Recovery disk

[Jaykids]

Create second set of recovery disks, originals damaged

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You can only create recovery media one time.

You can make your own plain W7 installation media if you can read all 25 characters of the W7 product key on your notebook's case.

The product specs for your notebook indicates that it came with W7 64 bit, so download the 64 bit ISO file.

Click on the Windows ISO Downloader.exe link to download the tool to create the W7 ISO file download.

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microsoft/67-microsoft-windows-and-office-iso-downl...

I have zipped up and attached the Microsoft utility below, that will allow you to either put the file on a USB flash drive or burn it to a DVD.

Then you can install the drivers and available software you need from your PC's support page.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-dv7-Entertainment-Notebook-PC-series/40...

Recovery media is no longer available from HP.  If you want the factory recovery media, you can order it from this non-HP vendor at the link below...

http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-20012-windows-7-premium-professional-64b-recovery-kit-601549-001-f...

[WAWood]

@Jaykids

My suggestion is you consider using a third-party solution known  as Macrium Reflect (MR).
 
I prefer to use third-party recovery solutions for the following reasons:
1) More flexibility and reliabilty -- can make recovery media as often as you like, not restricted to one attempt, which if it fails, then you are stuck.
2) More media options -- can create media in DVD, USB stick, or external drive format
3) Mounting option -- can "mount" the save images as virtual "drives" and extract individual files and folders
4) WinPE boot option -- can install a special boot option that allows you to boot to recovery information and do a repair or  restore from there -- when Windows will not boot
 
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, USB stick, or DVDs
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 WinPE, 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, USB stick or DVDs in only a few minutes.
 
Good Luck