One key recovery partition

Hello!
I purchased an SSD hard drive to replace the old hard drive. The SSD is now the C: with operation system and D: (actual work files) partition from size 50~50% of the total disk space. The totally formatted old hard drive is the E: (archive files) part.
I want to use the recovery, but the lenovo's default recovery partition is missing. Can I create one somehow?
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Zoltan! Hello and welcome,
There is a thread about this somewhere on the boards, but I can't find it at the moment
I did find a page off-site that may help (I haven't tried this myself): How to restore Onekey Recovery function after changing partition size. (Y580 and maybe others)
Regards,
Z.
(No my name isn't really Zoltan, and I'm not a Gypsy. It was the only user name left on the internet...)
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One Key Recovery Partition Size

Hello,
I am attempting to do a system backup using OKR. The estimated image size is 31.4 GB and the available hard disk space is 21.8 GB. What should I do?
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Use an external HD or DVDs.
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Delete One Key Recovery partiton (Y500)

Has anybody tried deleting the One Key Recovery partition from an IdeaPad with Win8 or 8.1? I would like to clean up my HDD and since I've already resized the C: drive, I believe OKR will not work anymore. I have backup disks and don't care to keep OKR around anyway. I've been poking around for a while and I believe the hidden partiton between the C: and D: partitions contains OKR (since I can't figure out what else it would be). It's shown as an unlabeled 350 MB Recovery partiton in Disk Management. I just want to verify that it's OKR and is safe to delete if I don't want to use it anymore. It's the partition circled in red in this image (ignore the linux/recovery stuff, I posted it originally in another thread): Link to picture.
Thanks!
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Ugh... Ok. So I take it there isn't really any way I can move this/back it up?
Here is the command output. I dont' really know what it means, I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of Windows.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
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Recovery image location:
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How to obtain data for one key recovery

good morning.
sorry for my bad english but, I'm french....
I have a LENOVO G560 since 3 or 4 years.
I have a probleme with "one key recovery" partition.
I had re-size differents partitions, and I could'nt use one key recovery... I had an error message.
so, I had re-installed windows 7, and now, I 'm looking for data to restore the origin instalation...
Can I found CD or DVD with factory configuration ?
thank you ang good day.

Hi
Welcome to the forums
Since you have resized the partition, one key recovery wont work. You can take a look here but i cannot guarantee that it will work
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/How-to-use-one-key-recovery-after-it-stops-...
If this does not work for you, you will have to order them from lenovo.
Regards
Ishaan Ideapad Y560(i3 330m), Hp Elitebook 8460p!(i5-2520M) Hp Pavilion n208tx(i5-4200u)
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Lenovo G460 Windows 7 One Key Recovery with a Linux Partition

Hi All,
I recently bought a Lenovo G460 Notebook and installed linux on it to dual boot with WIndows 7. There was a problem with sound which I got fixed and everything is working fine now.
My question is:
Will me linux partition be there as it is If I recover the windows 7 partition using one key recovery?
How to create a rescue disk from One key recovery?
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Hi nilankaraja,
To create a rescue disk :: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/onekey_recovery_46_user_guide.pdf
On part of the Linux partition, are you asking if the partition will be saved ? Or is it something else?
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Hardisk partition and one key recovery problem

Hi All,
I am new to to the lenovo community. I recently bought a lenovo G series machine( G550 model #298595Q preloaded with Windows vista and 320 GB HDD) . surprisingly The C: drive contained 254 GB of the total available 284 GB and D: drive had the remaining space. I wanted to inistall linux, I had to partition the C:drive and no where in the lenovo mannual it is warned against the resizing C
I used a partition software called "paragon" to resize my C: drive. My system hanged while running the process and after a long wait I had to shutdown my system and after that my OS was not loading.So I decided to recover my vista using one key recovery. I tried the back up I stored in D: drive and in DVD and it is giving an error message that "not enough space in the system" and in the one key recovery menu the target location of the one key recovery is showing to D: drive but my preloaded vista was installed in C: drive and also it is showing the total free space as 298 GB)
Could any one help me to get my vista back.( why the target location of one key recovery is showing to D
or is there any way to increase the D: partition from boot setup). Please help me.
and also my warranty is valid , since I touched my C: drive( no where it is warned against that)?

