Bad sectors cloning for lenovo B570 recovery partition

[get2guy]

Hi,

I run into a series issue.


some facts before:
*The 600GB WD HDD has bad sectors (checked with WD test tool-boot cd)
*The bad sectors are only on the beginning of the physical drive (D partition and LENOVO_PART are intact and fully readable)
*Managed to recover most of the data of C drive (With restorer 2000)
*Managed to clone the D partition and LENOVO_PART to a new 500GB HDD


I can't seems to find a way to use the tiny recovery button, its failing and asking me to boot from cd.
Don't have any of B570 model but I tried to use a recovery cd of T410 to boot. but I can't see any restore partition.
Only cd recovery option.


Any help on how to recover from the cloned recovery partition will be great.

Thanks!

 

[Harvey]

Contact Lenovo's tech support. Many laptop makers will sell you a recovery disk set for around $25 - $30 if the model isn't so old that they're out of stock.

Your license for Windows is assigned to your machine so yhey're not selling you a new copy of Windows, just the mechanical means to re-install the copy you already own.

It sounds like your drive is failing, and you'll probably want a new hard drive. If so, you could also borrow a copy of in 7 Home Premium and use the installation key number that's probably on the bottom of your machine. Again, this isn't piracy. It's your legitimate key.

If you go with another copy of Windows, before you start, download all of the current drivers for your machine to a folder on a flash drive. Once you've done the basic Windows installation, copy the entire folder to the Downloads folder on your drive, and install all the drivers from there.

If you're lucky, even if your drive is failing, you may be able to to pull off all of your files by connecting it to another machine as a slave or to your laptop through a SATA to USB adapter.

Hope that helps. Good luck.