Need help on this lenovon Power supply

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

If you can get the passwords cracked that's great as it will insure you have all the drivers for your hardware but to re-install windows is no biggie. You have a legal key, I have many times needed to call Microsoft because of registration key failures. I'm unsure of the code written into the software, be it a counter of installs or hardware detection but I can tell you that after a phone call I have never been denied. Your email addy and personal info are moot. You were given this machine with a valid license key which is meant to be attached to the machine.
At one time you would call and get a human but the last two times I was connected to a bot that gave me a new key to type in and was good to go. When doing this you will not have the MS police knocking at your door and to say the least even if there were such a thing, you're legal.

The only issue I see that may be a problem, or not, would be a bios password. If you need to change the boot order you must be able to enter the bios.

Thanks WoodButcher; i appreciate your interest on my issue,
Ok i was able to get in the Bios set up after doing the battery and jumper trick and send some pics of where i'm at;i get to enter Bios set up now by pressing F2 if i press f1 it won't boot up to windows i can see the window logo for a second but it goes back Pic on attachment CSC01566,
is there anything that you want me to try to change on the Bios set up that will make it reboot.I think it has to do with tempering with the security set up, thanks in advance.

[WoodButcher]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

The bios has no password set, leave that security page alone. It looks like you should be able to o a clean install if that is what you want.
Your first pic with the error, data integrity check failure, I'm guessing that is either corrupted data on the hard drive or a hard drive failure.
On the devices page I see the HD set in AHCI, thats odd for a mechanical hard drive. Was it upgraded to a SSD?

In any case I wouldn't hesitate to try the link I sent to you but first I would look to see if there is a "restore partition" on the drive as someone mentioned. Because XP was installed I'll bet they wiped the drive.
Contact the folks at lenovo customer support. I know they sell the discs you need if you can't do it any other way.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

The bios has no password set, leave that security page alone. It looks like you should be able to o a clean install if that is what you want.
Your first pic with the error, data integrity check failure, I'm guessing that is either corrupted data on the hard drive or a hard drive failure.
On the devices page I see the HD set in AHCI, thats odd for a mechanical hard drive.In any case I wouldn't hesitate to try the link I sent to you but first I would look to see if there is a "restore partition" on the drive as someone mentioned. Because XP was installed I'll bet they wiped the drive.
Contact the folks at lenovo customer support. I know they sell the discs you need if you can't do it any other way.

Thanks WoodButcher for being so patent with me. i really appreciate it, I'm not much savvy on PC software i do what i can for a person with 4 years in Portuguese primary school, all i know i learned the hard way by googling and text talking with people like you that want to help,
now i went to that site you gave me i did download to a DVD
windows 7 -64 ISO i put it in the lenovo drive and powered it up and it doesn't even see it, but for what i red it seems to me you need the Administrator password to get in and then you can do it from inside windows, i may be mistaken,I'm not American I'm Portuguese and sometimes have difficulties to make sense of things,hope you understand.
it has just one Partition, it just won't boot up anymore,the other day i was able to take it to WinXP logo by changing stuff in the Bios set up but i forgot how i did it,but it's useless any way cause no password,
i guess the only solution and even that I'm not sure! is to get windows XP/Win7 install CD,there are a few Cheap offers on line but I'm afraid to get riped off,as they the cheapo gets expensive sometimes, they give you info but is very confusing,do have any link for a WinXP that is trustworthy? is any advice would be appreciated

Ha; you sad if it was it upgraded to a SSD? i have no clue of this?

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Thanks WoodButcher for being so patent with me. i really appreciate it, I'm not much savvy on PC software i do what i can for a person with 4 years in Portuguese primary school, all i know i learned the hard way by googling and text talking with people like you that want to help,
now i went to that site you gave me i did download to a DVD
windows 7 -64 ISO i put it in the lenovo drive and powered it up and it doesn't even see it, but for what i red it seems to me you need the Administrator password to get in and then you can do it from inside windows, i may be mistaken,I'm not American I'm Portuguese and sometimes have difficulties to make sense of things,hope you understand.
it has just one Partition, it just won't boot up anymore,the other day i was able to take it to WinXP logo by changing stuff in the Bios set up but i forgot how i did it,but it's useless any way cause no password,
i guess the only solution and even that I'm not sure! is to get windows XP/Win7 install CD,there are a few Cheap offers on line but I'm afraid to get riped off,as they the cheapo gets expensive sometimes, they give you info but is very confusing,do have any link for a WinXP that is trustworthy? is any advice would be appreciated

Ha; you sad if it was it upgraded to a SSD? i have no clue of this?

I took this from other site i wonder if is this i have to do to install the win7ISO?

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...up2-box-files/

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

The bios has no password set, leave that security page alone. It looks like you should be able to o a clean install if that is what you want.
Your first pic with the error, data integrity check failure, I'm guessing that is either corrupted data on the hard drive or a hard drive failure.
On the devices page I see the HD set in AHCI, thats odd for a mechanical hard drive. Was it upgraded to a SSD?

