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Windows 8 Recovery Media

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Taff™

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 4:14PM

Just managed to mess up my first Win 8 setup and can't access the Windows system. Can someone point me to a download for recovery media. (64 bit)?

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Jock1e

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 4:25PM

Taff try Ctrl+Alt+Delete it worked with me when I could only get a black screen.

Does safe mode not work for you.Shift +F8 it is now.

Not sure what Microsoft was thinking about not putting safe mode on start up.

Heaven knows how folk are supposed to fix their computers without it.

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Jock1e

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 4:29PM

Just to add ctrl+alt+del only got me into task manager and I have not got a clue how I managed to get into safe mode from there as nothing else was working.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 4:34PM

see here Refresh

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Taff™

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 5:11PM

Hi Fruit Bat /\0/\ - I can't get Windows 8 to boot and I haven't burnt the recovery media yet. (Which is what I'm looking for) It won't even go into safe mode or to the Lenovo onekey recovery.

The actual message I've got is:

A required device can't be accessed Error code 0x0c0000225 and relates to windows\system32\winload.efi

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 5:38PM

What did you install it from?

If you have only just got it then do a clean reinstall.

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Taff™

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 5:53PM

It's a new Lenovo H520s from PCW (I know, don't ask - not my choice!) Everything was installed fine and working. Then I tried to repartition the 1TB drive and on reboot - you guessed it .....

The Lenovo recovery "Onekey" accessed using F2 just doesn't work although I can see the various partitions using Linux and GParted. Any ideas?

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rdave13

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 6:22PM

Open your saved email receipt from Microsoft then you can access your account online. Once logged in you can download 8 again, after it gets the files ready you can select 'install by creating media'. That will give you the iso file. You could use that to try a repair.

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Taff™

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 6:28PM

rdave13 - Thanks but this was my first Win8 install for a friend of mine at the pub. Didn't register it with Microsoft and turned off any usage feedback or anonymous stats when I installed it. (That might have been a mistake!)

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Taff™

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 7:07PM

what exactly is the file winload.efi and where should it reside? What does it do?

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rdave13

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Posted November 3, 2012 at 8:18PM

This gives some idea.

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