Twist S230U, should I do Win 8.1 upgrade

I read in these forums of all the problems people are having after doing the 8.1 upgrade. Does every one who upgrades end with problems or are most upgrades successful? To upgrade or not to upgrade.

I would do a clean install rather than a upgrade. My friend has done a upgrade on the Twist, and there were quite lot of issues that had to be resolved.
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Jin Li
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My camera in twist s230U after upgrade to win 8.1 show a diagonal cross line

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I also had this problem and could not find the detailed solution but this thread did help me get the camera going. I tried uninstalling the camera device, downloading the latest driver and re-installing, rebooting and no change.
What did work immediately for me was to go to the "Lock Screen" settings then “Swipe down on the lock screen to use the camera” setting, turn it off, then back on, (it was already on) and the camera was back to normal once again.
My suggestion is to do this first, before anything else, and see if it works for 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 ?
What about the SSD ? Technically I guess since it is separated, it shouldn't affected.
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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.)
Note that the copy-to-flash install works for MS media but not for Lenovo recovery DVDs.
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Disappointed by Twist S230u display touch did not work

I bought new Lenovo twist s230u from ANTOnline.com on 10th Jun and received it on 15th Jun same day I have identified its touch screen not working reported back to ANTOnline and then suggested to contact Lenovo thinkpad support so i did initially they suggested to refresh and reload OS but that did not workand finally I had to send the laptop to Lenovo service center, now Lenovo took 2 weeks to repair buggi laptop screen and mother board as laptop screen was coming from china so i received back laptop with list of five component they have change and also a paper saying quality and functional testing pass well as soon as I started laptop touch screen started working but it took me 10 mins to figure out that laptop is not functioning properly as screen rotation button was not fitted propely so screen was not rotating and it was getting stuck, lower volumn button was not fitted properly so it was always on mute and I could not increase the volumn and third defect and best is now touch pad stoped working so I callled Lenovo thinkpad service again and sent laptop back to them again now its been two weeks more and laptop is still with them and support notes shows that they have changes few more parts in that laptop
I feel like lenovo dont have any quality in their products its been more than months I bought it and i am still not able to use it infact it is not with me I feel like I m fooled by ANTOnline and Lenovo both as I feel like i bought refurbished than new as it has so many issues. How long will i be sending laptop to Lenovo service i bought new to use not to repair untill it is in warrenty I am not even aware where should i put the complaint about it..

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Win 8.1 Upgrade Disabled Twist Touch Screen Fixed

After a Win 8.1 Upgrade, I had no touch screen function. Calls to Lenovo led nowhere Same with searching Microsoft boards. I fixed the issue on Sunday 6/1- No help from Lenovo or Microsoft.
For me it was finding two "Unknown Devices" in the HID section of Device Manager which did not have drivers installed. After researching and determining that Win 8.1 will not allow unsigned device drivers, and also seeing the "Update Driver" option failing because the drivers on the laptop that fit the problem were getting an 'INF unsigned driver error', I went through the steps to allow unsigned drivers... Charm Bar>Settings>Change PC Settings>Update and Recovery>Recovery>Advanced Startup>-Restart> Troubleshoot>Advanced Options>Startup Settings> Restart and then Chose #7>Allow Unsigned Device Drivers and Restart again... then Updating the two Unknown Devices with the drivers already on the Twist.... and voila- the errors disappeared and the touchscreen returned to full function.
I don't know if this happened to many people, but Lenovo had no idea what to do. They wanted me to ship them the laptop and allow them to roll it back to Windows 8. Posting here to distribute it to a larger audience. Maybe someone at Microsoft should call Lenovo too or Lenovo should call Microsoft. The Twist is a great laptop with Win 8.1 when everything works the way it should.
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Hi Cvj17,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per your query we understood that you are looking driver for Unknown device. In some system after installing all the drivers also the unknown device will show in Lenovo Solution Center, hence confirm it once in device manage is there any Unknown adapter is showing in that.
Please install Lenovo System Update application and run it to verify the driver automatically.
Unknown Device issue.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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ThinkPad Twist s230u and ThinkPad x201 Tablet Creating Recovery Media

Hi Lenovo Customer Support,
ThinkPad s230u( model number: 3347CTO) - Window 8 Pro.
Before I start using my Laptop, I want to create a Recovery Media as is shown when installed with all partitions. Meaning if I format all contents of Laptop I want a recovery Media brings back computer as I go it in the first place include all partitions. By default there are five hidden partition and one ntfs.
What is the procedure how to Create a Recovery Media? I heard only Flash Recovery exist for Window 8.
Also I have Window 8 Pro but when I tried this link procedure http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/Create-Win-8-recovery-media-in-ThinkPad-Thi... I saw only Window 8 option and even then it reboot and did not work.
Also I did Flash Recovery and Took Faster with USB 3.0 Flash around 10 min around 16GB Space
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Can you do Flash Recovery Media and CD Recovery Media under Window 7 Pro Enviro.
If you upgrade Hard drive to 1T and RAM to 16 G RAM , Can you Still do the Recovery Media?
What is the Procedure to successfully create Recovery Media.
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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:
ThinkPad x201:
I tried recovery media 3 DVD only with original hard drive works. I did not try Flash and not sure there is option yet.
If I upgrade unit with 1T hard drive and 16G Ram, How can I do Recovery Media?
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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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: Clean Install - Windows 8 on Custom Partition

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Can someone please help tell me how do I install Windows 8 doing my own custom partition (C, D) where Win 8 is installed onto my choice of C and D is left for my data. Why does it keep saying, "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one"? Is it a settings in BIOS that I need to change to enable me to use my own partition? If so, what setting? I have never had these issues installing Win 8 using the C & D partition config on 3 other computers (not Lenovo S230u Twist).
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Hello LightspeedX!
I glad you wrote this issue cause i still having the same problem (and questions).
I decided to put everithing down on my s230u because it is quietly irritant see a last generation porcessor like the I7 on a top plataform ultrabook running so slowly like our thinkpad do.
Since the embed software and the poor resource planning is the resposable for that issue, i really cant imagine why Lenovo decide to bring all this things up together at this device. I realize that any cheap I3 china device is more confortable and "quickly" to run any software than this machine in his original state (factory defaults), so i decid to try a brand new and clean installation of windows 8 or (perhaps) a dual boot configuration using a linux frindly distro like ubuntu.
At my own risc, like the cusummer service like to say, i will erase all HD and start this "saga" (making a full hard copy first, of course and will soon bring any results i found here.
Some interesting urls:
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http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_12.10_on_Thinkpad_Twist
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/make/Lenovo/
http://it.nmu.edu/news-article/lenovo-twist-s230u-screen-orientation-issues
http://nerdanswer.com/answer.php?q=50276
Untill i got there, i wish you lucky because i doubt you can found any anwers from the "big fans" of Lenovo or there oficial costumer services!!!!
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Nilson

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Dear Redv
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All what you need to Disable the auto Rotate Screen is to press on the highlighted button as shows below :-
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Hi, bobzig
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