First time here. I have bought an e530 with Windows 8 and during the first hour of working with it, I have a problem.
I have an SSD with Windows 7, which I want to use with my new e530. I have made a sysprep
of Windows 7 and installed the SSD onto the e530. I want to use the HDD that was inside e530 as second drive, instead of my DVD Drive.
I connected this HDD through a USB-to-SATA adapter to copy some files from my SSD to the HDD. Unfortunately, it didn't see the file system on the HDD (but first time I have booted to it and first boot into Windows 8) I've made some mistakes and I corrupted the filesystem on the HDD.
I tried a bunch of tricks to recover the GPT, but it didn't work. I have managed to recover the Lenovo_Recovery partition to my SSD using recovery tools.
And now I'm stuck, with this new things to me - EFI, GPT, etc. I don't how this stuff works, and I have been trying to understand this for hours - but nothing seems to work. I want to restore Windows 8 to the HDD, so it is there alive.
What I have done so far:
- Formatted the HDD
I took the PBRALL file from the Lenovo_Recovery
convert gpt create partition Primary size=1000 ID=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001 assign letter=W format quick LABEL=WINRE_DRV create partition efi size=260 assign letter=s format quick fs=fat32 LABEL=SYSTEM_DRV create par msr size=128 create partition primary noerr assign letter=t format quick LABEL=Windows8_OS shrink desired=12197 create partition Primary ID=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001 assign letter=q format quick LABEL=Lenovo_Recovery
It recreated the partitions
Copied contents of
SDRIVE.zip
toSYSTEM_DRV
partition- Copied contents of
WDRIVE.zip
toWINRE_DRV
partition - Copied restored
Lenovo_Recovery
back toLenovo_Recovery
partition
So now I have 3 system partitions:
SYSTE_DRV BOOT boot.sdi EFI BOOT bootx64.efi LenovoBT.efi Lenovo ... Microsoft ... WINRE_DRV\Recovery\WindowsRE\winre.wim Lenovo_Recovery (which contains install.wim and bunch of other things)
So i put back the HDD inside the laptop and tried to boot, but nothing works. It just doesn't boot to anything – no errors – nothing at all. When I choose this HDD manually for boot – just black screen blinks and that's all. it returns back to the devices boot menu.
SYSTEM_DRV is an EFI partition, so I don't understand why it doesn't boot, it has files needed inside.
Can anybody tell me what should be done to make it boot to recovery console or something like that? How to restore the Windows 8 from the Lenovo_Recovery install.wim image? As I understand, I have all the files where they should be, but why it doesn't work? How to troubleshoot such things?
Also, if somebody has good link where EFI booting process is explained in details that would be great because I still don't understand how it knows what partition to boot.