How to recovery from recovery partition D:??

Hi, this is the deal...
have a friend laptop, a Hp Pavilion G7 1279dx trying to fix some isues, such a drivers missing, notice that is windows 7 32 bit but searching for the drivers on hp website there is only for 64bit, so realize that is no the original windows from factory, try to recovery to a factory setting but there is no recovery manager in all programs menu, but the partition D: named hp recovery, is there, now the question is, can i use that partition to factory reset the laptop without the recovery manager? thanks in advanced....

willymendez wrote:
Hi, this is the deal...
have a friend laptop, a Hp Pavilion G7 1279dx trying to fix some isues, such a drivers missing, notice that is windows 7 32 bit but searching for the drivers on hp website there is only for 64bit, so realize that is no the original windows from factory, try to recovery to a factory setting but there is no recovery manager in all programs menu, but the partition D: named hp recovery, is there, now the question is, can i use that partition to factory reset the laptop without the recovery manager? thanks in advanced....
You should be able to tap the F11 key when you first power on the notebook and it will load the HP Recovery Manager. If you have problems with it loading, look through these HP troubleshooting documents for your friend's notebook.

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