Hello there! I have a Lenovo IdeaCentre b305uk (don't know the rest of the serial) I have created a new partition (drive D) and my recovery key F2 is not longer working. LVT- Drivers and aplication... says "Failed to open service partition". Using partition wizzard I can see: *SYSTEM_RESERVED Primary NTFS 100 MB C: NTFS Primary ACTIVE Boot & SYSTEM D: NFTS Logical *LENOVO_PARTITION NTFS Primary (more than 15 GB of data in it). If I set the lenovo partition to ACTIVE boots loading WINDOWS and just a cmd pront with a green walpaper appear? So I had to set the C: back using an external tool. How Can I recover my F2 recovery funtionality? Thanks in advance

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Since you have used the recovery disc to restore the system, it will automatically create partitions on the system, in your case, just one major partition which is Drive C (C:). If you want to add partitions on your system, you can use partition editor software such as Norton Partition Magic 8.0 and Acronis Partition Manager. These software gets a portion of the main Partition (Unused / Free space) and creates a new one. You can create multiple partitions depending on the size of the Hard Drive on the system. These Software are not Free, if you want to use a free software for editing the parition, you can use Gparted (Found in : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ). Though Gparted is free, it is harder to use compared to the first 2 software mentioned. If you want to use a user friendly sofware, I suggest that you use Acronis Partition Manager or Norton Partition Magic 8.0.

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Dear Arnold,

you need to take your laptop to the Lenovo Authorised service center. As you stay in Delhi there are many service centers of Lenovo. They will charge you for fixing the one touch recovey but you will have to format your harddisk completly and tell them how much space you need for c drive and the rest will be occupied by d drive.

note: please take your back up of c as well as d drive. lenovo is not responsible for the backup.

vimal raj

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• Posted on Jul 17, 2009

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Hi..

First you have to download this One Key recovery application from Levono's official site - lenovo.com. Just run the application and the installation process should help you thru..

I hope this helps.. please vote.

Thanks - billa

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There are ways to recover files from formatted hard drives but to recover the entire recovery partition is not likely.

Please contact Lenovo here to order recovery discs

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