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Solid State Drive (SSD)

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hawaiianlungs

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I have a Lenovo T430 new computer. Windows 7 64 bit with lots of RAM and HD space.

All of the main software including the boot software is on the main C drive which is fine.

This computer has a Solid State Drive to make start up faster.

I am setting up an external hard drive. I had to format it before I could use it. I accidentally formatted the Solid State Drive. How do I make it back to the way it was?

Just make it active?
System restore?
Other?

This is a new computer for me so I do not know it well. I am used to XP without Solid State Drives.

So the question pertains to the solid state drive. I formatted it. How do I make it back to the way it was? Do I have to re-install everything?
 
Since it's brand new, the simplest fix is to press the F11 key during boot, when "To Start the Product Recovery Program" appears at the top of the screen. Follow the prompts to recover the preloaded Lenovo factory image, using the Product Recovery Program.
 
It is new, but I have loaded much software on it. A lot. Can I somehow just restore the solid state drive? By making it active? By system restore.
 
I haven't downloaded and read the user manual, but I'm pretty sure with Windows 8 preinstalled on the HDD, that the SSD is setup as a file cache for accelerating the HDD via Intel smart response technolgy (Intel SRT) which is managed by the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software.

Look at the factory installed software on your PC and see if Intel software is installed, start reading your user manual, and check Lenovo's support pages for what you need to do to reinstall the caching software for the SSD.

There's also the possibility that Lenovo wrote proprietary caching software and they're not using Intel's. But you'll need to dig into your user manual and check that out. I'd still suggest a factory restore, and let having to reinstall all your software be a lesson learned...😀

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