new laptop recovery

[Seasonal]

I bought new laptop it does not came with any installation CD/DVD. I notice that it harddrive
already have 2 partition C (285 gb) and D (12.5 gb). Where as C called as loctal drive with window
and programe files in it. The drive D called recovery drive and has four folders
Boot, HP, Preloader, Recovery and System.sav.

What are they, because if i try to open i got message of warning stating
this area of drive contains file used to perform a system recovery. Do not alter or change these files.

My question is are they will stay like this? is it possible to make system installation kind of DVD?
Here is some detail about the system:

HP manufacturer:
Model Compaq Presario CQ61 Notebook PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo PC T6600 2.20 GHz 2.20 GHz
RAM 3 GB
64 bit operting system

Thanks alot.

[Seasonal]

The reason I need help is, windows has some issue and i was thinking to reinstall the window.
Btw, it has window 7.

Thanks.

[guns1inger]

The HP recovery should have been prompting you since you first started using the laptop to create recovery discs. I suspect that it did, you ticked the box saying don't remind me again, and dismissed it. There should be an application that lets you create the discs, or you can reboot the laptop and run the recovery system before windows starts.

Note : you will lose everything on the main partition, so back up first.

[jagabo]

I think you can also reinstall Windows via some keystroke at boot time.

[Poppa_Meth]

It's faster to recover directly from the partition, however you should have a Recovery Media Creator to burn discs. You can only burn them once according to HP. I'd definitely burn the discs though. Keep in mind that when you recover from HP's partition you'll unfortunately still have all the same junk software the PC started with. No such thing as a clean install from a recovery partition.

[MJA]

The HP recovery should have been prompting you since you first started using the laptop to create recovery discs. I suspect that it did, you ticked the box saying don't remind me again, and dismissed it. There should be an application that lets you create the discs, or you can reboot the laptop and run the recovery system before windows starts.

Note : you will lose everything on the main partition, so back up first.

u are 100% right about 1st start recovery .I bought an HP few years ago.1st thing it will ask u to create a backup using your DVD/CD burner (2 dvd's in my case)

if u like to order a recovery cd from HP .it's only $16 I think

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=18703&docname=c00810334

[budz]

^^^Yup, I fixed my friends HP laptop last year and had him order the recovery disc for $16.00. My friends psycho gf installed viruses in the HP games and it was on the restore discs that she created.

[fairytale00]

yeah,good infor

[Seasonal]

You are right, i think when first time we started the HP it did asked for recovery disc and my gf ( i just confirmed) asked for the drive and she selected the D.

Now my question is, she i remove the recovery files(4 of them) from drive D and try to buy recovery disc on 16 usd?
or do you think that it wont be problem if it stayed on D drive?

Please advice, thanks alot for your help.

Regards

[Seasonal]

It's faster to recover directly from the partition, however you should have a Recovery Media Creator to burn discs. You can only burn them once according to HP. I'd definitely burn the discs though. Keep in mind that when you recover from HP's partition you'll unfortunately still have all the same junk software the PC started with. No such thing as a clean install from a recovery partition.

How can i burn it? I tried to burnt before posting my issue on this forum. It has 4 files (as mentioned above) which one need to burn?
For example if i open the D drive and try to open recovery file it did not showing any option of burning, neither i notice Recovery Media Creator.

[Poppa_Meth]

The Recovery Media Creator should be in your list of program files. Mine is listed under Recovery Media Creator, not under the HP folder. It's the same program that runs when it originally prompts you to burn them. They may have changed the name of the tool now. HP is fond of doing that. My laptop is a Vista machine from shortly before Win7 came out. In your case it may be under Compaq PC Tools. If you start typing the word recovery in the search box after clicking the start button it will probably show up in the list.

[jagabo]

Do not touch the files on the D: drive. Try pressing F11 at boot time. HP's web site has explicit instructions for all of this:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=18703&docname=c...WithoutWindows

[pepegot1]

Download and install Easeus Todo Backup-it's free. Get an external HD and backup up your HD to it. When you have trouble, a virus, disc faliure, whatever, you can restore your disc to full functionality. Only a fool or an ignorant person would not have this, or something similar, on their computer. Work smart-not hard.