Recovery Disk (D:) is disabled

Greetings,
I'm in need of some assistance with a problem on a Recovery Disk D: Drive.
Using HP Recovery Manager, I have been trying to do a system recovery on a laptop to restore it back to factory settings; however, it says that the Recovery Disk D: drive is disabled. I successfully did a factory restore just using only a windows 7 install disk, but the Recovery Disk D: drive remains disabled. I would like to reset the laptop manually, with all the pre-programs that came installed on it, but first I need to fix this issue in order to do so .
Please help me,
The laptop model is a HP Pavilion g6 with a Windows 7 64-bit system.
Thank you.

If you did not burn a Recovery Disc set using HP Recovery Manager, you will need to contact HP Support to order a set. You can usually order online from your model's support page if you are in the US or Canada.
Worldwide contact info for HP Support can be accessed here>>Contact HP
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