[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
Moderator comment: New thread created. Subject edited for clarity. Was: Re: One key recovery not working!

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

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    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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