T410 upgraded to 8, can't recover to 7
Hi
I have a T410 bought new in 2011, preloaded with Win7 Pro. Used it for about 2 years with no problems. I then upgraded to Windows 8 and after that, 8.1. Because of a number of problems and glitches, I want to go back to the preinstalled 7. I created recovery disks last week - the utility in the Q drive created one CD and 2 DVD's.
It appears, when I try to recover, that the recovery CD is now for Windows 8 even though I believe the 2 DVD's contain Win7 images, so the recovery cannot continue. When I boot with the recovery CD, it loads Win 8 and from there it gives me optons to recover, but all of them are for 8, and it tells me the DVDs do not contain valid images, probably because it's trying to recover 8 from Win 7 DVD's.
Is there a way I can create a recovery bootable CD that attempts to recover Win 7? Please help!
Note factory recovery preparation for Lenovo preloaded win7 and win8 images differs so the tool like "Factory Recovery Disks" from win7 is absent within Lenovo preloaded win8. So I can't understand how you've mixed different recovery medias.
OK, that doesn't matter.
What I'd have done:
- we need bootable media, to be clear - bootloader on that one. It could be on win7 installation disk, or m$ tool for official .iso makes that or 3rd party tool.
- I suggest to make an image copy of your bootable cd to the cd-rw and delete everything on that new disk
- open sdrivebackup.wim image (7-zip) and copy BOOT folder with its content, as well bootmgr to the cd-rw root folder, winre.wim from the \recovery folder to the cd-rw root folder. You should get Lenovo win7 recovery boot media.
Note you could work with usb stick. Everything you'll need is to prepare primary partition on that stick.
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