HP Probook: Trying to do factory reset from recovery drive

Hi
I have a HP Probook 4510s I would like to do a factory recovery on. CDplayer doesnt work.
When hitting F11 it will boot into a boot manager status 0xc0000225 error.
Inside the Recovery partion there is a 7,3 GB HPFactory.wim file located at D:\system.sav\util\HPFactory.wim
I made the D: drive active in win computer management.
And got the boot manager status 0xc0000225 error every time booting
Next I installed a new win 7 from a USB.
How do I boot from the recovery drive?

Hi
he causes may be the following things.
1. The System files are corrupt.
2. The disk File system has bad configuration.
3. Hardware fault.
To boot into Windows Recovery environment, we need the recovery image or partition in your computer or the installation disk.
Try performing the Hard drive test from F2 and run the test.
Let us know how it goes!
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