Make use of recovery disc and new 7 install

Hello,

I have an HP DV3510nr laptop which has a 10gb recovery disc in addition to the 300gb hard drive. The computer came with Vista and a "System Recovery" program that allowed me to reset the computer to its original state, from this recovery disc, which I had to do several times. I have since upgraded to Win7 and did nothing with the secondary drive. The upgrade seems to have wiped any system recovery abilities.

I am now needing to reinstall Win7 and was wondering how I can set up this recovery disc, with Win7, for system restore.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
Dean

richc46 said:

Welcome

The problem arises from the fact that you did an upgrade and not a clean install. I will get you our tutorial on how to do a clean install with an upgrade DVD. You will be so happy with the improvement.

Thanks you for the response. I actually did do a clean install. I am a little anal and didn't want any of the bad voodoo that had bogged down Vista laying around.

Does this mean my recovery disc has a copy of that clean install? If so how do I restore to that point. The Windows restore program only allows me to go back to the end of December. I got Win 7 in October, October 22 to be exact. I would like to start over. I can no longer print from this machine, and my wireless mouse no longer works. Plus it is horribly slow.

Thanks again,
Dean

richc46 said:

Here is our exceptional tutorial on how to make the repair. So with the DVD, you can install the OS, again or make a repair. If you do a clean install (not custom and not upgrade), everything will be perfect.

Repair Install[2]=General Tips

Thanks again for the quick response. What I am hoping to do is load Win 7 onto my Recovery Disc so I can just hit a "System Recovery" button and go back to new. I was able to do this when it had Vista. The "Sytem Restore", which takes me back to a certain time, utility remained in Win 7 but the "System Recover", which uses that second 10gb drive to take me back to a factory state, is no longer available as far as I can tell.

wallyinnc said:

Dean, when you get it repaired, you might want to create an image of your system, so the next time you can restore everything. Take a look at these tutorials, they offer many options how to backup: Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums[2]=Backup%20Restore

Thanks,

How do I do this on that second drive? My system is not allowing me access to that drive.

I have two external hard drives that I use for backup but I would like to make use of the second drive in my laptop.

Windows Explorer says the following when I try to acess the drive:

"Recovery Partition
Warning!

This area of your hard drive
(or partition) contains files used
for your PC Recovery.

Do not delete or alter these files.

Any change to this partition could
prevent any recovery later."

The date on the file on this drive/partition says last date modified is 10.22.2009 which leads me to believe it holds my clean install. I just don't know how to access it.

So, how do I get to that.

Thanks again,
Dean