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Find best value and selection for your Lenovo T430 T530 W530 X230 Windows 8 Recovery Disks search on eBay. World's leading marketplace. Comments Off on Restoring Windows on a Lenovo X230. A 13.67GB “Lenovo_Recovery. And apparently there’s two very similar ways to restore recovery disk.

I recently purchased a thinkpad x230 with windows 8 pro installed (fyi i haven't even received the laptop yet). I also ordered a crucial 256 ssd to install, but I did not order the physical recovery disk. I'm wondering what my options are for doing a clean install of windows 8 pro on the ssd?

I currently only have window 8 pro upgrade disk, does anyone know if I could use this with the key from the lenovo laptop? Would I have to get an oem disk? Is there anyway I can use the recovery option that comes on the installed hdd?

Thanks in advance. I recently purchased a thinkpad x230 with windows 8 pro installed (fyi i haven't even received the laptop yet). I also ordered a crucial 256 ssd to install, but I did not order the physical recovery disk. I'm wondering what my options are for doing a clean install of windows 8 pro on the ssd? I currently only have window 8 pro upgrade disk, does anyone know if I could use this with the key from the lenovo laptop? Would I have to get an oem disk?

Is there anyway I can use the recovery option that comes on the installed hdd? Thanks in advance. Yes the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade disc seems to not care if you don't have a Windows 7 install already on the system, so you should be able to treat it as a normal install disc.

Least this is my own personal experience on a totally clean install which was done on a new VM to test this very question. Even if it gives you some activation issue on first boot you can try fix it fairly quickly like this: Activate Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Windows 8 users who noticed that the operating system can’t be activated after the installation may want to try the following workaround that worked to activate when installing Windows 8 using an upgrade on a clean PC. Open regedit by pressing Windows-q, entering regedit and selecting the result from the list of hits. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ Change MediaBootInstall from 1 to 0 Go back to the start screen and enter cmd there. Right-click Command Prompt and select to run it as administrator. Type slmgr /rearm on the command line and hit enter. Reboot Windows now.

Run the activation utility afterwards, enter your product key to activate Windows. - Optional to running the activation utility after doing the /rearm is entering your key via cli by: then install your key slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX slmgr -ato. Click to expand.Could you elaborate on this? What exactly would I test? Manual Portugues Senao 8310. I'm not sure what the built in backup recovery is? Does it restore to factory settings from a partition on the hdd?

Would I be losing any functionality by not having any of the lenovo tools stored on the extra partitions? Also, I will try with the upgrade disk and the lenovo key from the laptop, I guess worst case scenario is it just won't accept the key. I was just wondering if anyone had experience with this scenario so I can try to get whatever disk I might need (windows 8 pro oem). Also, is it worth getting the official restore / recovery disks from lenovo? Is there anything on the disks that I wouldn't be able to just download from their website such as drivers etc.? Could you elaborate on this? What exactly would I test?

I'm not sure what the built in backup recovery is? Does it restore to factory settings from a partition on the hdd? Proshow Gold 2.6 Serial Key more. Would I be losing any functionality by not having any of the lenovo tools stored on the extra partitions? Also, I will try with the upgrade disk and the lenovo key from the laptop, I guess worst case scenario is it just won't accept the key.

I was just wondering if anyone had experience with this scenario so I can try to get whatever disk I might need (windows 8 pro oem). Also, is it worth getting the official restore / recovery disks from lenovo? Is there anything on the disks that I wouldn't be able to just download from their website such as drivers etc.? Click to expand.Sure, let me clarify. Cursed Treasure 2 Full Game. Backup the drive that shipped with the machine using Lenovo's documented backup process.

Remove that drive. Install the new drive and restore to it, thus not destroying the original drive. If that works, you know you have a good backup and restore of the factory image. Regarding getting the restore/recovery disks from Lenovo, that really depends on the price and whether the backup/restore you just did worked. Lenovo generally puts everything on the support.lenovo.com download area. The sole exception is usually royalty bearing products like DVD playback applications. Those are usually under the SWTOOLS area on the original hard drive.