Scrubbing Reloading the System from Scratch

Hello,  I am dealing with an HP laptop, model # dm4-3055dx, running Windows 7.  The system recently contracted a virus or some sort of very annoying malware referred to as Qone8.  I have tried numerous suggested solutions and several antivirus programs but I have not been able to get rid of it.  I am now at the point of having no other choice but to scrub the system (reformat the hard drive) and reloading every thing from source disks.  What I would like to know is will the recovery disks that I can get from HP (I unfortunately did not make these recovery disks myself when the system was new) be all that I need to accomplish this task?  Do the disks contain the original OS software and all the drivers, etc. that will get my system back to it's out of the box operationg condition?  If this is so, I assume that I will then have to download system updates from Microsoft and/or HP to get up to date.  I  plan on ordering the recovery disks for my system I just want to make sure there is nothing else I will need.  Also, I would appreciate a reference to the written procedure for carrying out the scrub and reload process if anyone knows.  Thanks much,  Al

Thanks much for your response Mista B.  Actually I was unaware that there was a built-in recovery process available.  I may try that.  When I read the referenced procedure it said that if this procedure didn't work for some reason that I would have to use the recovery disks so I should probably have these on hand just in case.  The thing that I am afraid of is that if I don't do a complete erasure of the hard drive that the virus might not be eradicated completely and it will show up again on my bootup re-loaded system.  Do you think that the internal recovery procedure will successfully wipe out the infection?  Not to belabor the issue but you did not actually answer my question directly.  What I wanted to know is if the HP recovery disks will be all that I need to reload a completely wiped computer system.  Pehaps you implied that by suggesting the recovery from boot up but that is still not completely clear to me.  I do appreciate you help.  Thanks again, Al

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