One Key Recovery problem

I had a problem with my G580 so i tried to reset it using onekey recovery.I started system recovery and the first 70% it worked fine(it took 20 min) But now its stuck at 70% for 8 hours. The screen isnt frozen and it says it would only take 1 sec to finish. Is it safe to turn the laptop of or restart it or what can I do ??

If it has been running for 8 hours as stated, it is locked up and will need to be restarted. You can try and use the Ctl+Alt+Delete keys to show the task manager, but if that fails the only recourse will be to turn off the system by the power button.
Good luck.

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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!

G570 One Key Recovery Problem

I am unable to launche OneKey Recovery using the button provided beside Power Button..
But i am able to launch it manually opening the .exe file..
I desperately need to format my laptop to factory settings.. please help..
Recovery Disks wont work as my Disk drive is not recognizing the discks.. :'(

hi dutch3546,
Welcome to the Lenovo Community.
From the scenario that you just described, it looks like you have a bad hard drive. The only way to make sure is to do a hardware test on the HDD (you will need another computer with an CD-DVD Drive). I personally use UltimateBootCD for the diagnostics (use the HDD diagnostic according to the brand of your HDD). Video usage here.and here. Click here for details or:follow the stes below:
1. Download the the UBCD ISO (www.ultimatebootcd.com)
2. Burn the ISO using imgburn
3. Insert the CD that you just created into the defective computer and reboot
4. Upon reboot, continuously press F12 and boot from the ODD/CD-DVD
To burn the diagnostic softwre on a flashdrive, follow this guide
Note:
If you find any errors, you will need to change the HDD. If don't have a recovery or restore disc, you can obtain one by contacting the Lenovo Technical Suport. Support phone list here.
Hope this helps.
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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?
Thanks in advance.

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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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.

Offer a Noob help? General one key recovery question

So I'm new to laptops, especially Lenovo, and when I got my laptop I had barely found out about the One Key Recovery Backup application AFTER I installed quite a few games. So I decided to make the backup but it ended up being 49GB so I put it on my Harddrive.
Now I found out that there was a partition for the backup but mine is only like 23GB. It's too late for me to make a new backup now since I have added way more stuff.
I was wondering if there is some way that I can go and delete files I had IN my backup?
The reason this backup is a problem is because I'm runing out of Hard drive memory because of this backup
Thank you

hi Andy16,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Once you created the Backup File (backup.wsi files) I don't think you can open that and delete some files in side it,
Also not Possible Doing a selective Current system Back up.
If I understand you correctly you want to do another back up aside from the First one you made (the 49GB), But right now you're running out of disk space?
Regards
Solid Cruver
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[S210 Touch] One key recovery not working

I have a 1.25 year old S210 Ideapad Touch. I made a 100GB partition with EaseUS and had no problem with onekey recovery. I tried to merge that empty partition with my C drive using EaseUS software but it did not work saying there were errors. After that attempt One Key did not work. Tried to open One Key with compter turned off, error message said damaged partition. Next I used Control panel Administrative Tools: Disk Management to return C drive to almost its original size less 350 mb. one key still did not work. I reinstalled one key from Lenovo website and still did not work. Still indicated damage partition. What can I do now?
Jim
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I found the following on a recovery disk which I made early last year for the same computer but I cant get it to boot.
How do I boot this usb flash drive without losing this material and is it used to recreate the correct partitions?
convert gpt
create partition primary size=1000
format quick fs=ntfs label="WINRE_DRV"
assign letter="W"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
create partition efi size=260
format quick fs=fat32 label="SYSTEM_DRV"
assign letter="S"
create partition efi size=1000
format quick fs=fat32 label="LRS_ESP"
assign letter="I"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
set id="bfbfafe7-a34f-448a-9a5b-6213eb736c22"
create partition msr size=128
create partition primary size=436224
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows8_OS"
assign letter="T"
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="LENOVO"
assign letter="O"
shrink minimum=12288
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="PBR_DRV"
assign letter="Q"
gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
exit
Thanks for any help,
Jim

One Key Recovery for S10-3t

I got my new s10-3t and feel that there are certain problems with Windows 7 and/or driver installation. Secondary portrait screen orientation does not work, and, even more strange, I cannot remove the Lenovo Screen Rotation program from the computer (using Control Panel) - after uninstallation it is reported to still remain there. There are other minor problems. According to Yigit's advice, I am going to perform a one key recovery (OKR) of the system in order to get clean windows and drivers.
There are several questions. Knowing the answers could help me a lot during the OKR process, since by no means I might be considered as an experienced user.
1. How to start the OSR process:
a) Use the OneKey Recovery program whose shortcut I have preinstalled on my desktop, and choose System Recovery
b) Switch off the computer and then switch it on with a small button in the upper-left corner of the keyboard
Maybe a) and b) are identical?
2. Are there any important choices (questions) that I have to make (answer) during the OKR process? I mean really important choices, not like language, time or user name choice, etc.
3. Would it be possible during to OKR process to change the size of the partitions in my hard disk? Presently I have Local disk C: - 187GB and Lenovo D: - 30GB. I would personally prefer to have C around 100GB and the rest to be D:. Disk C: should contain windows, drivers and programs, and D: my personal files, like photos, musics, movies.
4) After OKR is over, I will get the computer:
a) with Windows 7 only, no drivers at all and no Lenovo preinstalled programs
b) with Windows 7 and drivers, at least basic ones in order to get connected to Wi-Fi internet, to have sound and normal graphics
c) as it was shipped to me, with Windows, drivers and all the Lenovo preinstalled programs like VeriTouch, VeriFace, SmileDock and others, that I have already removed as useless for me.
d) Should I perform any backup prior to OKR? I have no personal files on this computer, i.e, absolutely nothing to loose. Presently I backed up (onto my flash drive) only the drivers from the Lenovo D: disk.
e) Does the system sit in \\?\Volume{64...} where it is going to get recovered from? I do not see this partition in Windows Explorer, but I do see it in Defragmenter.
Sorry that the question is quite long.
Thank you.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

