THinkpad W530 - Windows7: How to reenable the F11 to be able to Restore to Factory settings
Hi there,
To restore to factory state I used the F11 function at boot time and was able to acces the menu shown in the picture here below. My problem started when an electricity bump caused the machine to restart, the recovery wasnt complete and now I have no OS to boot and the F11 function is not avaiable anymore. My Lenovo_Recovery partition is still there intact by the way but unfortunatelly I never created a recovery CD.
So how can I start the recovery process again from my recovery partition?
I read one option is to buy a Product Recovery DVD from Lenovo but I am looking to solve this using my recovery partition since I am currently in Bolivia where there is no Lenovo service office and an overseas delivery may take weeks.
PS: I have found answers to this questions for other Lenovo products but no for the Thinkpad W series, for example:
for the H420, G550 solution involves installing Lenovo OneKey Recovery
for the A22, T22, T23, X2* solution involves creating a Service Partition repair diskette or bootable CD
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Moderator note; picture(s) converted to link(s) About Posting Pictures In The Forums
Try using a bootable Windows disk, going into repair, and invoking Startup Repair. It should scan for valid entries, one of which should be the recovery environment, and add them to the boot list.
This is assuming BOOTMGR was successfully re-imaged or still working from before.
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