You are looking for this part at the bottom of the page: You should order the Recovery Media from Lenovo (the last time I did that for someone, it was not all that expensive, and it was delivered overnight no extra charge, but that was several years ago, so I cannot say how it works, now). I will not lecture you about the importance of backups before doing something like this, as I think you are already kicking yourself hard enough without any extra help.įirst, this is ideally what you should be doing, now: What now? I removed everything.My dear vish: I can't say to him that, "ok no problem, you got wine to run windows application on openSUSE".
But, it is my friends system and he only got ready to experience linux distros after seeing what Compiz Fusion could do. If it was my laptop, I would have been happy that even though by mistake I got rid of Windows. Only openSUSE boots, so the system only has openSUSE now. That's where the problem starts.Įven now none of the Windows Installation media (7, 8, 8.1) boot. Someone told me to perform clean installation of windows 8.1 by cleaning everything from hdd and I did by gparted by booting into opensuse 13.1 kde live including recovery partitions. I tried LinuxMint 17.1, Knoppix 7.4.2 and gparted-live 0.17.01Īnd windows installer dvd and live usb of windows 7, 8, 8.1 also didn't boot. None of the linux ditros except openSUSE 13.1 and openSUSE 13.2 could boot.
We wanted to up upgrade the system to Windows 8.1 and also any linux distro. It has got EFI BIOS of Phoenix SecureCore Tiano, BIOS Version - 5FCN91WW (old version), Core i5-3210M, 1TB HDD, etc and it came with Windows 8 preinstalled. This is about a different system, friends laptop actually - Lenovo Ideapad Z580