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Need Factory Restore but Formatted Recovery drive
Well then, to a point I've done something silly.
I wanted to reset my Medion Akoya E4204 D to factory settings, but also wanted to remove the MS Office partition because it is useless to me.
I do have the Medion Recovery Discs (One for Windows and one for "additional programs" so I popped that in and rebooted the PC, it took me to the Recovery and Installation screen and because I'm a bit silly and have had several months of my PC bugging the hell out of me, I went into Install and formatted all the HDD partitions from there, unfortunately including the Recover partition.
On installation I now have a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit, but none of the additional software that I had when it came new from the factory.
I put the "additional programs" disc in, rebooted, logically thinking that it would prompt me to install said additional software. Basically it didn't, instead it asked me if I wanted to Repair Windows, I tried that and after a scan it told me there were no problems and nothing missing to fix.
I am at a loss as to what to do now, as some of the additional software are drivers, some things I don't even know about but I assume they were there for a reason, and particularly Intel Rapid Store Technologies that always seemed to help run my PC a little bit faster and I don't want to have to pay for it again.
I don't want to recover any data, that is all backed up on External HDD (the one sensible thing I did), I just want a Factory Restore.
I have e-mailed Medion Tech Support with the situation, but I don't expect a rapid response and I'd really like to know what to do so that I can at least stop pulling my hair out over this.