lots of questions
- how to start the okr process:
options are the same, if you select it under windows, windows will restart.
- are there any important choices (questions) that I have to make (answer) during the okr process? i mean really important choices, not like language, time or user name choice, etc.
nope.if application asks click "next"
- would it be possible during to okr process to change the size of the partitions in my hard disk? presently I have local disk c: 187gb and lenovo d: 30gb. i would personally prefer to have c around 100gb and the rest to be d:. disk c: should contain windows, drivers and programs, and d: my personal files, like photos, musics, movies.
if you make changes on volumes, one key recover will stop working.
- after okr is over, i will get the computer:
c.
as it was shipped to me, with windows, drivers and all the lenovo preinstalled programs like veritouch, veriface, smiledock and others, that I have already removed as useless for me.
- should i perform any backup prior to okr? i have no personal files on this computer, i.e, absolutely nothing to loose. presently i backed up (onto my flash drive) only the drivers from the lenovo d: disk.
if you have external dvd rom, i suggest you to burn factory default backup, just in case.
- does the system sit in \\?\volume{64...} where it is going to get recovered from? i do not see this partition in windows explorer, but i do see it in defragmenter.
there's a hidden partition for system & recovery files.it's better not to see cause if you see hidden partition under windows, one key recover stops.

Lenovo G570 essential - One Key Recovery issue

Hello to everybody and congratulations for the forum. I have a Lenovo G570 notebook which is running the original version of Windows 7 that came installed with. Before I mention the problem I have to state that I have restructured the hard drive by using the program Acronis Disk Director. When I click the One Key Recovery application and choose the RECOVERY option I receive the follwing message.
"The program cannot find the service partition. The service is currently unavalaible."
After checking, I noticed a change in the Default recovery partition (the factory one) and the Windows installation partition. These partitions are not ACTIVE as before. What can I do in order to overcome this problem and achieve to restore my notebook to the factory default installation?
Regards,
LENOVO G570-20079
INTEL CORE i3-2310M/4GB ram DDR3-1066MHz/HDD Toshiba 640GB MK6465GSX/VGA AMD Mobile Radeon HD 6370M/Atheros Wireless 9285/Atheros Ethernet Controller 8152/

Hello Oust_alex,
First the simple procedure to bring the system to factory setting by using the recovery disc if you have created before altering the partitions.
If the recovery disc is not created then you must restore the partitions as previous and then check.
Last option is to purchase the recovery disc from the service center.
Best Regards,
Tanuj
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G570 Can't download One Key Recovery to Windows 7 64 bit

My system is Windows 7
The one-key recovery option was accidentally removed from my 64 Bit Lenovo G570.
Since then I have tried to download a recovery driver from the Lenovo support page.
Two options are available: one for a 32 Bit sytem and one for a 64 Bit system.
I have made absolutely sure that I have chosen the 64Bit version.
The programme downloads but half way through the installation process the green progress line stops and the message flashes up: "You must install this programme on a 32 bit version of Windows".
This happens time after time and the situation is really quite bizarre. There is no doubt that my system is 64 Bit and there is no doubt I am choosing the 64 Bit option.
Can anyone help?
Thank you in advance,
Bill

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So cant download 10.5.

Flex 14 Ideapad Windows 8.1 not able to start or recover using One Key Recovery

I have a Flex 14 Ideapad with Windows 8.1. This was bought in Dec-2013. In the last 6 / 7 months I have has Windows crashing many times. The crashes used to end with a message boot media not found. Each time I used the One Key Recovery to restore the machine to factory setting.
Recently, I faced an issue around user id files not being able to be loaded at the initial startup. This time also I used the One Key Recovery to restore the system. After this I have has another windows crash and now the One Key Recovery also is not working.
What can be done now to make the system work again?

When you start up the system with the NOVO-Button, there should be an option for BIOS.
Do you see the hard drive in the BIOS?
Another option is this:
You can use an USB-Flash Drive to start the system.
For example you can give Ubuntu a try, a good tutorial to do that can be found here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows
If this system start up without any problems, we can use it to test your system.

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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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
1 1000 MB WINRE_DRV NTFS
2 260 MB SYSTEM_DRV FAT32 (EFI)
3 1000 MB LRS_ESP FAT32
4 128 MB NO_NAME Other
5 ? GB C:\Windows8 NTFS
6 ? GB D:\Data NTFS
7 14135 MB PBR_DRV NTFS Recovery
8 327 kB NO_NAME Unallocated
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

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