Windows 8.1 Pro doesn't Booting

Dear Lenovo Service Team,
I have a new ThinkPad T440 laptop with preinstalled OEM Windows 8.1Pro ( 16GB SSD+500GB HDD ).
I made a recovery media in Flash Disk including the recovery partition which was saved in the SSD space by default from Lenovo, and the recovery space in Flash Disk took 9.7GB and that was done successfully.
After that, i tried to use that recovery to make resetting laptop to its factory settings. That process was done without any problem. But after restarting laptop, the windows can't booting and the laptop just try to look for the OS in SSD or HDD but doesn't find.
Also I tried to use the recovery which I made in Flash Disk to reinstall everything in default like new, but the recovery mode is asking for DVD media and nothing is usefull to use in Flash Disk. Note that I don't have the DVD's.
All the partitions which made from Lenovo by default still the same with their data and not delete, but I don't know why the OS is not booting and login on it.
Could you please help me to solve this issue ?
Best regards,
Mazen Shamsan

Hi Ian,
I would move the question to TechNet Windows 8 General forum for a better support.
Thanks for your understanding.
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With intel Mac they changed to EFI firmware so a lot has changed. From reading this I think if you can get to install disk utilities then why not uncheck +Require password to change Open Firmware settings+ on Firmware Password Utility and that should free up the troubleshooting steps you list above that are blocked. Reinstall of OSX seems logical to attempt. Sadly without further testing could be hardware issue too, need to contact apple authorized service provider in this eventuality. One thing to bear in mind was whether your co-worker altered the firmware in any way, this might invalidate Apple One-Year Limited Warranty, AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement.

MacBook Pro doesn't boot after crash.

I only had it for a few month (Novebmer 2011).
It crashed while playing an online game and wouldn't let me close the game so I forced a restart by pressing the On/Off button. Trying to start back up I get a grey screen with an Apple logo and a ton of command line text with weird looking codes.
I already tried:
Disconnecting all USB devices.
Botting in Safe Mode (by holing down shift):
Works. Repaired permissons and tried to repair disk. Both tell me it's fine now but I still can't boot normally.
I also turned off Bluetooth just in case my Apple keyboard or touchpad are interfering.
Resetting RAM (by holding down command-option-P-R):No change.
Booting from the repair partiton (by holding down command-R):
Doesn't give me and options but also a grey screen just without the error messages I get when booting normally.
(I don't have a start-up disk to use as the new MacBook Pros don't ship with one.)
Selecting the repair partition after setting up internet in the bottom part.Also just agrey screen with error text.
The MacBook was bought from a Premium Reseller and they changed the RAM for me. I have the original lieing next to me but don't quite dare to change anything myself as I'm afraid I might break something and just make it worse. Given it's from a Premium Reseller I assume it should be apple approved or whatever though.
My second problem is that I'm in France and don't speak French so going to the Apple store is kind of a last resort. (And probably not a good experience.)
I'd be more than grateful for any tips on what else I could try.

What I think has happened is in the process of doing a Force Shut Down you have totally corrupted the hard drive.
Destroying even the Recovery partition.
Now this could be because of a hardware failure, like for some reason the hard drive just crapped out (it can happen at any time).
You can try to boot the computer from the internet, Apples web server. You do that by holding down the Command+R key combo as soon as you hit the power button.
If that does not take you to the internet boot system then you will more then likely have to wait for your Bar appointment.
Good luck.

Windows 8.1 Pro will not boot after clean install!

Hello all recently went from a Win7pro to Win8.1pro I did a clean install and formatted my HDD just last night. Woke up this morning my machine was turned off I had let it stay on this night as I was installing updates for it. So i turned on the computer
and got nothing let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing and but nothing im talking just a blank screen. I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)" When I tried to turn it back on again this time
i got the ASUS Sabertooth X58 splash screen to enter bios or load boot devices so was kinda excited. However if i try to enter this BIOS it sits on another screen (American Megatrends) just saying entering setup... Same goes for the Boot Devices page. So let
me back up for just a sec, After I did the clean install it worked fine for about a couple hours I had time to install AVG and Spybot Search and Destroy and then went to bed and let it do updates. I run Win8.1Pro at school and work and have never had
this problem any suggestions?

let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing
I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)"
That may not have been long enough. But a "hard shutdown" would definitely have been construed as a problem due to the update.
Asus apparently is a known problem case...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/10/19/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-the-superspeed-ports-of-my-asus-system-don-t-work.aspx
Link courtesy Darrell Gorter [MSFT] found here
"Windows 8 Keyboard and mouse not working"
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/06e9b341-0619-4085-acbf-e2f0133ca428?outputAs=rss
(RSS given to avoid overhead of opening long thread for IE users)
Note that there may be useful tips for you in both of those threads' comments.
Robert Aldwinckle

Late 2008 Macbook Pro doesn't boot after installing Mavericks

I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, dual core 2.53 GHZ, 4 GB Ram (2x2).
I've been tearing my hair out trying to get this computer to boot up. Many things have been tried here. So here's the history.
Before starting this, I was running 10.6.8 on this computer.
First time I tried to install Mavericks, the installation failed, and when the computer went to restart, it just went in a loop, never really booting up, just getting the to gray screen with the apple symbol, spinning the wheel, and then going black again, restarting, and repeat. So, I took it into the Apple Genius Bar, and they diagnosed a bad battery. I replaced the battery, and had them do a clean restore back to 10.6.8.
I got it home, and tried to do an install again. This time, I downloaded the installer, and put in on an external firewire drive, and attempted to do a clean install of Mavericks. I ended up with the same boot failure problem.
I went back to the apple genius bar, and even though the diagnotics said my harddrive was fine, they said in the troubleshooting list, that the harddrive with the first thing they suspected. So, I replaced the harddrive. I did the Mavericks install again from an external HD, and for a moment, everything was great. It booted up into Mavericks. But, after my first restart, the problem was boot failure was back.
After reading a few articles, I tried booting in Safe mode. That worked. I also ran disk repair on the HD and it looked great. Still, it won't boot up out of Safe mode.
After being very frustrated, I tried just installing snow leopard from the dvd, but the install keeps failing.
Not sure what to do next.

Micajah10,
rather than a hard drive problem, you might have a faulty internal SATA cable. Do you have an external disk enclosure, or a SATA-to-USB or SATA-to-FireWire adapter? If you can boot from your hard drive without problems when it’s external, but it remains problematic internally, then that could point to the internal SATA cable as the culprit.

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