HP Recovery program does not list my laptop

[GlennMc77]

I need to make an HP recovery disk on a USB drive but the cloud recovery program does not list my laptop and it is still under warranty. What I am trying to do is create a full working HP recovery USB Disk with all the HP drivers like the computer came with when it was new. I talked to HP tech support, and they could not help because their side was having problems, and they could not get to the proper tools to help create this USB disk on the phone. Is there any other model laptop in the cloud recovery program that I can use that has the same drivers and setup as my laptop has.

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@GlennMc77 

You can do much the same -- even better -- by reading the material below:

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I personally prefer to use third-party Backup solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.

Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.