System Recovery without disc windows 8.1 help please

Hello.
My computer originally came with windows 7. I upgraded to windows 8.1 professional. My computer has a partitioned hard drive with only 2 visible files, one of which is called RECOVERY. I can't make a recovery CD as I do not have an optical drive on this computer. Recovery Manager will not recognize the partition. From the F11 screen, it keeps telling me to insert media. I want to bring my computer back to the original state it was when I purchased it to start from scratch. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I've been searching and searching and keep getting nowhere.
Thank you !

Hi there
Identify your laptop model name, product number:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00033108
The Windows upgrading must have corrupted the HP recovery partition, so you might not be able to recovery from it any more.
If you haven't created recovery media to now, You have to order recovery USB (only) directly from HP in your region and use that to reinstall everything back to factory settings:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=bph07143
Perform Factory reset:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=in&lc=en&docname=c01867418
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