Partitioning Thinkpad 530

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• My Lenovo ThinkPad 530 will ACCEPT

  I have the 4400 Intel graphics card

  i7 processor.

  This will allow installation and usage?

  Yes, as long as it meets all the requirements: System requirements | Dreamweaver

• Partition recovery X 230 - N ° of ThinkPad, lost System_DRV and no media recovery

  
  

  I still write some useful links that I tried before call lenovo customer service. If it works for you, then great. But please use it with care at your own risk.

  They have also a lot of information that will be useful for those looking for answers.

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/X-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/making-a-USB-stick-with-the-Lenovo-recovery-PA...

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/X-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/X100e-make-bootable-USB-stick-of-recovery-CD/t...

  http://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/ThinkVantage-Technologies/need-help-with-recovery-partition-create-RECOV...

  http://www.kensfi.com/cannot-create-another-factory-recovery-disk-for-Lenovo/

• ThinkPad E530: Need help using the Windows 7 recovery partition

  
  

  Nice day.

  Everything I've read, so far, is that it is not possible to do something with the remnants of the recovery partition now that Windows 10 'touched' the system.

  A way to return to your original OEM image would be to contact the applicant recovery DVD and Support (info below). There may be a cost of handling.

  Kind regards.

• Win 8 does not work after the new partition, Lenovo Thinkpad W530... Can anyone help?

  Hello I am new to this community

  Have you thought about set SYSTEM_DRV as bootable?

• ThinkPad Edge 530 C13 / 3120M

  I have the laptop above:

  Serial number: *

  I want to add more memory and the detailed specifications for this model (E530) indicates that the maximum memory is 8GB

  I looked and talked to two reliable suppliers of memory who indicate on their Web sites and confirmed by telephone that the maximum is 16 GB (2 x 8 GB).

  Can someone please advise me which is correct. If 16 GB is possible are there risks or any other change involved?

  Moderator Note: serial number removed for the protection of the Member.

  Hello yorkie9, welcome to the forums.

  I don't know if, in the meantime, you have found your answer elsewhere, but the answer is Yes. 16GB is possible in your E530 and other sites have been correct; the Lenovo site States what was right at the point where there is no module of RAM 8 GB in-process.

  I hope this helps you, or at least someone else.

• Need help with the recovery partition/create recovery media

  HI - first thing I did when I got my thinkpad is a clean install of w7, but then I thought about it and restored the recovery partition, conviniently located at the end of the training, in order to create a backup dvd factory. Thing is, when I click the autorun (lenovoqdrive.exe) and select 'create recovery media', I get an error stating that "program files (x 86) \lenovo\factory recovery\recovburncd.exe" is missing... obviously since the operating system partition was crushed.

  I tried RnR and looked on the software + drivers page and nothing happens as "... \lenovo\factory recovery\" when it is installed. So, where can I download the program that creates the recovery discs?

  (I know possible to restore the operating system of the *.wim file but I want to leave that as a last resort).

  Okay here's what I did to who mightve had the same question: as mentioned earlier, I have restored the partition Q with (your favorite free partition recovery tool), then booted from a usb winpe (with imagex) generated from victory aik (free).

  first I deleted (from winpe boot usb) windoze partition with diskpart and recreated the 2 partitions S & C (and Q is on the left) by hand according to 'recovery.ini' found on q. then I restored S and C 'sdrivebackup.wim' and 'cdrivebackup.wim', respectively, using imagex.exe, which is actually two one liners.

  Finally, I tried the bcd to fixation by hand according to "bcdinfo.txt", also found on Q, but that did not really work... so I just jumped into a bootable win7 USB and he rewrote the bcd by itself (I assume). the last step has been fixing the mbr by using /fixmbr and /fixboot bootrec.exe.

  ATM I started just and afaict it behaves exactly like the first start-up of the plant. see you soon

• The HD on Thinkpad T430 upgrade, how can I find a compatible drive? Looking for 1 TB 7200 RPM

  Hi, I recently got a T430 renovated and well, I just love and want to invest in an upgrade to 1 TB hard drive 7200 RPM

  I read the specs here but other than:

  • High, 320 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA 3.0 GB/s 7mm
  • 500 GB, 7200 RPM, 7mm or 9.5 mm high SATA 3.0 GB/s
  • 1 TB, 5400 RPM, 9.5 mm high SATA 3.0 GB/s

  It is really not a lot to spend when buying a new hard drive. (totall rookie at this, so please be nice)

  Are all HDDs OTC market you today my machine? I have read discussions on the Bay in my entirely appropriate machine HDs 7 mm and 9.5 is a stretch and could adversely affect the connection to the motherboard. You can link me to a schematic page? I am looking for part numbers, which would help.

