AlexBar

OK, the new drive arrived and I have installed it. Now - time to clone the drive. First I tried Acronis True Image and Bootable media DVD disc I have created. It just looked the most impressive on the screen. And it worked just fine. Up to a point. The DVD uploaded the Acronis page which offered me to restore the drive from its True Image. I connected the external Toshiba hard drive with the True Image and it started to restore. In several minutes time it restored the drive successfully (or so it said), restarted and all I could get to from there was a black page with the short message: "BOOTMNGR is missing. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart." All restarts returned to the same page. Switching to ODD did not help. It could not even recognise its own "Bootable Media" disc. ( I am not an expert so I could do something wrong here, I am far from claiming that Acronis does not work) Nevertheless. Since I know nothing about hard drives, i have created several different backups. That proved to be a good idea. Back up your backup if you do not know what are you doing. I had another DVD - Lenovo own System Restore disc. (Not their OneKey restore 3 disc set, but still.) Surely Lenovo Restore should restore a Lenovo computer.. This one went to download Windows and offered me to restore the drive from lenovo backup. I had it on the same external Toshiba drive. I connected the drive, but the system was unable not recognise it. Because, naturally, Toshiba driver was not installed. It did not prevent Acronis to see the drive though. The system gave me the list of gazillion files to choose my driver. I had no idea and gave up. Because I had another restore DVD ! This one created yesterday with Windows own backup system. A good old Windows 7 64-bit restore disc. And this one worked flawlessly. Downloaded the OS, recognised the external Toshiba hard drive and copied my old disc from the Windows disc image I created yesterday. All data, partitions, all apps - everything is in place. I do not know about the hidden one because it is .. well.. hidden, but it looks and works absolutely identical. So I am happy, and I have only one question - why on Earth do we need all that dedicated "specialist" aftermarket recovery software if Windows 7 does it so well? At least in my case. So for now, until someone gives me the reason to do otherwice, I am going to forget about Acronis & Co and use the intergated Windows recovery/backup system. It is simple and it just works.

OK, it just arrived. Fingers crossed :)

Thanks Ken, I checked your link - looks good. BTW you can download Acronis WD edition from WD site for free. http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en I will try it as soon as the new drive arrives. I hope it will work. As I said I am a bit suspicious because the Acronis backup files take much less space compared to the Lenovo own OneKey recovery backup estimate. And the only reason (as far as I can see) that Acronis creates the backup successfully and OneKey does not is that, unlike Acronis, OneKey scans the damaged areas. But that is my layman's guess. Let's see, I will post the results.

Hello, the hard drive on my Lenovo G770 has developed some faulty areas and I have bought a replacement. I would like to clone my old drive, but the problem is - it does not allow me to create the OneKey system recovery discs ( this is a set of Lenovo discs that creates a true copy of an old disc including a hidden partition etc) . I tried several times - it just stops. Same result with the Windows backup. I managed to create a system image and a system recovery DVD with the Windows 7. I also created a Disc and Partition Backup with Acronis True Imange. I also copied the ( D :/) content - Lenovo apps and drivers. Thing is - Lenovo OneKey system restore needs three DVD discs, while the Windows system recovery takes just one. So I guess it does not copy everything... So I wonder if this is enough to create a true copy of my old hard drive, including lenovo hidden partition/ system recovery partition? My computer works fine so far, it just sends me messages of a hard drive fault from time to time, asking me to do a backup asap. As far as I understand the drive will fail sooner than later, but the only visible problem I have so far is its inability to create a proper OneKey recovery set of discs or create a full backup using Windows. ( I know it is a physical drive fault, not a bug or any software problem: I have reformatted the drive, and the problem is still there). Of course I can always buy a OneKey recovery discs from Lenovo, but I think it is not fair to sell these discs (for £20) to a customer whose hard drive has failed. Recovery discs should be free. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

I have bought BeeWi dongle and it works. It is very cheap on Amazon. I have already bought BeeWi dongle and it works. It is very cheap on Amazon. Just in case tou have similar problem - they sell it as BeeWi BBA200. Now, there are BBA200 A0 and BBA 200 B0. The manufacturer confirmed that B0 works with Win 7 64, and A0 does not. And it is absolutely tiny.

Thanks Randy, I went through all that already. It did not work. Now the manufacturer confirmed that his dongle does not work with 64-bit Win 7 and recommended me to use the embedded Windows 7 Bluetooth software which will work with their dongle. But I have no idea how to do it, I am unable to trace any embedded Win 7 Bluetooth software in my OS. For those who face similar problem all i have found so far is this instruction of how to install the driver http://bluetoothinstaller.com/ but this is a bit too intrusive and may not be necessary if the driver is already installed. Methinks. One lesson is there for sure do not believe the manufacturer if he says the dongle will work with Win 7. It may, but only with 32-bit. I am still looking for one that works with my OS. It is Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit. There are some here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Browse.aspx?type=Hardware&category=Networking&subcategory=Bluetooth%20Adapters like Toshiba ones but thier price a bit too high to my liking. Any advice is highly appreciated.

Hello guys. My computer can not find any Bluetooth device. It does not have an integrated card, so I have bought a USB Bluetooth adapter. The system says its drivers are installed successfully it is working properly. The Bluetooth Enumerator is shown in Settings-Hardware so the driver is Microsoft. "Allow Bluetooth devices to find this comp" is checked "Allow Bluetooth devices to connect" is checked Bluetooth support service (bthserv) is shown as "Started" in the services. It is set as Local system. My Bluetooth mouse and Bluetooth enabled mobile phone both are switched on work well and should be visible. There is no interference from other sources Still when I click Add device my computer can not recognize any (I have lenovo G770 laptop, lenovo Bluetooth mouse and Sony Ericsson phone). When I press "connect" on my mouse it blinks but can not find the computer either. Can anyone tell me what possibly can be wrong? (I found an integrated lenovo G550 Bluetooth card - do you think it will work with my G770?) Many thanks for your advice, Alex