Booting into recovery endlessly

Hi everyone, in a pickle. HP 6v1323 laptop needed reformatting so went ahead and used recovery. After several hours it told me it failed! As l had set the recovery partition to boot first to get it to work, l am now locked into this eternal loop l cant get out of. Each time l reboot, it goes straight to recovery. Have tried recovery several times. No recovery disks but know l can get some. Would they work? Any way to get it to boot back to ordinary drive? Thanks in advance :-)

Problem fixed! Went into bios and reset to default setup and also ran the drive check (don't know official name :-)) Altered boot sequence too. Still booted into recovery so l decided to run it one last time and it worked. Yah.... Happy, happy....and probably very lucky. Will be making recovery disks NOW.

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