Restoring factory image of HP Laptop

Question

I use a HP G62. I am unable to use my recovery disk to restore to factory settings. I had no problems earlier until I created an additional partition which I hear might have changed my hard disk to dynamic.

How do I get back to 'normal'? I don't mind formatting the disk. I just want my factory OS back.

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i get an error message at about 69 percent telling me that the restoration process failed. I'm using the factory image disks i created using the hp recovery manager. I have tried formating the hard drive clean and then restoring woth the cd, it didn't work. I was always able to restore before i created that partition.

Answer 1

I got the same problem on my desktop, while browsing my old ghost backup I saw a .gho image file which was hidden on the harddisk.I loaded a fresh copy with that .gho image file.You can try to find (if exists) it.If it works do not forget to get a fresh Ghost Image for your own recovery solutions...

Answer 2

Use DBAN to nuke the hard disk, then use the recovery discs to restore it.

http://www.dban.org/

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If it is Windows 7 and you are using HP branded recovery discs, see this page, you may need to make and run this disc first after you nuke the drive, then use the HP branded recovery discs, if they are discs you made on the PC yourself, then this does not apply to you.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-80183-1&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en