Factory reset on HP Pavilion 17-f078no to windows 8.1

I have a HP Pavilion 17-f078no with W8.1 pre installed. I installed windows 7 on it from a W7 DVD on c-drive (wiped the c-drive partition). I did not touch the other partitions.
If I want to get back to W8.1 (as from factory), how do I get back to factory status?
Since I did not touch the other partitions I presumed I could reinstall facotry setup from the other partitions. But when I press F11 and go to factory recovery I have to choose Windows 7 (W8.1 is not prsent as a choise) and then it ask if I want to reset to factory setup. But factory setup is W8.1! I did not make any discs before installation of W7 since I did not touch the recovery partitions.

Dear Customer,
Welcome to HP Support Forum and we are glad to assist you.
It looks like you are not able to Boot into the Operating System on your Notebook.
We will surely assist you with this.
Originally the Notebook will have the Recovery Partition and that would give you an option to create a set of Recovery Disk. If you have not created those Recovery Disks when the Notebook was in working condition we cannot do that right now
As of now if you need to recover your Notebook with the new Operating System you can check if the Recovery Partition
is in a working condition or not, If yes you can easily recover/restore your Notebook
If Recovery Partition is corrupted or not available
You need to call HP Technical Support and request for a set of Recovery Disks , So you can recover/restore your Notebook at the earliest
OR
You need call up Microsoft and purchase an Operating System with the License Key, So you can recover/restore your Notebook at the earliest
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