In any case I wouldn't hesitate to try the link I sent to you but first I would look to see if there is a "restore partition" on the drive as someone mentioned. Because XP was installed I'll bet they wiped the drive.
Contact the folks at lenovo customer support. I know they sell the discs you need if you can't do it any other way.

Hi WoodButcher You wre Wright when you've sad
(On the devices page I see the HD set in AHCI, thats odd for a mechanical hard drive. Was it upgraded to a SSD?

I changed it IDE and voila it started up to WinXP Logo and Password,
now you think that i can use the Linux Password cracker? is there any free one out there i can use please point me to it thanks in advance.

[WoodButcher]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

OK, that disc you burned should be your new copy of win7, it is no longer an ISO but bootable media. If you can get the bios to boot from cd/dvd you'll be set.

In the startup menu of the bios you need to switch this on, I don't know if it will be under "primary boot sequence" (should be)
"automatic boot sequence" (probably need to disable this)
"or error boot sequence" but once you get it swiched hit F10 to save and exit the bios. When you reboot it should open win7 install from the disc.

I'm not much savvy on PC software i do what i can for a person with 4 years in Portuguese primary school

LOL, neither am I, but I have toasted a few PC in my time!


What little I know has come the same way as you, get a problem,,, google it and ask for help. As for the school, you've got one up on me, "primary school" as you call it there I'm guessing we would call college,,, I didn't make it through grade school,,, and your bi-lingual at least. Don't sell yourself short!

[WoodButcher]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

We overlapped posts, yes, you can try the crack tools.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

We overlapped posts, yes, you can try the crack tools.

Hi; WoodButcher i tried this free program,link bellow, i boot from the Cd follow instructions like it shows in the Youtube video, and did not work for me,
It say something like this (Can't find Sam Files)
i think this one has extra encryption, no wonder why i have to hit keyboard keys - CTRL-ALT-DELETE -before NAME and PASSWORD,I've never seen this way ,normally we do it to shutdown the PC.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MoxH...eature=related

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

I put portuguese commentaries at the end.

It has not extra encryption, just the partitions with different names.

If you put the dvd you created in your other , working machine, what does it show in it? A bunch of files and folders, or the name of your iso file ?

Change the order in the Primary Boot Sequence so that the cd-rom is listed as the first one. Then, try to boot to your dvd.

If you want to avoid license problems, use windows 7. No need to risk having difficulties for finding hardware drivers.

Portuguese mode - ON

Com o dvd que você criou, veja em outro micro quais arquivos aparecem. Se aparecem várias pastas e arquivos, ou se aparece o arquivo com o nome .ISO.
Se aparecerm várias pastas e arquivos :

No Lenovo, mude o Primary Boot Sequence para que o cd-rom aparece primeiro. Então, com o dvd que você criou no drive, tente iniciar a máquina. Para ter certeza se o dvd está bom, teste ele em outro computador, para ver se dá boot, ou teste com outro cd que você tenha certeza que é booteável nesse Lenovo.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

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I put portuguese commentaries at the end.

It has not extra encryption, just the partitions with different names.

If you put the DVD you created in your other , working machine, what does it show in it? A bunch of files and folders, or the name of your ISO file ?

Change the order in the Primary Boot Sequence so that the CD-ROM is listed as the first one. Then, try to boot to your DVD.

If you want to avoid license problems, use windows 7. No need to risk having difficulties for finding hardware drivers.

Portuguese mode - ON






Com o dvd que você criou, veja em outro micro quais arquivos aparecem. Se aparecem várias pastas e arquivos, ou se aparece o arquivo com o nome .ISO.
Se aparecerm várias pastas e arquivos :

No Lenovo, mude o Primary Boot Sequence para que o cd-rom aparece primeiro. Então, com o dvd que você criou no drive, tente iniciar a máquina. Para ter certeza se o dvd está bom, teste ele em outro computador, para ver se dá boot, ou teste com outro cd que você tenha certeza que é booteável nesse Lenovo.

Thanks RogFanther if you talking about ophracrack -SLAX;i opened it and there are a few folders and files in it, Isolinuxcfg is there too,
i can boot the cd and it runs data on black screen til a certain point where it
stops and say (FATAL ERROR OCURRED-DATA FOR LIVE CD NOT FOUND,
and then it asks if ,ARE YOU USING UNSUPPORTED SCSI?


And with the other program that i took the video from YouTube isoLinux it runs good per instructions but it wont reset the password it shows all the users passwords encrypted or locked and it says also

CANNOT FIND VALUE C/SAM/DOMAINS/ACOUNT/USERS/NAMES


I did change the drive, put in primary drive DVD drive,i can easily boot from these two soft wares.

ha; don't bother to write in Portuguese cause i understand better in english about the words as software and hardware as concern, cause i learned in english and I'm not familiar with Portuguese terms,i appreciate your effort though,my problem most the times is the understanding of the software and how to work with it in the PC ,not that i don't understand english,i know i,m not a good english writer so nor Portuguese for that matter,i do what i can with the skills i acquired.