I have posted this somewhere else, but it involves Win7, see if this helps:
What I can tell you is that I spent a lot of time as well trying to mend the soft/partitioning and to get rid of bloatware!
In short: I did a clean reinstall + recovered my OEM activation + partitioned the HDD as I wanted. Now it looks and reacts familiar (I used XP as well, before).
BEWARE: trying partitions managers as Easeus or Paragon has blocked my partitions - they seem to be "coded" somehow.
Do not hesitate: after you backup activation erase totally HDD (I used killdisc) and all shall be gone and you start fresh.
Get a Win 7 serching for "digitalriver" Get ABW for activation restoring Get drivers from Lenovo support, install only what you need by function not all of them!

One Key Recovery 8.0 - windows 8.1 - create new partitions

Dear Members,
Looks like I am again back to the start of the loop regarding the one key recovery after checking with Lenovo customer support. Can you help me on the below. However, I still feel that the well documented procedures for One Key Recovery 8.0 is missing rather than just explaining the navigation. I have z50-70 59436412 laptop with prebuilt windows 8.1
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Is it mandatory to create a recovery media pendrive with bootable OS? As per Customer support "YOU NEED TO MAKE A RECOVERY MEDIA PENDRIVE WITH BOOTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM AS CHANGING THE NUMBER OF PARTITIONS WILL BREAK THE OKR METHOD AND OKR WILL NOT WORK!!! i.e., I will not be able to reset my laptop to factory settings when I create more partitions. Can some one confirm this? Also, if I make a bootable OS, and during restore doesn't it prompt for a key to make the windows OS as genuine?? Can I make a bootable OS on multiple DVDs (as one DVD isn't enough)? Is the approach same as in the case of making on one DVD?
I haven't took the system backup. I want to make more partitions (shrink C volume and create 5 more partitions for easy maintenance). Will I be able to restore my system back to factory settings (using NOVA key) eventhough there is number of partitions mis-match (initially 2, now around 6 paritions)? I am not worried about my data, as I will have backup of important files into external hard disk which I will restore later using other software
Can I have partition based backup and restore using OKR 8.0?
If I have a system image after creating all the partitions then will I be able to restore using this image without issues?
Say if the harddisk is crashed and I have the backup image on external OS. Can I restore the image back on the new harddisk? Should the number of partitions be same? Also, should the size of each partition also be same?
Suppose I have a partition on harddisk itself to store backup images (img1,2,3,4,5) and when I need to restore to image 3, and after successful restore, I am sure that will loose the image 4 and image 5 on this partition. Can I be able to restore my system to say image 2 if needed in future when I am running on image 3. Also, is there any limit on the number of system restore for a specific image?
Awaiting your suggestions. Sorry, if this is been asked repeatedly by any others.
Thanks,
Cheeli.
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Disclaimer: I dont use OKR .
Based on the documentation and posts I have read about OKR, it requires your HDD partitions to remain the same size as factory shipped. What the Lenovo customer support center stated to you is correct! ANY change to the C or D partitions sizes will cause OKR to FAIL. (there are posts stating such failure after changing the partition sizes).
The OKR create recovery media is designed to work with a Pendrive. It will not work with a DVD.
You could try running Windows backup with the backup being stored on the C drive or on a second HDD/usb,etc.
FYI. A HDD can only hold 4 regular partitions. Above 4, you would have to allocate EXTENDED partitions.

Lenevo ideapad s410 one key recovery service partition fails

HiRecently i extend my C: drive by using the Mini Tools Partition wizard and also format and delete partition of my other data partition but i dint change any system or recovery partition. After doing that i cant recover from One key recovery,it says that cant find the service partition. Also i cant take any system backup. Can anyone help me recover this

Hi anup002,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
The OKR system depends on the Partition ID's of the HDD, Shrinking or Extending a Partition may render the OKR Not to work.
Restoring the OKR after a partition change may be a hard work.
Please check this Article.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/how-to-restore-onekey-recovery-function-after-changing-partition-size-y580-and-maybe-others.688883/
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Lenovo G550 move partition to new HDD (including one key recovery)

