Lenovo OneKey Recover function stops working after cloning with ATI 12 Plus Pack
After reading many posts regarding people having problem with Lenovo's OneKey Recovery which stops working after the cloning, I took care to clone my new Lenovo Y400's 1TB hard drive (using ATI 2012 with Plus Pack) onto another identical 1TB drive (same model from the same manufafacture) to leave no chances to OneKey Recovery detects anything out of sort and stops working.
But somehow the darn Lenovo OneKey Recovery feature's still able to detect that the drive is the clone drive and not the OEM drive so it slapped me with that dreaded "Incorrect partition" error people are complaining about and refused to work any further.
Plese help and tell me what I have to do to retain the Lenovo OneKey Recovery function when cloning my Lenovo Y400 laptop hard drive (Win 8 with UEFI)?
Thank you GroverH or your response.
My Lenovo laptop (Y400) has Windows 8 in an UEFI platform so I have to extract the hard drive and move to another non-UEFI computer to perform the cloning via the Recovery CD (otherwise UEFI will prevent the Recovery CD from booting successfully).
My thinking is that since the source and target drive are practically identical (same manufacturer/model/size) and if the cloning is byte-by-byte or even sector-by-sector then at the end, the target drive should be identical to the source drive.
If that's true, i.e., Acronis produces exact clone, then wouldn't the checksums or signatures should be the same between the 2 drives?
What I don't understand is how in the world Lenovo's OneKey Recovery function still be able to detect that I'm running on the clone drive? (except for using this OneKey Recovery, I can boot and use my laptop with the clone with no problem whatsoever)
I wonder which of the 2 following is true:
Explanation A: Acronis clone is actually NOT byte-by-byte (so the target is not truly identical to the source)
Explanation B: Lenovo does NOT use drive checksum/signature to detect clone drive.
My comments relate to the procedure recommended which is recommended by Acronis for laptops. That is:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931
a. Install target inside laptop and attach the source via another method such as an external disk.
b. Boot from the TI Recovery CD to perform the procedure.
c. Afterwards, do not boot clone with source attached during the first boot.
If the laptop can handle two disks inside, (or a thinkpad ultrbay) then the location could be modified.
In past years, The Lenova Thinkpad has used special head geometry for its internal system disks. Whether that continues with Windows8, I do not know. I am not a technician nor am I an Acronis employee.
As part of the Acronis cloning procedures, there is an option to do the clone manually and to use the "as is" as the move method. This method is the closest to matching the target to the source. Most cloning programs do not provide an identical identical clone. All differ from the source in some ways--which usually do not interfere with the function of the clone.
Version 2012 does not support Windows 8 so this could be an issue during the Aconris boot phase and definitely for ongoing backups. Perhaps someone else can offer some directions which would be more beneficial to your needs.