Re-Install G710 with Win 8

I Purchased a new G710 and found that Disk partitions is not like I want. Most of Disk is C and rest is D. I want to Make D larger (Document partition). I know that in this way Recovery Key will not function (I prefer not using it in a case C is Doc disk because Recovery Key will delete all Data). I know that I can Shrink C and enlarge D (by Partition Magic for ex), but I prefer to make clean installation of Win8. My problem is to achieve Install Disk of Win8. Does Recovery Disks of Lenovo contain Win8? or, where to obtain it as a customer that own Win8 License?
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Hi Zamir,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to inform you that the license will not get backed up if recovery media is created, to make Windows 8 the key is pre-injected in to Motherboard, I suggest you to create “USB Recovery Drive” and perform clean installation
NOTE: Please backup the data in the computer before performing clean install, as the data will be completely erased, below is the link for steps to create “USB Recovery Drive”
Create a USB Recovery Drive
Do post us back if the issue persists
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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