Hi guys.
I have a Lenovo G550 laptop.
I am looking to change out the existing stock HDD with a new SSD drive (from what I understand from other Lenovo support services, it is SATA II compatible (see http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/Lenovo-G550-HDD-SATA-I-or-SATA-II/ta-p/692351)...
Firstly. Is it possible to change the stock HDD with an SSD drive? I have a budget of about $100 AUD so it would only be a 60-120gb HDD. Would 60gb be enough (I really only need about 30gb of space on the c: drive), or would I need to look at the 120gb option.
Secondly, is there any way of migrating the entire contents of the existing HDD to the SSD HDD?
I have the ability to connect them both externally, and a spare blank 1TB HDD that I can use in the interim if needs be.
Ultimately I would like the SSD drive to have the one key boot partition and the original Windows on it. I don't mind loosing all my programs and files - I can back them up and install them in my leisure.
To complicate matters, my DVD drive isn't working (but I do have an external DVD drive I may be able to use, even possibly booting from. But not 100% sure if I can boot from it!)
And to further complicate matters, the laptop has recieved quite a bit of use, so the sticker with the product key number has been worm off. Argh!
Thank-you in advance for the assistance.
Cheers,
Dale.

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Firstly. Is it possible to change the stock HDD with an SSD drive? I have a budget of about $100 AUD so it would only be a 60-120gb HDD. Would 60gb be enough (I really only need about 30gb of space on the c: drive), or would I need to look at the 120gb option.
Yes 60GB would be enough.
Secondly, is there any way of migrating the entire contents of the existing HDD to the SSD HDD?
I have the ability to connect them both externally, and a spare blank 1TB HDD that I can use in the interim if needs be.
Just done this with a G770.
Simply back up all the HD with Acronis or something to your 1TB disk. Not sure how you would connect this. USB would be best.
Exchange the laptop HD for the SSD
Boot Acronis with the CD and Restore your backup.
Works fine.
You'll have to check the bios to see if you can boot from Ext DVD.

How to use one key recovery-help!

this is a follow to my querry last time since the machine that i have doesnt have the original OS installed contrary to what is indicated in its COA.
i went to disk management and found these 5 drives:
non-letter drive Healthy (OEM Partition) 14.75 GB
C: (system, boot,..., primary partition) 97.56 GB
E: (Primary Partition) 324.35 GB
LENOVO (D): Logical Drive
unallocated drive of 101 MB
what is a logical drive by the way?
does it mean that i still have the Original OS? how will i use the One Key Recovery?
Thanks in Advance...God Bless!

Is there a OneKey Rescue System button on your PC? Did you create backup disks?

Software for Power Switch Control and One Key Recovery for Windows 8?

Hi. I have recently upgraded to windows 8 with a clean install. I was wondering if there is software to get the power switch control software back so I can set it to auto, turbo or cool because without it I think using the switch is useless. I also would like to know if there is a way to get one key recovery back.

I can't use the One Key Recovery of my Y2P anymore, as I decreased the size of the C partition in favour of increasing D:\Data
OKR won't even start anymore...
Any chance to get OKR working again if I make these partitions the same sizes?
Who has the exact partition sizes in MB of the Y2P 20266 with Samsung PM851 256 GB SSD?
0 1 MB NO_NAME unallocated
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3 1000 MB LRS_ESP FAT32
4 128 MB NO_NAME Other
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7 14135 MB PBR_DRV NTFS Recovery
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Data is backupped daily and I already have a full system backup together with a bootable USB stick that has been tested.
But I like to make sure I can reinstall Windows in the future..
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Solved! Fix / Repair Nova Button / One Key Recovery after replacing SSD - Walkthru! Yoga 2 Pro

