Lenovo 3000 and Valueline / Essential Desktops

[#1]

I left OneKey installed and deleted the D drive partition and resized my C drive using Administrative tools from the Control Panel.  Then I launched System Configuration from Administrative tools and unchecked the Start up for "Load Tray" in the Start Up Tab.  I had thought I had to disable a service but it was only the start up.

[#2]

How possible to uninstall OneKey Recovery??!?

It's outside of the OS, outside of C: drive (which I'm still struggling to find its hideout). It's not in the Add/Remove program list!

[#3]

I'm not sure whether this is correct - I think that as long as you keep drive C: and the unallocated space after drive D: in equivalent size, OneKey Recovery will work.

I did resized my drive D: and the unallocated space after it (of course) and my OneKey is still functioning.

[#4]

Did you move some of the space on D Drive to C drive ?? I have a friend that will do that for me ?? C Drive is so ????? I get up to 10GB of space then updates to Windows comes nd get 1/2 of that . I am down to %.54 now . What a mess

Ribbit

[#5]

As I mentioned on another thread - I made C 100GB, D 400GB and got rid of OneKey.  I have Acronis that I use to back up to an external USB drive. It works like a champ either to restore just the C partion or the entire disk.  I have all the space I need in C, and a much more secure and robust backup solution.

[#6]

My 3000H series is a rather old model which is bought 04/2007. I get only ~140GB out of the supposed to be 160GB HDD. Initially it was like ~30:90:20 (GB, in C:, D: and unallocated space respectively). Out of instinct I reduced the size of D: so that the unallocated space would have the equivalent size with C: (30:80:30) because I thought since the OneKey Recovery backup drive C: to the uallocated space, it shouldn't be very much smaller than C: (actually now my drive C: is 2/3 full).

Are you saying that you have only 10GB in drive C:, or am I getting you wrongly?

FYI: I used Norton PartitionMagic to do the resizing.

[#7]

I have 30 g on my C drive But now only 5.55 is free.

Ribbit

[#8]

It's still OK if you don't play around with software applications and huge games. Just put everything else in D:. A smaller drive C: can have faster backup/recovery.

[#9]

Except that... as you add new programs to D, C still fills up with entries to support D. As C gets smaller and smaller, it also becomes impossible to defrag.

I understand Lenovo providing a facility for people who hose their OS to recover it. But, there should be an option to allow someone to provide their own, more robust solution - which I did, though it cost me $50US for Acrosis True Image - it's much better all around.

BTW, when I put a newly formatted HD into the box, restored to it, and booted from it, Vista/One Key realized there was no service partition on my disk and asked if I wanted to uninstall OneKey.  I said "YES", and all was good.

[#10]

Thank you very much . I printed your replys so my friend will know what is going on . the price of Acrosis will be worth it to get out ofr this mess .

ribbit