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Chapter 3. Lenovo OneKey Recovery system
TheLenovoOneKeyRecoverysystemissoftwaredesignedtobackupand
restoreyourcomputer.Youcanuseittorestorethesystempartitiontoits
originalstatusincaseofasystemfailure.Youcanalsocreateuserbackups
foreasyrestorationasrequired.
 Backing up the system partition
Youcanbackupthesystempartitiontoanimagefile.Tobackupthesystem
partition,dothefollow ing:
1 ClickOneKeyRecoveryonthehomescreentostarttheLenovoOneKey
Recoverysystem.
2 ClickSystemBackup.
3 Selectaback‐uplocationandclickNexttostartthebackup.
 Restoring
Youcanchoosetorestorethesystempartitiontoitsoriginalstatusortoa
previouslycreatedback‐uppoint.Torestorethesystempartition,dothe
following:
1 PresstheNovobuttonorclickOneKeyRecoveryonthehomescreento
starttheLenovoOneKeyRecoverysystem.
2 Click SystemRecovery .Thecomputerrestartstotherecoveryenvironment.
3 Followtheon‐screeninstructionstorestorethesystempartitiontoits
originalstatusortoapreviouslycreatedback‐uppoint.
Note:Toutiliz e thefeatures oftheOneKeyRecoverysystem,yourharddiskalreadyincludesa
hiddenpartitionbydefaulttostorethesystemimagefileandtheO n eKeyRecovery
systemprogramfiles.Thisdefaultpartit ionishiddenforsecurityreasons,whichiswhy
theavailablediskspaceislessthan
thestatedcapacity.
Note:
• Youcanchooseaback‐uplocationonthelocalharddiskdriveoranexternalstorage
device.
• Theback ‐upprocessmaytakeawhile.
• Theback ‐upprocessisonl y availablewhenWindowscanbestartednormally.
Note:
• Therecov eryprocessisirrev ersible.Ma kesuretobackupanydatayouwishtosaveonthe
systempartitionbeforestartingtherecoveryprocess.
• There coveryprocessmaytakeawhile. MakesuretoconnecttheACpoweradapterto
yourcomputerduringtherecoveryprocess.
• Theab oveinstructionsshouldbefollowedwhenWindowscanbestartednormally.
• Whenthecomputerisinhibernationstatus,youcannotstarttheLenovoOneKeyRecovery 
systembypressingtheNovobuttonforWindows7system.