I created this full walkthru for people who upgrade / or replace their hard drive / SSD drive on the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro or other Lenovo products that has the Nova button - One Key recovery solution. I did this on my Yoga 2 Pro. So it should work perfectly for those owners for others I'm not certian but it should be similiar for other Lenovos.
Essentially this will rebuild your laptop back to factory settings including full nova button functionality without having to buy the lenovo recovery disks. It took me several days to piece this together from everything on the web into an easy to follow step by step process so I hope you appreciate / enjoy it And I hope it saves you lots of time.
The process is not that hard but you are completely wiping your hard drive yourself. All your data will be gone. Bear this in mind. You have to be bold enough to try it. And it's not for the faint of heart.
Read through the whole thing first before doing it step by step.
Here we go.
There are a lot of steps but it's a fairly simple process.
Requirements at least 2 USB sticks - One 4 GB or more
Necessary Files:
1. Okr8 Engineer - Wipes the hard drive and creates the necessary paritions to bring Lenovo drive back to initial state.
This is the file you really need.
Download here:
http://www.filedropper.com/win8okr80withoutos > my personal upload <
https://torrent.pl/de/0438900090510,lenovo-okr8-one-key-recovery-8 or do a search for OKR8.
2. Power Iso - Properly burns Okr8 on a bootable USB for installation purposes.
http://www.poweriso.com/
3. Download copy of Windows 8.1 OEM version - Wish I had found this link before!
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
For the Yoga Pro 2 you do not need the Windows 8.1 serial as it's imprinted directly onto the bio for others laptops laptops. Use produkey to find you're serail if you lost it you don't have a Bio embedded laptop: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html
4. Get Necessary Lenovo Drivers - Easily accessible on the Lenovo website. Just go and download the drivers you need for you laptop.
Links to hard to find drivers
Veriface 4.0 : https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Yoga-Flex-Laptops-and/Veriface-Download/td-p/1459391
Dolby v4 : http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds027444
First section:
1. Download the OKR8 file. You'll need to install utorrent or bitorrent if you downloaded it as a torrent and not my personal file.
2. Download, Install, then Open PowerISO.
3. Select - Tools - Create Bootable USB drive - Select Yes to Run as administrator - Find the OKR 8.iso on your hard drive and burn to the USB stick.
4. Next create the windows 8.1 usb stick as well. Download Windows 8.1: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
5. Run the Microsoft file and select English > Windows 8.1 and > 64 bit
6. Burn the Windows 8.1 to USb through the software.
7. Relax and have a coffee while it creates the usb stick.
8. Download and save the necessary lenovo drivers onto another USB stick, external hard drive or onto one of the 2 USB sticks you are already using. Valuable if you only have one computer.
Please note: You install all this stuff at your own risk. Propertly back up and save all your old personal data first onto an external hard drive. This process will wipe everything off your drive, including all the paritions (including the old recovery parition if you have one there) and you'd won't be able to get it back.
Having access to two computers is helpful. But if done property you should be good with one. I will not be responsible for any mishaps. This is cowboy computing. Typically for people with too much time on their hands or who are obsessive compulsive types
Second section:
1. Turn off computer.
2. Press Nova button, wait, enter into Bios. Goto to boot mode and switch boot from UEFI only to 'legacy mode". This allows you to boot to the OKR 8 USB your prepared.
3. Shut down computer
4. Insert OKR 8 USB
5. Press Nova button again - Select Boot- Select - USB drive with OKR 8 on it.
6. Let the OKR 8 USB load. - A Windows 8 screen comes up.
7. Once it loads click the check mark and hit the button with chinese letters. This whole software is in Chinese and not in English. Don't worry.
8. Wait patiently. It will say 'done' but it's not all done until the popup windows appears and says All Done. Then REMOVE the usb and reboot.
9. Important* - Reboot the computer and let the OKR 8 software load and install on the recovery parition - It finishes the installation after you reboot. It will reboot again and load into the One Key Recovery Panel software.
Yay! Now select shutdown from the One Key Recovery environment.
10. Press Nova button again > enter bio > and switch back to UEFI mode. *Important* If you try to install Windows through USB legacy mode. You will get a GPT error when trying to install windows onto the hard drive.
11. Shutdown again.
12. Insert the Windows 8.1 USB. Press the Nova button again. Select Boot Options: Boot from the Windows 8.1 USB.
13. Windows 8.1 loads. Select Install.
14. Choose Custom Install and Install Windows 8.1 to Parition 5 - "Windows8_OS"
15. Let Windows Install. Remove USB stick when asked.
16. Reboot. Go through standard windows setup. Install all drivers and program you want in preparation to save the intial factory recovery state.
17. Get your yoga 2 pro or laptop up to the initial specifications you want and then shut down.
Section 3:
1. Now it's time to create the initial backup onto the hidden recovery parition so you can reset the laptop back to inital specs whenever you wish including when you want to sell or give away the laptop..
2. From a shutdown state - Goto system recovery through novo button again.
3. Once it's loaded press CTRL+Shift+O to pull up the command prompt window (Shift + F10 was previously suggested. It did not work for me, maybe on older machines)
4. At the command prompt type in: diskpart
5. type: list volume
6. Look for the letter of volume that is labelled PBR_DRV (eg. H) - This is the hidden Lenovo recovery partition where the initial factory backup image will be saved to.
7. type exit
8. type: H: or whatever volume it is.
9. Your directory should change to H:
10. Type: cd onekey\osimage > This takes you to the correct directory.
11.. You're almost at the end!
12.. Type: osimage /nopbr
13. Type: osimage /fb
14. Wait ten minutes while the initial backup is saved onto the hidden recovery parition
15.. Profit!
16. type exit - Reboot - You're Good to Go.
17. Rock On!
18. Enjoy Life again.
Lots of work but worth it in the end !
Should also work for when windows 10 comes out.

