Lenovo Diagnostics - Bootable USB is a diagnostic tool that can be booted itself and tests the memory and hard drives in Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation and ThinkServer.

Note: The USB diagnostic tool has to be created on a Linux system first, and only then it can be used on a Lenovo computer regardless of what Operating System the system has once it is created.

• ThinkCentre
  • Edge 71, Edge 71z, Edge 91, Edge91z, Edge 92
  • M60e, M71e, M71z, M75e, M76, M77, M81, M82, M90z, M91, M91p, M92z, M92
• ThinkStation
  • C20, C20x
  • D20
  • E30
  • S20
• ThinkPad
  • Edge E120, E125, E130, E220s, E320, E325, E330, E420, E425, E430, E435, E520, E525, E530, E535, S430
  • L420, L520
  • S220, S420
  • T420s, T430s, T420, T430, T520, T530
  • W520, W530
  • X1, X121e, X130e, X131e, X220, X220 Tablet, X230, X230 Tablet
• Lenovo Essential
  • B480, B580
  • V480, V480s
  • K29, K49, E49
• IdeaPad
  • G480, G485, G580, G585, G780

• All Operating Systems - Self Bootable

Note: It must be created on a Linux Operating System below:

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.x
• SUSE Server 11
• Ubuntu 11.04

1. Click the file links to download the files from the Web page.
2. When prompted, select a drive and directory in which to save the downloaded files.

1. Please use a Linux system to prepare the bootable usb key.
   Unzip linux-bootable-usb-15.tar.gz ("path" is where the package is)
   cp "path"/linux-bootable-usb-15.tar.gz /tmp/
   cd /tmp
   tar -zxf linux-bootable-usb-15.tar.gz
2. Log on console as root:
   sudo su (Ubuntu)
   su- (Redhat/Suse)
3. Plug the USB key on machine
4. Execute bootable script:
   # cd /tmp/bootable
   # ./CreateBootable.sh
5. If no dependency is found, then the user is prompted to install them
6. Choose which device to create the bootable Linux from the menu. Please choose the USB key you plugged in to create bootable linux.
7. A confirmation will be asked if you really like to format the USB key.
   Note: All data will be lost if the USB key is formated.
8. Then, the creation process will start. Do not remove the USB key during this process. The system will finally show successful information and ask to press any key.
9. Continue by pressing any key and then you can remove the USB key from the machine.
10. Please boot the system with the USB key to start diagnostics.

• SATA Controller Mode needs to be set to AHCI in system BIOS if the system doesn't use UEFI BIOS

• For any open source code used in generating this application, you can download it at
  http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=HT073284