Lenovo is pure rubbish

2008-12-17 20:59:20

#1

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

I've had this laptop for a year, and I planned to reformat it. So I opened the booklet, followed the instructions and went to the program (for some strange reason, the idiots don't provide discs). So all went well until I clicked the final "next" button under "Restore Factory Settings". Some box popped up saying something like: "The Restore Function Has Been Removed From This System."

My reaction was:

https://www.latinoreview.com/images/user/picard-facepalm.jpg

What sort of bullshit are they trying to pull? First they make a "hidden partition" stealing around 9 gigabytes of memory from my hard disk, (Surely that can't be all Vista), and then they don't send recovery cds (Ease of use my ass, restoring by shutting the comp down and pressing the blue button again and again without knowing it's working is easy?) and then when I do try to use the thing, it tells me I can't!

Google is your friend. So I find recovery diskette exe files for cases like this. Great. Unfortunately, I need a floppy drive. How many people use floppy drives? The laptop doesn't even have a floppy drive!

/RANT

2008-12-17 21:02:34

#2

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6418|what

Could the hidden partition of 9 gigs been where the restore function was?

Did you delete and try to format that partition?

2008-12-17 21:04:03

#3

GodFather: Blademaster's bottom bitch; +387|6485|Phoenix, AZ

TheAussieReaper wrote:
Could the hidden partition of 9 gigs been where the restore function was?

this

2008-12-17 21:09:54

#4

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

GodFather wrote:
TheAussieReaper wrote:
Could the hidden partition of 9 gigs been where the restore function was?
this

You can't touch the partition. It's not accessible, and in any case, I've never tried getting rid of it.

2008-12-17 21:10:57

#5

S.Lythberg: Mastermind; +429|6712|Chicago, IL

Isn't that 9 GB partition usually the system recovery?

2008-12-17 21:16:33

#6

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

S.Lythberg wrote:
Isn't that 9 GB partition usually the system recovery?

Yes. And hence I'm annoyed it doesn't work.

2008-12-17 21:44:14

#7

cospengle: Member; +140|6752|Armidale, NSW, Australia

Sounds liek my GF's HP Pavillion. I found a CD image in the web which I used to do the recovery. Are you sure there isn't another version that doesn't require a FDD?

EDIT: lol, they won't let you DL it, you have to buy the disc....pure rubbish...

EDIT2: Sorry, that was something else I DLed. We made a recovery disk using some program that comes on the laptop.

Last edited by cospengle (2008-12-18 04:36:58)

2008-12-17 21:47:55

#8

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

What model is it?

2008-12-17 21:51:57

#9

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6704|King Of The Islands

All else fails get someone's OEM Windows disc and throw it in, when it asks for the key ignore, choose your Vista and when it comes time to activate you explain the phone monkey its a Lenovo.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2008-12-17 21:59:38

#10

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
What model is it?

It's a T61

2008-12-17 22:01:51

#11

TimmmmaaaaH: Damn, I... had something for this; +725|6705|Brisbane, Australia

Cheez wrote:
All else fails get someone's OEM Windows disc and throw it in, when it asks for the key ignore, choose your Vista and when it comes time to activate you explain the phone monkey its a Lenovo.

This. Manufacturer versions of Windows are always terrible anyway.

https://bf3s.com/sigs/5e6a35c97adb20771c7b713312c0307c23a7a36a.png

2008-12-17 22:20:02

#12

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7031|Cambridge (UK)

Hmm. As others have said, you're gonna have to phone them and possibly pay for what you should have had in the box it came in (as in if you buy a PC with OS pre-installed, imo, you should always get an OS disc with it, no exceptions).

2008-12-17 22:49:54

#13

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Hmm. As others have said, you're gonna have to phone them and possibly pay for what you should have had in the box it came in (as in if you buy a PC with OS pre-installed, imo, you should always get an OS disc with it, no exceptions).

I've decided to wait a year (I have programs I'll need installed in the following year, or I'll have a lot of trouble next year), wiping the hard drives clean, hidden drive and all, and dumping the computer (or getting a vista ultimate disc, installing XP on the laptop and putting Boxed Vista on the desktop).

Last edited by some_random_panda (2008-12-17 22:52:55)

2008-12-17 22:54:37

#14

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6704|King Of The Islands

Remove that useless partition while you're at it.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2008-12-17 23:02:43

#15

some_random_panda: Flamesuit essential; +454|6656

Cheez wrote:
Remove that useless partition while you're at it.

Will do. Hopefully it'll be easy to do while installing (it doesn't even show up in disc management).

2008-12-17 23:29:15

#16

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6704|King Of The Islands

Just format the drive, wiping out both partitions.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2008-12-18 00:10:29

#17

rdx-fx: ...; +955|6857

I've the T61p myself.

It runs beautifully after you blow away the junk partition & crap-ware laden factory XP install, then install a clean no-bullshit proper XP install.

Grab proper drivers for the T61/T61p here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. … 67853.html

Serously, my T61p (properly loaded) runs Team Fortress 2, Flight Simulator X, Photoshop, Solidworks, AutoCAD, and everything else I can throw at it. But not with the shitty factory install.

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