As far as I can tell, Windows 8.1 is merely an windows update, so the license key from your BIOS should still work. If you already updated your machine to Windows 8.1, and a fresh install of 8.1 didn't complain about license key, then you should be able to create a new recovery image from it. For Windows 10, if I am not mistaken, when you upgrade from Windows 7/8/8.1, some hardware ID is stored on a MS server to flag this machine has a windows 10 license, to make it possible to perform fresh windows 10 install in the future if needed. This means if you never have windows 10 installed, then you cannot use it to build the recovrey image (the key from BIOS won't work). But if you have 10 installed, you can always activate it during the process of creating recovery image. Once again, all these are based on my knowledge and I haven't attempt to do them, so I cannot tell if this will definitely work. Try it and let us know

Ideacenter K330B One Key Recovery External Hard Drive

Hello, a few months back I made a full backup of my system to an external hard drive. I reached a point where it was just easiest to start my computer over using the One Key Recovery. I had to go with the factory settings at least temporarily. Is there anyway I can use the external hard drive backup to restore my stystem? The One Key system doesn't seem to agree with it.
Thank you for any replies.
Sorry if there is a post like this elsewhere. I tried to see if their was and didn't see any that applied directly to what I needed.

hi Nutcracker,
When you tried to restore your backup using OneKey Recovery, are you getting any specific error message?
Can you also try to:
1. Format the external HDD with NTFS (move your OneKey Recovery backup to another computer first)
2. Make external HDD's the partition active and copy back the OneKey Recovery backup image
3. Boot into OneKey Recovery 7.0 and try to restore your backup.
Let me know your findings
Regards,
neokenchi
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One Key Recovery

My G560 was puschased in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by a friend last March 2012 and was brought here in the Philippines and was given to me. the COA sticker says it has Windows 7 Home Basic OS but when i opened it, it has Win 7 Ultimate installed. now i'm getting a windows not genuine notification.
i also found out that my disk drive 3 partitions, C, D, E.
i would like to revert my machine to its supposed original OS but i don't have the original installation CDs that is why i'm thinking of using the One Key Recovery.
will this revert my OS to its original state?will it affect my important files (located in partition E of the drive) should i choose the One key recovery?
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You might want to search
MiniTools Partition Wizard, I would recommend you dont use it to do anything with partition size or changing any mbr or partition info.
MiniTools will allow you to look in that 14.75 hidden partition and see if the OneKey Recovery image is there... Sounds like its there. Shows zero bytes used in the disk management, but will have maybe 9gb oem image in it or several chained, to make your drive back to new.... exept I dont know how it will handle that logical partition..
Little hard for me to figure out what you've written there. 5 drives ???? I assume the 97gb is marked Active.
I am concerned your D unalocated drive is saying Logical. It should be same simple basic disk NTFS as the others. That is where the backup lenovo OKR was originally and where your backups normally might be if you dont have a remote drive to do backups to.
or to keep data files or whatever you want there.
I dont know if i should tell you or not, because again I don't know exactly what you have... but back it up... push the one key button. - see if it offers to restore it to new.
If nothing really is in that unallocated partition marked logical... maybe do some web reading see if you can turn it back to a simple basic vollume first.

One key recovery is not working in g560

i had deleted the partition D... now i m having two os linux and windows 7..
when i m pressing the one key recovery button it willl display the msg like
x:/windows/system32>
how can i clear this problem..

run one key recover under windows, burn recovery dvds then use them.
probably linux installation has deleted some system files.

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