Got this laptop new to replace an older Lenovo Thinkpad X220. Mine is the Core i7 4500U with a 256 GB hard drive, but nothing here should be different in other versions besides drive partition sizes. It was kind of a bear to install, so I thought I'd post a write up here that might be useful to others.
Feel free to point out mistakes and improvements!
Lets start off with some background:
Hard drive comes partitioned a lot. It’s a GPT table, with...