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‎04-14-2016 10:08 PM

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Product: HP Envy 23 All-in-one w/ touch
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

My HD crashed and I have replaced it. I also found a USB thumb drive installed inside the drive/memory bay (an internal USB port with a 16GB thumb drive plugged it). I had hoped this was a bootable recovery drive but I can't seem to get it to boot. What is this thumb drive for? Is it a recovery drive and I'm just don't know how to boot from it?

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