Thursday, May 3, 2012

One Key Recovery not recognising Hard Disk

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.

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