I got a Lenovo G580 laptop about 15 months ago, and I was never able to make the restore "disks" that Lenovo's procedure explains. It used to be that factory systems let you make one set of restore DVDs, but with Windows 8, they say that is no longer available, but there is a procedure to make a restore thumb drive, but it doesn't work, when I try running the restore off of the thumb drive (I've tried using 3 different thumb drives) it says partitions missing. This is a known problem and in the Lenovo forum they said there is no solution for it and they don't offer any other help (my next laptop will NOT be a Lenovo as they've left me high and dry).
If I get a retail copy of a Win 8 disk, since there is no key sticker on the laptop, will it still work using EFI and my CMOS embedded key, will it activate if I use my own Win 8 disk? Yes, it came with win 8.0.
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