i wonder what surprise lenovo will bring us after Y500

Me bad I did not even realise that after using Win7 for so many years
I came across this feature as I was playing with the Storage Space features in Win8

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 3 2012, 01:48 AM

hi there,is someone know
the battery plan for y500,between balanced and high performance ,which 1 is better?
and also battery plan setting will affect 3dmark result or gaming or not?

2. I am aware that Windows 8 has its own partition management, and I have tried once. Bu it has its own limitation whereby you can shrink the volume up to certain amount. Beyond that, it is not allowable. In this case, I tried to shrink my C: (400++GB) to 100GB. But Windows 8 does not allow that.

And apparently, when I checked back to the Lenovo forum, there is issues about this "Partition and One-Key". They (forum moderator), said that you can't actually resize the partition at all! Not even a Megabyte!

If you resize the partition, the One-Key Recovery won't be functioning!

They should have made reference in the user guide! And be careful, this seems to apply to other Lenovo laptops as well which have the One-Key Recovery feature.

Anyway, I will send my laptop in just a while to IBM Malaysia. Hopefully, they can repair my laptop.

This post has been edited by AmyDazz: Dec 3 2012, 08:21 AM

Yes, I am aware that the OKR won't work if partition is changed.
OKR is basically a (tone down / rip off) of Thinkvantage suite long available in the Thinkpad series. When Lenovo bought Thinkpad from IBM, the wonderful blue botton in Thinkpad get migrated to the OKR in Ideapad (but with a lot of good features remove).
Ok, let me test if the Win8 restore and reset feature get mess up if I change partition in my Y580. If it work, then maybe it will be a better option than the broken OKR.

Bro? Seriously you wanna test it? I expect that you will encounter the same problem as mine. It's the risk you have to take.

Anyway, if it's working...than please report in here. Thanks.

It's alright. I never care about the OKR anyway (after using T series a long time and see what a proper tool should be At least there is a fair trade off there)

Will work on this after kids going to bed tonight

And you may want to look at this thread if you are keen to get back the OKR.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-...p/884193/page/2

Hope you get back your Y500 soon

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 3 2012, 10:41 AM

As in my case, Y500 does not have Optical Disc Drive (ODD). So, my option would only be to rely on the OKR should my system fails.

So, basically, I'm stucked at the "Winload.efi cannot be found". I, maybe can reinstall Windows 8. But how can I get the installation OEM of Windows 8? I have no idea man.

I sent the laptop already. Hopefully, they can fix it.

Well, I got store some win 7 installation ISO file and win 8 pro installation ISO file, so I no need to scare for windows corruption

But our Lenovo Y500 is pre-installed with Windows 8 (non-Pro version) right? How can we reinstall the Windows 8 with the Windows 8 Pro installation ISO?

Anyway, you know any legit links for me to download the Windows 8 Pro ISO ?

Sure Lenovo can do a factory reset. Unfortunately you will lose all the personal data / mods you done so far
But you may not need the ODD. Win8 (or Win7), if you manage to get a copy later, could be installed from iso in a external HDD.
Or you might want to think about doing a recovery media to external HDD next time
Ok, I think I will follow this tonight:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/13461...es-and-programs
It show the steps require to create a custom image for Win8 Refresh tools.
My 1st plan is as follow:
1. change the partition in Win8 of Y580. (btw, just to be clear, mine is a Win8Pro RM50 upgrade from Win7HB)
2. create a custom image for Win8 refresh.
3. Install a few apps.
4. run Win8 refresh and see how it go.
This is to see if Win8 refresh could be a viable alternative to OKR if we decide to resize partition. I don't aim to recover OKR

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 3 2012, 11:09 AM

Search at google.....

I searched already in Google. But there seems no direct download available like last time during Windows 7 era. Where we can rightly download from msdn.

We can download the Windows 8 Pro and burn the ISO. But that is no direct download, and I have to upgrade first.

Here is the link--->> http://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-...-efi-bootloader

U type abt these word:
Windows 8 ISO
U can dl those built 9200 as our win 8 is that build

Yup, the key come with your Y500 can only legitly activate a Win8 (non-pro).

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Added on December 3, 2012, 12:37 pmsss2sssss, any Y500 owners approach you for the Y500 keyboard protector yet? Can the Y580 keyboard protector fit?

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 3 2012, 12:37 PM

i didn't put any protector on it, but i using razer black window ultimate keyboard 2013,and razer taipan mouse ,green and red color light combined , it is just look too awesome and amazing!

Got one user PM me for wanna buy it, but I'll send the detail to him mid of Dec coz now I'm still not too free

Any Y500 owner already upgrade their HDD with SSD yet?

is there an option to install both SSD and HDD without using using ultrabay?

There is an extra slot available for mSata SSD only if not we have to sacrifice existing Sata HDD to replace it with SSD.