How to Use OneKey Recovery for Laptops

Introduction

Laptops have a way of failing at the most inopportune times. Maybe you dropped it and cracked the screen, or maybe your hard drive is making a grinding sound and you're afraid you're about to lose all your data. Whatever the problem, there's an easy solution: system backup and restore. You can back up your laptop with OneKey Recovery for Laptops, which is preinstalled on Lenovo laptops. If your computer crashes, you can use OneKey Recovery to bring it back from the dead—and this article will show you how!

Use OneKey Recovery for Laptops

You can use OneKey Recovery to restore your laptop if you have an issue with it. For example, if you are having trouble booting into Windows and want to recover your system, you can do so by pressing a key combination.

In addition to this, OneKey Recovery allows you to perform a backup of your data as well as restore it in the event that something goes wrong with the computer or if there is data loss due to viruses or other issues. It's also possible for users who accidentally delete files they don't mean to remove them permanently from their computers using this software!

You'll be able to restore all kinds of information including personal files like photos and videos; documents created in Microsoft Office applications such as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets; email messages from Outlook; music files stored locally on your laptop's hard drive; even saved games played using Steam games downloaded from Valve Corporation (a video game developer based out of Bellevue).

Perform a full system backup with OneKey Recovery for Laptops

• Connect the USB drive to your laptop and then reboot your system.

• As soon as you see the OneKey Recovery interface on boot, press F10 (or wait for three seconds) to enter it immediately.

• Click "Create" and select the location where you want to save your backup image file (for example, C:\backup). The default name of this file is "[Device Name]_[Backup Date].image", where "Device Name" refers to your computer's model number and "Backup Date" denotes when it was created.* Click Next when finished selecting a location—this will open another window asking whether or not you'd like to encrypt this backup with a password; select Yes if so (you'll be prompted for an encryption password), otherwise select No because this process takes longer than normal.* Click Finish when finished creating/encrypting your backup image file; then click Exit one last time before shutting down your laptop normally.* Note that if any changes are made between now and when next backing up via OneKey Recovery for Laptops, those changes will be lost due to how incremental backups work.* For example: If during our first session we selected a folder called "My Documents" as our destination but after reading some helpful tips decided instead on saving all files into an external hard drive named "External HD", we would need  to boot back into OneKey Recovery again while plugged into

Recover from a custom backup with OneKey Recovery for Laptops

OneKey Recovery for Laptops allows you to recover your system from a backup that you've created. You can use it if:

• You've accidentally deleted some files, or installed malware and are in need of a clean slate.

• Your laptop has been stolen, lost or damaged beyond repair.

To get started, first make sure that all of the USB devices have been disconnected except for the USB recovery drive itself (and any external hard drives). Then boot up the computer using this one USB device as its only way to access the operating system. This will bring up an option menu with several different recovery options. If there is no option menu, just select "boot from USB" on a Mac or "boot legacy" on Windows 10 computers when prompted which should allow OneKey Recovery Mode to start automatically after booting up successfully into Windows 10 again (if not then click on ‘Startup Repair’ button).

Recover from the recovery partition with OneKey Recovery for Laptops

If you are not able to boot from the hard drive, you can use the recovery partition to restore your laptop to its factory settings. If you want to try this method first, make sure that your laptop is plugged in and turned on before starting OneKey Recovery for Laptops.

To restore your laptop using OneKey Recovery for Laptops:

• Start with a fully charged battery, connected AC adapter and a blank DVD-R/RW disc inserted into the optical drive.

• Press F10 during startup (if key does not work then press Esc repeatedly until “Boot Menu” appears). Select "Boot from CD/DVD ROM Drive" or use arrow keys if it doesn't appear automatically.

• The system will start loading files from diskette drive 0 (or diskette drive 1), which is where Windows 7/8 writes instructions when it installs itself onto new hardware after purchase; these instructions include instructions on how to run OneKey Rescue Mode automatically when needed later on down road when something goes wrong with hardware like CPU fan stops working properly.* When prompted by System Recovery Options window click Next button twice then select Command Prompt option under Troubleshoot options column in blue color (third one) then click Next button again until command prompt window comes up on screen showing following line: C:\Program Files\Lenovo\OneKey Rescue System v2>

1. Boot your laptop until the system enters the main interface.

• Boot your laptop until the system enters the main interface.

This is the first time you have booted your laptop since you installed OneKey Recovery, so it will ask for some information about your computer and then begin to backup your data.

If this isn't the first time using OneKey Recovery on this device (for example, if you just reinstalled Windows) or if you have previously configured a different type of recovery image in File History), then skip ahead to step 2 below.

2. Click "Create".

• Click "Create".

You can select the location where you would like to save your backup, or it will be created in the default location (C:\OneKeyBackup). When ready, click Next > Finish.

3. Select an output location, and then click "Next" to save the image file to this location.

• Select an output location, and then click "Next" to save the image file to this location.

You can choose an external hard drive or USB flash drive that's connected to your computer. You'll see a status bar while the drive is being prepared for saving the image file. When it's ready, you'll see a confirmation message that says, "The backup process was successful."

Make sure that the destination drive has enough space available so that it can hold all data on your laptop.

4. When the system finishes backing up, click "Finish" to exit. The following picture shows how to perform a full system backup using OneKey Recovery for Windows 10 (64-bit).

The following picture shows how to perform a full system backup using OneKey Recovery for Windows 10 (64-bit).

After you click "Restore," the system will automatically restart and begin restoring. When the restoration is finished, it will prompt you to choose one of three options: "Restart" and return to your previous settings; "Power Off" so that you can continue with the recovery process later; or "Exit." If you choose to restart, your previous settings will be restored over top of any new changes made since performing the restore. If you choose Power Off and then go back into OneKey Recovery again, all user files and application settings that were backed up before starting this process will remain intact except for those areas where users had modified them since performing the restore.

2. Click "Recover from initial backup" or "Recover from non-initial backup". For example, if you select Recover from initial backup, your laptop will be restored to its factory settings as when you first bought it, not including any files you have added subsequently. If you select Recover from non-initial backup, you will be prompted to choose a restore point from among any custom backups that have been made subsequently in order to restore your laptop to its conditions at that point in time (including files you have added subsequently).

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Conclusion

After reading this article, you should be able to backup and restore your Lenovo laptop using the utility program OneKey Recovery.