My lenovo thinkcentre desktop computer never shows "press any key" while I try to format. Unable format my C drive and recently 500 GB HDD was installed in my computer. pl.advise how to format it.Despite pressing key F1.F2,del,esc,ctrl+atl+esc but no use.there is no booting.pl advise.

format the hard drive any way as it has to be in a particular format for the system

Here you go..

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/

do you have a 3rd-party Alarm Clock program or theme installed ?

Check the link below, this should apply to your computer as well.

Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p quick review and System Restore

An ISO image needs to be burned to disk; you cannot boot from the image itself. A free program that can burn the image to a working file is called CDBurnerXP. It will burn CDs and DVDs.

if your HDD is a refurbished drive then it may still have faulty sectors. try a new hard drive and if still doesn't work try changing the ram you are using it may still appear as if its working but is causing processes to hang

need to replace the bios or get another computer

Try it with another PC if available.
or, Install Linux (Ubuntu etc.) and see if it works.

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Hi All,

I am new to to the community. I recently bought a lenovo G series machine( G550 model #298595Q preloaded with Windows vista and 320 GB HDD) . surprisingly The C: drive contained 254 GB of the total available 284 GB and D: drive had the remaining space. I wanted to inistall linux, I had to partition the C:drive and no where in the lenovo mannual it is warned against the resizing C:)

I used a partition software called "paragon" to resize my C: drive. My system hanged while running the process and after a long wait I had to shutdown my system and after that my OS was not loading.So I decided to recover my vista using one key recovery. I tried the back up I stored in D: drive and in DVD and it is giving an error message that "not enough space in the system" and in the one key recovery menu the target location of the one key recovery is showing to D: drive but my preloaded vista was installed in C: drive and also it is showing the total free space as 298 GB)

Could any one help me to get my vista back.( why the target location of one key recovery is showing to D:)
or is there any way to increase the D: partition from boot setup). Please help me.

and also my warranty is valid , since I touched my C: drive( no where it is warned against that)?