will g62 recovery from dvd restore partitions to factory settings?

[ptnewman]

I recently purchased a g62 laptop and immediately created the recovery disks - 3 dvds.

i then shrunk the C partition and added a new "data" partition, but what i didnt realize is that in the process i converted the disks to type "dynamic".  this happened because there where already 4 partitions and i added a 5th.  I am not sure that i want to use dynamic disks at this time, I use ghost to backup partitions and dont know if it will work properly.

So now i wonder, if i use the recovery disks that i created, will it refresh the laptop to factory settings including the original partitions types and sizes?

thanks!

[Mumbodog]

Great question, I would like to know also. I just bought the same model.

I made a full disk image of my hard drive before I booted it for the first time, so I have a virgin copy of the entire drive.

I do this for every system when I buy it, first thing I do is remove the hard drive and connect it to another PC using a USB adapter and image the drive using Acronis.

[ptnewman]

I restored last night and my laptop was put back to its factory settings - exactly.  All the partitions were recreated.  now my question is which of the partitions i can drop so i can create one of my own.

[Mumbodog]

Here are what the partitions are

1.  Windows Recovery Environment (Hidden from explorer but not disk management)  200mb

2. Operating System

3. HP recovery partition 12+ gb

4. HP diagnostics  103mb

The only one worth recovering space for is #3, the only down side for removing this is if you need to recover and the recovery discs are damaged somehow then you cannot recover your PC at all.

I would make ISO files of the recovery DVDs, this way if a disc goes bad, you can burn another one. Store the iso files on another hard drive.

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/231-make-an-iso-image

[Mumbodog]

I just upgraded my G62 with a new larger blank hard drive, used the recovery disks to reinstall, it put all 4 partitions back just like they were on the original hard drive. Be sure to enable the wireless before starting the install process, use Alt + F12 to do this, the light on the F12 key should be green.

The entire process of reinstalling from recovery disks took about 1hr 15 minutes.

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[therealparsnip]

Ok, 

I burnt the recovery dvds * 4, on the g62-a01sa

I used them, as above the process took about 75mins, 

On reboot, the laptop could not find a bootable system.

I have also had the same problem with the toshiba cq62, a very similar laptop.

Luckily i have a windows 7 64bit install disc, so installed that.

As anyone else had the same problem, or know what the error was caused by?

[Mumbodog]

What was the exact error message?

[therealparsnip]

Im not sure of the exact message, but its the one line message that comes up when no bootable drive/cd is found, and the systems asks you to insert boot device and press any key.

[Mumbodog]

All I can suggest is to try the restore again.

[therealparsnip]

Yes i suppose.

To be honest though, i prefer my laptop as it is with a vanilla install of windows 7 which i can mod how i want it, avoiding all the crap bundled software, which i dont need.