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Lenovo z580 reinstall windows onto the new hard drive

  • 10-10-2014 10:25pm
    #1
    thelibertyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭


    Hi guys i really hope u can help because i only have my laptop year and half last night my laptop froze so i turned it off and when i turned it back on i keopt hearing this slight beeping/clicking sound coming from the hardrive .basically looked into it the header was stuck on the platter apparently its an issue with these harddrives so my drive is **bleep**ed i cant recover nothing i have a new harddrive for it i put it in bare in mind i never made recovery disks for the machine. so then i put in a windows 8.1 install disk because the boot/app menu keeps coming up when i select the dvd drive it doesnt seem to be picking up the new install and to top it off when i try to go into the bios theres a password on the machine and im 100% i never set one iv tried all options anybody any idea why the machine wont pick up my windows 8 disk??

    thanks guys in advanced


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  • #2
    danger_mouse_tm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭danger_mouse_tm


    Easiest thing to do might be to call lenovo and they can supply you with windows 8 recovery media specifically for you laptop that should pick up the hard drive controller straight away. Failing that, you may have to go into your bios and drive the SATA setting to "compatible". As you can't get into the bios there's a problem right there. I've had some laptops come up and ask for a bios password, but because there was none set it was just a matter of pressing ENTER.
    I believe Lenovo will ask you for your warranty information (from the bios) or they may charge you for the call. In any case, It's about €40 for the recovery media. I think you could buy a copy of windows 8 from ebay for less - more than likely it's an MSDN copy but I know I guy that got one and he's running away fine - so far!
    I think I would get a copy of a windows 7 disk and see if you can boot from that and do your install. You might find it easier to upgrade to windows 8 afterwards.
    Only other solution would be to find someone who has the same (or similar lenovo and get them to create a recovery drive and then try a restore from their image.


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