Lenovo laptop advanced boot menu (f8 doesnt work)

[Aerosky]

Im trying to restore my laptop to its factory settings by trying to access its advanced boot menu. however i cant seem to get into it.
I have tried f8 as well as fn + f8 and it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas?

 

[SchizTech]

What's the model number? I've seen Lenovo laptops which had their own dedicated key for special startup options (a smaller key next to the power button)

 

[Aerosky]

I have a Lenovo G50-80. it does have a onekey recovery button next to the power, but advanced boot menu option is not there.

There is a recovery option available. once in it says initial back up. not sure if its a factory reset or a image made after all the extra content was installed

 

[3hunna]

You cannot access advanced boot menu because it's disabled in Windows 8/8.1 you can manually activate it though

 

[SchizTech]

I don't see such a button on pics of a G50. Is the laptop booting now? If you can get into Windows the Reset function should have the effect of a factory reset.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc

 

[3hunna]

1. Enable the LKG feature:
under the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager\LastKnownGood create a DWORD value "Enabled" and set it to 1

2. Configure how many copies of ControlSet can be created, 2 is enough.
under the key HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager\ create a DWORD value "BackupCount" and set it to 2.

3. (Optionally) Configure the boot manager to display the old-style text boot menu.
You can do this by editing the BCD store using the following command:
BCDEdit /SET "{bootmgr}" displaybootmenu yes

4. Enable the legacy F8 menu in the Boot manager:
BCDEdit /SET "{Current}" BootMenuPolicy Legacy

You are done!

 

[SchizTech]

I have a Lenovo G50-80. it does have a onekey recovery button next to the power, but advanced boot menu option is not there.

There is a recovery option available. once in it says initial back up. not sure if its a factory reset or a image made after all the extra content was installed

Ok, so the pic I saw doesn't represent yours. To answer the question, if no other option is present the default recovery option is the factory image.