if you don't mind forking out $180, I suggest sent back to lowyat SC and let them fix it for you.

I have my SSD install by them and they load back windows 8 and the one key recovery.

attach is the screen shot of the recovery partition done by them.

I don't have the chance to try out the recovery function yet but I manage to load into the software to perform recover if I want, so there should not be any issue as long the partition is maintain at your disk.

regarding the caddy bay, there are many external parties which work well but I have yet try on my Y500, but I came to know that Lenovo shop in Digital Mall do sell the caddy bay only specifically for Y series notebook for $150 but have order from them and could take months, order mine already from them.

This post has been edited by wengjoe: Sep 15 2013, 10:47 PM


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I replace the stock HDD to a Intel 520 SSD.

the stock HDD is lying somewhere in my targus backpack while waiting for the caddy bay.

the Lenovo store from Digital Mall say the caddy bay can be order but it will take very long.

true or not, I can't give an answer but I did place my order for the caddy bay since september

for those who is wondering which bay can be use on Y series, I brought mine from the below link and it work like a charm but of cause the fitting is not exact.

caddy bay

Y500 user here

I did not received any notification to upgrade to windows 10, it say validating windows for your PC, is been like this for months.

any user have the same issue as me ? should I just download the ISO file and upgrade manually ?