Boot program

I installed Windows 8 on my Lenovo G560 and one partition of my Harddisk has some errors. I have tried repairing it with the Windows Repair Utility program but the drive errors continue to occur. Previously when my machine was running on Windows 7, I used the Hiren's Boot 15.1 to repair any harddisk errors. However, since upgrading my laptop to Windows 8, Hiren's seems to fail to work citing time out when trying to read the Harddisk. I have no idea why. I was hoping if anyone has used another version of Hiren's on a Windows 8 that has worked perfectly to assist me. Any help will be much appreciated.

Hi
Welcome To Lenovo Community
We are really sorry to hear about the issue you are facing,
Please try using the Lenovo Hard drive Quick test
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-70578
You may also refer below thread explaining how to use inbuilt hard disk scan of windows 8
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/windows-8-new-disk-error-checking-feature/
Do give this a try and let us know
Hope This Helps
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Lenovo G560 - Issue with won't boot and black screen after HDD upgrade

Lenovo G560 - Issue with won't boot and black screen after HDD upgrade.
What happen: My laptop was working fine, no blue screen issue, no funny business at all. I bought a new SSD Intel 120 GB and thought it would be a good idea to replace the HDD. I shutdown and disconnected the power adapter, waited a couple of minutes and removed the battery. I opened up the back case and replaced the HDD. And put all the screws back and put the battery back in.
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2. I tried putting back my old 2.5" and nothing but black screen.
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Hi Autoexit173,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per the query we understood that you are facing issue with system not booting in your Lenovo G560 laptop.
As you have mentioned that the system not booting, please try to remove the RAM and turn on the system and check if you can hear any beep sound. Also try to clean the RAM slots and check for the issue.
Click here for the steps to remove the RAM and refer page number 40.
Hope this helps. Do post back if issue persists!
Best regards,
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ACPI\VPC2004 Unknown Device - Lenovo g560 windows 7 pro. x64 installed

I just bought Lenovo g560. And installed windows 7 pro. x64 and installed drivers from driver cd shipped with laptop (windows 7 drivers). After installed all drivers still I had one device unknown ; device id = Acpi\Vpc2004. In the Windows 7 solution center, there was message about download energycut and install. I downloaded and install energycut. But nothing changed and power management option program not working too.
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Actually there very interesting situation, there is any driver or support about lenovo g560 on lenovo global support site. And auto detect is not working too.
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I googled this: "ACPI\VPC2004 Unknown Device"
Third hit was THIS at another Lenovo forum.
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Bluetooth not found in my lenovo g560 windows 8.1 64bit

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hi RAJUPUROHIT,
Welcome to the Forums.
Prior to installing Windows 8.1, were you able to use the bluetooth functionality before?
If bluetooth was working before you upgraded to Win8.1, try the following:
Turn off the computer and remove the AC adapter and battery.
Press and hold the power button for 30secs then reconnect the AC adapter and battery.
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Let me know how it goes.
Regards
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Lenovo G560 Hibernation AND Sleep DISABLED

Hello !
My Lenovo G560 laptop HIBERNATION and SLEEP modes availability are DISABLED and I cannot get my laptop into any of these modes !
It used to work and stopped working all of a sudden ! I don't know why!!
Please help me I have the onboard Intel graphics, 32bit version no bluetooth and the all regular simple Lenovo G560. I'm not a great computer informative so please don't ask any difficult questions but help me with working solutions !
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Hi Barakp.
This short video will show you how to re-enable sleep/hybernate on your laptop!.
It seems there is no option to add video so i will send send via PM.
Tried to PM you but can`t add video... So here goes.
Click start then open control panel.
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Mac, Windows, and Fedora on Boot Camp?

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I've been reading this wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Win … _Dual_Boot to get a better understanding of what I need to do to install Arch along side of my XP installation and there's one point that I don't understand. Here it is
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hi chaushev,
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Would I be able to use the same external hard drive for Windows and OSX?

I plan to get an external HD to put a lot of my multimedia files on and for backups but I don't know if I'll need an individual one for each operating system. I am going to be running a MacBook Pro with both Windows and OSX through Boot Camp.

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Lenovo G560 and windows 8.1

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hi rohit2276,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I tried checking the drivers on the Intel Websie for chipset drivers,
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Error In Installing Windows XP in Lenovo G560

Hi,
I am using lenovo G560 with Windows 7. Now i don't want to use it any more. so i decide to install Windows XP like normally in Desktops as i had used desktops only.
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Hello everyone!
I am using Lenovo G460, i guess it is not that different from G560 for the purposes of this discussion.
I had the same problem with a blue screen. I changed settings in BIOS from AHCI to Compatible and installed XP. After that I updated BIOS from within the XP, installed all the drivers, including the AHCI driver from Lenovo website.
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Should i now always stay with my settings as Compatible in BIOS and, therefore, never be able to use such features as NCQ and hot swapping? I repeat, that I don't know anything about AHCI or Compatible mode, but I figure that AHCI is better.
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