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The laptop was dying, I copied the HDDRecovery partition to a spare drive, and again to a new drive, using Partition Magician. The laptop is a C655E-S5041 under WIN 7. Now the original drive is dead. The new drive is in the laptop, but will not boot, displaying instead, "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key".
I have access to a Repair Disk an early System Image, but not for another month. Plus I sense they may be futile resources since the new drive is not identical, and the Repair Disk could not cope with the original dying hard drive.
My Question is: how do I get this computer back to factory defaults with minimal effort? I am very grateful for any help offered.
Thanks,
kimo

Thank you for your reply, Jerry. Yes, I mananged to find the driver for the network adapter, which got me connected. Windows Update has taken over, and nearly done with 178 updates. I can't help but notice that the generic windows install created a third partition, System Reserved (primary).
I checked out he recovery media early on, and it priced at $30 which is not too bad. I do have a System Image disks, created shortly after purchase, but they won't be in my physical possesion for another 4 weeks. All this fussing around is helping to verify that only the hard drive had failed, there was no other hardware failures that might cause me to scrap the unit.
Under these circumstances, I'm likely to wait until the System Image disks show up, and hope they restore the HDDRecover partition to its full utility. If there was a shortcut to evoke the HDDRecover to perform its factory restore, I would be ready to try it.
What tempts me, is to try to get a dos prompt before control is passed to the main partition, and see if the boot menu can be evoked, with the return to the 'out of the box' state option active. Its a long shot, but I have some time to kill before the System Image disks show up.
If anyone has some thoughts about how to get the restore factory state option to show up on any menu, I would be happy to try it and report back.
Thanks again, Jerry.

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