Minimized Image Recovery option still available?

I used to have an HP Mini netbook. If I needed to format the hard drive, I would use the HP Recovery Manager program. What made this program really nice is that there was an option called Minimized Image Recovery. This would format the hard hard, reinstall the operating system, a few HP maintenance programs, and the necessary drivers. Most importantly, NO "bloatware" was reinstalled. It was a truly clean format of the hard drive.
Do today's HP notebooks still offer the Minimized Image Recovery option, or has that been removed?
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I don't have one of the latest with Windows 8 but the 9 month old DV6t 7000 loaner with Windows 7 I am using has Minimized Image Recovery. I think it is a lasting feature that HP realizes a lot of owners like.
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02638587&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en#N121
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