How can I restore my laptop, if something is wrong?

I just got a new ThinkPad X 230, but I do not buy himself, my sister has for me. Now what's disturbing to me is that she gave me something other than the charger and the laptop itself. And my sister lives in the United States (she got the laptop computer of U.S. only).

I intend double Windows 8 start with ubuntu 12.04, just in case something goes wrong and I mess up the whole system, by removing / corruption of Windows 8, what should I do then? Can I take the laptop to the Lenovo service center and retrieve the Windows 8? Or, is there an option to induce the copy of the drivers and Windows 8 directly from their service center?

Hello and welcome,

You can make your own recovery media - in the case of Windows 8, it's a USB flash drive - or you can order a support medium.

Make your own: methodology to create a recovery media and recharge a system with Microsoft Windows 8 Lenovo preloads

It is also possible to do full backups to a USB HDD, using the tools of "File Windows 7 recovery" strangely named.

Z.

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