Recovering from a hard drive that was crushed

Hello

I just inadvertently replaced my hard drive using a piece of third-party software. I was trying to fix an SD card (which seemed to have a virus on it and don't allow me to reformat). I downloaded this software that cost could reformat the drive, but it did not work. Then, I read on a forum suggesting accidental (using the same program). However, being a little overzealous in getting this card so I can use my camera once more running, I touched instead of bad drive (c :) of the (f) and he replaced the drive.) What is a piece of very basic software seems not have any message of what I was about to do. I forgot the name of this program, but this seems inconsequential at this point.  The computer does not start now, the hard drive is basically unformated. It happened in a Flash, in a few seconds, the screen went black, which makes me think of data is still on the disk, then perhaps he is not now covered in '1' or something. I just can't get anything operational. It is a Lenovo laptop, which came with no recovery or disks of windows disks. I'm not really tied to any data on the computer (it is all backed up). I have just no way to lift Windows and run again. The one key recovery program does not either. Suggestions for this frustrating situation would be useful.

Thank you.

Hi David

I recommend that you contact the Lenovo Support. They should be able to provide a recovery disc for Windows installed again.

Lenovo Support Home:

http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/

Community Support of Lenovo forums:

http://forums.Lenovo.com/

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