  Here are some HDs I consider, how do I know if they will fit ok? Comments are appreciated. I can watch videos on gootube how swap, this part is easy.

  Currently dual boot win 7 pro and ubuntu 14.04 and I've pretty much mukked to the top of the 320 hd with partitions before I knew any better. Nothing on the drive is special, I might as well do a clean install or restore backups. Which do you recommend?

  I would replace the hd in 9.5 mm slot?

  PS, none of the disks hybrid work in the T430?

  Thank you!

  Good day and welcome to the community.

  For reference, take a look at the FRU T430 parts list: https://download.lenovo.com/parts/ThinkPad/t430_t430i_fru_bom_20140722.pdf

  There is a section for each: 7 mm/2.5 "" SSD and 7 & 9.5mm/2.5 ' hard drives, which were offered with the machine. "

  Hope this helps your search a little.

  Kind regards.

• 531 E - select partition recovery disks

  Hi, I would like to have two OS on my Thinkpad E531. I have all the recovery discs four (2 App and drivers + 2 OS Recovery). Is it possible to install Windows 8 with selection of partition. Because if I start to recover, it is automatically used all of my hard drive.

  And is it possible to install only the operating system without other programs such as the Antivirus Northon and so on?

  Thank you!

  Good day and welcome to the community.

  From my experience using recovery media factory, process, other than the disks when you are prompted, switch is completely automatic. No picking partitions or installs selective component. The aim of the game is to restore the computer to its out-of-box state.

  Hope this helps to clarify.

  Kind regards.

• ThinkPad T420 recovery problem

  Hi all

  I need your help. I have a problem with ThinkPad T420. When I am pressing ThinkVintage or F11 to get into recovery, it loads and then I get this message below;

  Link to image

  Don't know how to solve this problem, thank you!

  If partitions System_DRV and Lenovo_Recovery (q) has not been resized or corrupt, R & R should work. So, I guess to upgrade/reinstall application Lenovo Rescue & recovery via ThinkVantage System Update because there are a lot of conditions to perform this task manually (eg. There are several options for deployment and language packs).

  If this does not help, it could be better and more quickly to create a Lenovo recovery media, it's almost the same Lenovo recovery environment you try to start using BB or F11:
  -make it from Lenovo R & R application, advanced mode, rescue media
  - or simply deploy a .iso file image:
  C:\Program Files (x 86) \Lenovo\Rescue and Recovery\rrcd

  Note, in any case, it is a good practice to have this rescue media.

  If you want to reset the laptop to the factory scene, do it from recovery media factory Lenovo.

• How to re - install the software OS and Thinkpad after hardware upgrade?

  I'm about to buy a SSD for my X 220.

  My recovery partition is on my current hard drive, so instead of the backup and restore of the entire hard drive, (I make a smaller hard drive) I want to restore the system from the recovery partition (new installation).

  How can I do? It works if I turn the internal hard drive externally using the attachment? But I think that it will not boot from that disk hard if I do that, then I don't know how to recover my OS X 220.

  Thank you.

  1. what, to buy a license? Do you have the ms COA sticker in the battery compartment?

  2. prepare the recovery media factory applet suitable the disk with Lenovo system preloaded. It could be the flash drive, 16 GB in size.

  3. it is possible to deploy two image .wim of partitions, one by one, Lenovo_Recovery on the drive target and its System_DRV and system parttions. But it also will some actions to set the parameters of the partitions.
  In a Word, there are several scenarios. Take a look this post, for example:
  https://forums.Lenovo.com/T5/X-series-ThinkPad-Laptops/restoring-OS-and-drivers-after-x230-HDD-repla...

• Not enough space on Lenovo_Recovery (q) Partition

  Hi all. I had a Thinkpad T410 for about a month now and I'm in love.

  Recently I have been doing a WARNING saying:

  Low disk space
  You run lack of disk space on Lenovo_Recovery {q}.
  Click here to see if you can free up space on this drive.

  So, I click there to try and free space - there is nothing to remove the space.

