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Now see the amount of space free, and %free etc. What does disk manager show you for % of partition in use? So your mounting the partition to a drive - and then you look on the drive and you don't see any files. You could create a 2TB partition and not put any files on it ) "even when i select "show hidden files/folders" yet the partition is about 13GB in size."Ī partition size has nothing to do with size of files on said partition.
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Safely eject your flash drive and try to boot from it! Open a command prompt run bootsect (from your computer) with the following arguments (assuming your flash drive is mount as F): bootsect /NT60 F: /force /mbrĦ. Copy the bootsect utility from boot\bootsect.exe to some directory on your computer.ĥ. Copy the data from each of the other recovery DVDs onto the flash drive sequentially.Ĥ. Copy the data from your boot DVD onto the flash drive.ģ.
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Assuming that the boot disk works like Microsoft's Windows Vista/7/8 installation discs and the data on the other recovery DVDs will still be usable if you consolidate it onto one flash drive, the following procedure should work.Ģ. That said, while I don't have any specific knowledge of how Lenovo's recovery disks work, I suspect that if you have a sufficiently large flash drive it is possible. It seems likely that other customers have had this problem before and Lenovo would be willing to accommodate you. I agree with goretsky that the best solution is probably to contact Lenovo's technical support and see if they can assist you. I assume it's more complex than inserting a DVD, dragging the files over to the USB stick & then repeating another 2 times.? I can't do this due to the "only once" thing Lenovo has put in place. I have the boot DVD & i have the 3 recovery DVDs, but as i said, i'd like this on USB stick rather than DVDs. Well positives & negatives on this one.ġ) regards the windows key - i've got that, that's not a problemģ) i'd still like to put the data onto USB stick.