Recovery Media for Thinkpad Twist s230u

Hey guys,
So I was trying to install windows 8 and managed to delete the recovery media, AND windows 8 that was originally on my laptop from Lenovo and was wondering if there was any way to recover it/ download it to reinstall that state.
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Hello,
You can obtain recovery media by contacting Lenovo support via telephone.
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Reasons am asking this questions:
Sometime you test your computer doing a lot of things learning new technologies etc and suddenly you decide ok I want to take it back to factory state. Until now, most Thinkpad laptop does not come with recovery media. So how can I assure that my Recovery Media includes everything I used to have when I first receive unit.
I want to learn how to do that by myself by learning from the experts.
Until now what I know as follow:
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I tried recovery media 3 DVD only with original hard drive works. I did not try Flash and not sure there is option yet.
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ThinkPad Twist s230u:
I tried Flash and followed procedure on link in previous post. I took me less than 15 min to recovery whole. The question is does this process recover all the parts that is included when I receive unit.
I was unable to do recovery since I am not sure when in the Flash and during process showed to choose operating system was only Window 8 option not Window 8 Pro which came with unit.
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Thinkpad Twist S230u: Install clean Windows 8

Hello Together,
I got a new Lenovo Thinkpad Twist S230u and want to install windows 8 without all preinstalled Software.
But i cannot find any Recovery Disc/Partition and there is no Registration Key for Windwos 8 in the Package....
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Hi bigwig,
I'm not quite sure what you want to do, but if you are looking to do a clean install without the Lenovo pre-installed software, you are headed down the wrong path.
Here's how you make a copy of the recovery image to USB flash drive. That can be used to restore your Twist to factory state. Factory state includes the pre-installed software too. There isn't a "naked" Win 8 image anywhere on the machine, as far as I know. Only the full Wind 8 + Lenovo recovery image.
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ThinkPad Twist s230u cursor flashing

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i. 2nd attempt. The 1st didn't show.
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I'll take another shot, Monir (with the same proviso that I'm probably not the best one here to reply).
d. Does it mean the unit comes with the 2 versions of Windows 7 (the 32 and the 64 bit) pre-installed ??
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Fix for slow-as-hell refurb ThinkPad Twist S230u

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I just wanted to share here since I spent a ridiculous amount of time winding my way through the labyrinthine Lenovo website, when all I had to do was go to Start and type "update." So if, like me, you're pissed off that your brand-new-to-you machine is faulty, do yourself a favor and try that first and see where it gets you.
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Default Partitions for lenovo Twist s230u

Hello,
I have a Lenovo Twist (s230u) and need to do a system recovery. Unfortunately, neither the F11 option is working nor recovering from win 8 itself. I do not have a win8 disk (wasn't supply with the computer) !
The only option I guess is to get a win8 drive and do a clean install. Before I do this and reformat the drive, can someone tell me what to do with the different partition on the HDD and the SDD ? I see the disk is divided into multiple partitions... Even if I do a clean win 8 installation, what should I do about the 260 Mb, 1000Mb and 7 Gb partitions (EFI, recovery and recovery respectively) Are they necessary ?
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Hello and welcome,
Easiest - if your drive stays alive long enough - is to make a recovery flash drive and use that to restore to a new drive.
Methodology to create Recovery Media and reload a Lenovo system with Microsoft Windows 8 preload
If you have a MS Win 8 install DVD of the matching version you can just copy the contents to a FAT32-formatted flash drive and use that for a clean install. The license is in BIOS and shoud be picked up. (CAVEAT: I've done installs from flash, but not verified that the license is picked up.)
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Worst case: use a USB DVD drive. Worst, worst case: purchase recovery DVDs from Lenovo support _and_ use an external drive.
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Your post was very helpful. It did the trick. The photos of the screens and etc. helped.
I am using a Toshiba laptop that came with Winddows 8.1 (64bit), which allegedly supports UEFI boot.
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