  If I go to the computer, it tells me that there is 7.37 MB of 9,76 GB free space on the partition {q}. Double click on the partition {q}, only two things exist.

  TAYLOR-THINK (folder)
  MediaID.bin (BIN - size of 1 KB file)

  Fair enough. I open the folder TAYLOR-THINK and see more of two things.

  Backup game-2010-06-21 015705 (folder)
  MediaID.bin (BIN - size of 1 KB file)

  The folder of files from backup set contains 2.25 GB, which includes the backup files in two different days.

  9.76 - 2.25 = 7,51 GB

  Something in the recovery partition {q} use 7,51 GB of space, but I do not know what?

  Help please!

  
  

• Installation, Thinkpad 520, Ubuntu 11.10 tips

  I have a Thinkpad with Intel + NVidia graphics.

  Can anyone offer advice on what to do during the initial installation? Should I disable or activate the NVidea/Intel/Optimus graphics? I believe that there is an option in the BIOS.

  I read on the project of Ironhide (former bourdon). Is it worth a try?

  Unless you want to venture out on the way to Bumblebee, your best bet may be simply set the display on discrete graphics device in BIOS-> Config-> display configuration. Ubuntu 11.10 should install and run reasonably OK using a 32-bit kernel (see a recent thread on the W520 and 64-bit kernels). If you don't mind installing the NVIDIA drivers, you can try the. You will probably get a little better performance out of them, but you need to address to re - install these drivers, whenever the kernel is updated. This Debian wiki page and some of its links children have a good discussion on this topic would be a good place to read: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers you may encounter this problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/699802 if you have a separate/boot partition, but it should be easily bypassed for now. John

• Need help with reset factory for Thinkpad X 40

  Hello

  I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X 40-2371, I want to get back to its factory settings. It doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I can't use a recovery CD. Operating system is Windows XP Professional. I tried to use the "Access IBM" and buttons "F11" to see if I can find any option of restoration of the factory, but there is none. Advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the forum!

  It seems that the recovery partition is missing or damaged in total. You will need to get an external multimedia drive and install the OS from scratch.

  Good luck.

• Clean install of an installation of Lenovo. DVD: UEFI vs Legacy + installation according to Lenovo Thinkpad user Guide

  Machine: T520 purchased February 2012

  O.S. W ~ 7 Pro 64-bit

  I want to wipe the hard drive, buy a Lenovo W ~ 7 DVD installation of PRO and make a completely clean install.

  The user guide for Lenovo (.pdf), Ch. 8, Adv Config, installation Windows 7, p. 295 (298 212) said:

  Start the installation of Thinkpad, choose UEFI against Legacy, and then insert the installation DVD.

  This of course does not apply when the hard drive has already been erased (required to 100% remove all traces of damage caused by a virus, including the recovery partition (Q-drive).

  When an intallation DVD is purchased from Lenovo, is not the first step to insert the DVD? Then there is probably a resulting install wizard an O.S. restored?

  If this isn't the case, please tell me what are the surprises in store, and where I can find a reliable resource to consult written!

  Thank you.

  Hi, Z

  Sorry, but I'm not all-new advanced in the understanding of the apparent contradictions, or how to proceed.

  It is not the case in this case that the Lenovo User Guide is referring to one of several types of clean install, and that he has no idea the other methods?

  If my first step to reinstall the version of Lenovo's W ~ Pro 7 is to use a 3 rd-party app to remove completely all the files from the hard drive, how do I then perform any action before inserting a facility provided by Lenovo dvd? I know that the BIOS software is separated from Windows, but it's still there? Alternatively, is the User Guide of Lenovo referring to a situation in which a first is not a so-called "hard drive wiping" before to start a clean reinstall? In addition, if a wipe everything first or not, is the guide referring to an installation of Microsoft (generic) dvd and not wearing only not on a Lenovo purchase? I think that an installation DVD purchased from Lenovo back on my computer, exactly what was there before and ask me not to make decisions as the UEFI against Legacy (in fact, the words "UEFI" and "Legacy" are not yet in any computer on my computer profile file.

  On the other hand, if the L ~ the User Guide instructions apply in fact to a hard drive wiped, the Guide says absolutely nothing about what criteria to use to make this 'choice' between UEFI 64-bit and 64-bit legacy.

  (When the Lenovo user guide instructions raise more questions than the original question, then these instructions are worse than no instructions at all!)