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    How Do You Clean Install OS on mSSD for Y580?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by voozers, Sep 6, 2012.

  1. voozers

    voozers Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys,

    I ordered my Y580 last week and am waiting for it to come in. It is the 20994HU model with FHD and 1 TB+32GB SSD. I've been reading clean install guides for a while so I can start when my laptop comes particularly this Y570 clean install one. (I tried linking it and it keeps showing up wrong so the link isn't working -.-').

    http://forums..net/showthread.php/62-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y570-Clean-Install-Guide


    Ok here's the tricky part. I'm planning on either a M4 Crucial 128GB or 256GB mSSD for the mSATA port to replace the 32GB one. I'm planning on using it as the boot drive for OS as well as use it to store apps (Office, iTunes, Photoshop), games (League of Legends, Skyrim) and steam. The 1TB I want to leave there for storage (documents, photos, music, movies, etc...). BUT I also want to leave a One Key Recovery Partition on the HDD (so I can use one key in case something goes wrong).

    So is there anyway to set up with One Key by just leaving a pre-existing partition rather than deleting it? I think the bigger issue is that the configuration I have is using Lenovo Rapid Drive so the 32GB mSSD and 1TB HDD are recognized as one virtual C drive (at least that's how it works according to Lenovo). So I feel like removing the 32GB mSSD will just botch One Key.

    Has anyone done a clean install with my configuration? Tips would be appreciated or even a guide since this will be first time for me doing it. And even better is if someone can tell me how to do a clean install AND keep One Key (but if not it's ok just tell me how to make my new mSSD a boot and apps drive and the HDD a second storage drive).
     
    voozers, Sep 6, 2012
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  2. voozers

    voozers Notebook Consultant

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    Bump anyone? ^to summarize I just want clean install plus One Key.
     
    voozers, Sep 7, 2012
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  3. Bungral

    Bungral Notebook Consultant

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    I'm pretty much in the same boat... My laptop will be showing up in a week or so and I want to keep the One Key working with a new mSATA.

    Did you manage to get an answer?
     
    Bungral, Sep 12, 2012
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  4. voozers

    voozers Notebook Consultant

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    Yea I had to research around and put answers together , it's all on the Y580 Owner's thread. You'll find the answers from page 146-150. In summary you have to separate the SSD and HDD (as they come set up together as one virtual drive) using the Rapd Drive tool. Then reformat partitions and do a clean install.
     
    voozers, Sep 12, 2012
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  5. link626

    link626 Asus GL502VM, Lenovo Y580, Asus K53TA

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    does the bios recognize the msata ssd as a boot drive in the boot order list?
     
    link626, Sep 23, 2012
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