It does show only one partition tagged with "EE" type, therefore I cannot unhide and edit the recovery partition.
I can use recovery menu only in one way: to recover previously stored backup file (by using OKR 8 software in windows).ĭoes anyone know if there is a possibility to convert such ""regular backup" to "initial backup" and put it to hidden recovery partition?īy the way, I have problem with using PTEdit32.
OKR 8 bootable software is not able to do an initial backup of my system and I do not have it -for obvious reasons. After a clean OS installation I ended up with working recovery button and installed OS. I installed OKR 8 once again (according to the manual) and viola - OKR set all partitions correctly. Then, I used Gparted to remove all partitions ending with only one "partition" - unallocated disk space. I ended up with the same result - recovery menu does not show up, furthermore - I damaged my windows installation (as I expected).
After that I used OKR 8 bootable pendrive to install OKR and get Recovery button running.
First of all, I had removed all partitions and then did a clean Windows installation. I bought it with no OS pre-installed, however I have my own Win8 OEM installation disk. I had a very similar problem with my Lenovo Y510P. Before that.Is the system booting to Lenovo OKR 8 Boot environment when you press NOVO button and choose Recovery option? Have you performed backup of important data, included windows 8 initial image? Or did you buy laptop without preinstalled Windows and install yourself later? I am thinking under another question. Windows 8 must be installed from installation media, or restore from initial image from factory (install.wim) in Lenovo OKR 8 boot environment (where you are not able to boot from NOVO button). This install ONLY OKR 8 system, NOT Windows 8 as you can read in provided tutorial.
So check USB drive with OKR 8 installation whether all files from ISO was copied, change Boot mode from UEFI to Legacy Support (or create UEFI boot USB drive with OKR 8 installation), boot from OKR 8 USB drive, check checkbox in Lenovo Smart OKR for Windows 8 tool and the click on enabled button, then you could see All done message-box (note 6 rows in text-box where 3 row has letter "Q:" and 5 row has letter "R:" at the end and last row is All done!), then set Boot mode to UEFI again (if you don't boot from EFI USB drive). PBR_DRV partition (last partition) is missing and LRS_ESP partition is not hidden (in Windows should be hidden). Regarding your current disk structure based on screenshot from disk manager, it seems that something has gone wrong.
What option you can see when you press NOVO button and then choose Boot menu? Is there just 2 options as you can see in Boot section under EFI in BIOS settings or another ones? For test, I would try to load default settings in BIOS settings (maybe EFI variables will be overwritten to default state when NOVO button was working). But I don't see another option, I suppose that you can change order of these EFI boot option, don't you? It seems that your BIOS/InsydeH20 has blocked a some sections or it is emulated. There are EFI boot options under EFI label in Boot section.