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Please, fill the profile details so that we know where in the world you are.

I mean to see if the windows 7 iso you burnt was ok. It it is, boot from it and attempt to install windows. Hardware drivers for your machine can be found in the Lenovo home page.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Please, fill the profile details so that we know where in the world you are.

I mean to see if the windows 7 iso you burnt was ok. It it is, boot from it and attempt to install windows. Hardware drivers for your machine can be found in the Lenovo home page.

I tried that too but it doesn't boot with it, although i used the same process as the other programs that i posted in the previous post,i try to open the folder
in the DVD dl x17-58997 ISO burner, and it sais that i can't open the folder,
am i missing something?

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

hmm, well, put the dvd disk in a good, working computer .Wait a little to see if it shows an "Autorun" menu.

If nothing appears, open My Computer, then see in the drive letter corresponding to the dvd-rom if it shows a name, or just "DVD-RO)M Drive".
In windows explorer, click in the drive leter in the left pane to see it if shows the files in the right pane.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

hmm, well, put the dvd disk in a good, working computer .Wait a little to see if it shows an "Autorun" menu.

If nothing appears, open My Computer, then see in the drive letter corresponding to the dvd-rom if it shows a name, or just "DVD-RO)M Drive".
In windows explorer, click in the drive leter in the left pane to see it if shows the files in the right pane.

Thanks rogfanther;i have some screen shots of it,i also put in the good laptop and try to boot with it but it also doesn't see it,i did not change the drive on this one to be the first to boot from it though!

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Maybe this thread should be moved to the computer forum.

Well, you didn´t burn the image to the disk. You burnt the file of the image (ISO file ) to the disk, as a file.

Look in your cd burner software for an option like "Burn Image" or something like that. If you made the linux discs and they are bootable, you should have done the same for burning the windows disc. Retrace your steps and see what was made in a different way.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Maybe this thread should be moved to the computer forum.

Well, you didn´t burn the image to the disk. You burnt the file of the image (ISO file ) to the disk, as a file.

Look in your cd burner software for an option like "Burn Image" or something like that. If you made the linux discs and they are bootable, you should have done the same for burning the windows disc. Retrace your steps and see what was made in a different way.

Do you mean download the WIN7ISO again from the website and burn it to another DVD? since this one is not DVDWR is DVD DL-R,

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Why dual layer? How big is the ISO ? My win7 disc is a normal disc, 4.7GB. As long as it fits the image size, the kind of disc should not matter. I normally burn to a cdrw - dvdrw when testing integrating service packs, hotfixes and the like.

If you burn it the wrong way, it doesn´t matter how many times you download it. What I mean is you must burn the iso the same way you burnt the iso of the linux tool ( you burn it to a cd or dvd, didn´t you ? ).

If you are having trouble burning the iso, find a program called IsoBuster. It will be easier to burn the image to the disk in the correct way with it.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

Why dual layer? How big is the ISO ? My win7 disc is a normal disc, 4.7GB. As long as it fits the image size, the kind of disc should not matter. I normally burn to a cdrw - dvdrw when testing integrating service packs, hotfixes and the like.

If you burn it the wrong way, it doesn´t matter how many times you download it. What I mean is you must burn the iso the same way you burnt the iso of the linux tool ( you burn it to a cd or dvd, didn´t you ? ).

If you are having trouble burning the iso, find a program called IsoBuster. It will be easier to burn the image to the disk in the correct way with it.

Thanks rogfanther; i was able to upload the win7ISO from other site and did burn it with IsoBurner that i already have to the DVD DL and i was able to boot up in the Linovo pc i was able to get to where it asks
Which type of install,UPGRADE OR Custom advanced:what shall i do next?

i tried to go Custom it shows
( Disco 0 Partitions 1 ;Windows XP 465.8GB

it says; windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 partition1,

i click details and it says; Windows Cannot be installed to this Disk,has an MBR Partition table,on EFI systems windows can only be installed to GPT Disks.

it also has a choice of format disk save drivers and so on.

what do you suggest i do next ?thanks in advance.

[rogfanther]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

In that screen there should be an option called "More Options" or maybe "Advanced" or something like that. Delete all partitions / boot records, then try again letting windows decide how topartition the disk.

Also, you can take a look in bios to see if there is some optino for disabling EFI.

[ivtec]

Re: Need help on this lenovon Power supply

In that screen there should be an option called "More Options" or maybe "Advanced" or something like that. Delete all partitions / boot records, then try again letting windows decide how topartition the disk.

Also, you can take a look in bios to see if there is some optino for disabling EFI.

Thanks:rogfanther i was able to install the win7 from the dvd,now i have the min7,but it seems to me i need to install drivers from lenovo,and from the windows website.
It asked me for the key when i was installing ,i put it in but it did not accepted it ,i guess i need to be connected to the Internet,

Any help from then on for the next steps would be appreciated.