- Dec 23, 2004
- 1,569
- 3
- 81
Hello all
My wife's G580 has recently started hanging at a black screen after the bios. Can't get any farther, and bios once showed the HDD as "not installed". I'm guessing the HDD has died? She has no backup, and the laptop came with W7 preinstalled (and associated recovery files on the disc partition). So I'm assuming they're all gone.
If it is indeed the disc, I have a spare hard drive disk salvaged from her old Lenovo which is still working (I turned it into an external hard drive for data), although it's blank.
how can I reinstall her copy of Windows 7 if we have no physical disk?
Thanks
Edit: since I have the compatible laptop hard drive already hooked up with a USB, would it be possible to download a Lenovo oem Windows 7 with the drivers and everything installed, from my other PC onto the disk, and then just slap it in the Lenovo and it'd be like a new laptop?
My wife's G580 has recently started hanging at a black screen after the bios. Can't get any farther, and bios once showed the HDD as "not installed". I'm guessing the HDD has died? She has no backup, and the laptop came with W7 preinstalled (and associated recovery files on the disc partition). So I'm assuming they're all gone.
If it is indeed the disc, I have a spare hard drive disk salvaged from her old Lenovo which is still working (I turned it into an external hard drive for data), although it's blank.
how can I reinstall her copy of Windows 7 if we have no physical disk?
Thanks
Edit: since I have the compatible laptop hard drive already hooked up with a USB, would it be possible to download a Lenovo oem Windows 7 with the drivers and everything installed, from my other PC onto the disk, and then just slap it in the Lenovo and it'd be like a new laptop?
Last edited: