Operating System Installation Error - Windows 7 Lenovo Total Recovery

Flash4Ever

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Hi there,

Hoping you could help me out. I have a Lenovo Q Series 150 All-In-One PC. The Hard Drive started clicking and has failed. The PC is no longer under warranty. I purchased a 32GB SSD to replace it. I have the original Lenovo Total Recovery Discs (4 in total) for this PC as well. However once I get to Disc 2, I will get an error saying "Operating System installation error".

I've examined the SSD on my PC and what seems to be happening is during the installation, the disc appears to be setting up 3 Partitions (One for the OS which is 4.64GB total, one for System Recovery which is 100MB total, and one for a Lenovo Partition which is 25GB total. Obviously the OS is going on the 4.64 GB Partition and filling it up when it should be going on the 25GB Lenovo Partition. There is no option to select what partition you'd like the OS to go on. Is there a way to switch this around to tell the disc to install on the Lenovo Partition instead of the other partition that is set up automatically? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
 
Solution
Most likely the SSD total capacity is insufficient for Factory Recovery installation. You need the same capacity (or higher) drive as the one that failed. 32 GB is a lot less than the hard drive which failed. If the Lenovo partition needs 25 GB of that, that only leaves 7 GB for Windows 7 - - not enough.

Because SDDs are relatively expensive that will probably mean you'll have to buy an HDD and recover to that instead.
Most likely the SSD total capacity is insufficient for Factory Recovery installation. You need the same capacity (or higher) drive as the one that failed. 32 GB is a lot less than the hard drive which failed. If the Lenovo partition needs 25 GB of that, that only leaves 7 GB for Windows 7 - - not enough.

Because SDDs are relatively expensive that will probably mean you'll have to buy an HDD and recover to that instead.
 
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Observe which one it is writing to first, it is probably going down the list of partitions when it is installing. I would go to Gparted and download their iso and manually configure the the partition table in the order you think it is installing it. My guess is that the recovery disks shouldn't override this.