Thread: I wish to reformat my hard drive without deleting the recovery division?

I want to know is there any way to reinstate C: drive from the unseen drive when you have reformatted C. I can see the hidden drive as D: I can’t see an exe file in D: to start the restore

Wait for a minute! The S: panel is not a part of any part of Windows and neither is the D: panel. The only partition that windows insist upon is the first or boot partition. Anything else is optional and it's your option.

This is the secret. Do a clean putting in with NO Lenovo at all. Before you do, make sure you have all essential drivers. Install the OS. Then install what you want from the page of this web that has later releases. Then install all layered products.

But in both cases it is the booting partition to which MBR points. It is running w Windows PE 1.5 for XP and Windows PE 2.0 for Vista. If it doesn’t get interrupted by Think vantage/F11 it then hands over to full Vista or XP in the C: partition.

Did the Lenovo A31 at rest come with a floppy reader for the Ultrabay? If not and you can't use a diskette reader you might just try this. I think it's planned to solve a different problem and I never saw anyone productively use it for your problem but it could be worth trying.