Restore HP Envy to factory doesn't restore everything.

I'm having real problems restoring my laptop to factory condition. It was running HP updates and crashed, failing to boot afterwards. I held the F11 key after powering up and entered the process to restore the image but this failed with a message that restore was incomplete. Thankfully I had already made a set of 5 DVDs the day I bought the computer so I rebooted with disc one in the drive. It went all the way to the end of the restore and rebooted.
Perfect I thought. NO. Not at all. It has restored my computer with no recovery partition anymore and just 129gb allocate space on a 1TB drive. The intel rapid start now throws an error to say it isn't supported as well.
Computer is an Envy 17 Leap Motion TS SE NB PC
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Any help with this issue please. I need this laptop for my job

Hello Jswebsteve,
Welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience! To help you get the most out of the HP Forums I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More.
I understand that your notebook is running into some difficulties returning from a system recovery, and I would be happy to assist you in this endeavor!
I suggest attempting a second backup and restore, as a problem may have occurred during the re-installation process. To do this, please follow this document on Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 7) or for (Windows 8).
If the issue persists, there might be a corruption on your recovery disk. To acquire a new disk, please follow this resource on Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive.
Please re-post with the results of your troubleshooting, and I look forward to your reply!
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