Did you format your Lenovo hard drive and one key recovery is no more working?
One key Recovery is stored in a hidden partition on your main hard disk which is rendered useless should you format the entire disk or even restructure the hard disk original partitions or even re-size it by a megabyte. If you still have the hidden partition but did some resizing to your drive then u can try resizing it to the exact sizes they used to be.......but i really don't think it will work. The only solution to this problem, i.e getting your OEM back, is the One Key Recovery Disc.....if not the only good solution i will recommend for those who can is to send it back to Lenovo for a hard disk reset.
.....for One Key Recovery Disc owners
is your one key recovery disc not recognizing your drive partitions because your re-sized or formatted your entire hard disk including the OKR partition? if yes there is a way you can get your OEM back using your recovery disc. The way out of this mess is to have a blank drive. Yes a blank hard disk. there shouldn't be any partition on your hard disk. to achieve this you can use any hard disk partition like gparted but i used a windows 7 installation disc. a pirated one though.
GPARTED
-Select and delete all partitions in the hard disk till all the program displays is Unallocated space and exit making sure changes were saved.
WINDOWS
-Boot from installation disc and get to the part where you are expected to select a partiton to install the windows.-Select and delete all partitions till all that is displayed is Unallocated Disc.
-Exit the installer
Now after formatting the entire drive, boot into the recovery disc and you should find One Key detecting your hard disk.
-Select and restore your windows.
Now your OEM should be restored.
Just to say here, thank you for sharing this tips or ideas. Data Recovery Software AB
ReplyDeleteyou are welcome. i hope it helped someone
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