Windows 7 upgrade software

I purchased a HP desktop with Vista Ultimate that qualified for the Win7 upgrade. I submitted my order and received a confirmation today that it would be shipped between October 30, and November 09. I am happy with this schedule.
However, I do have a question about the exact procedure and what is included with the upgrade software pack.
When I received my new HP desktop, the OS was corrupted and also the Factory Recovery Restore partition.
I contacted HP support and they agreed that was the issue, and suggested they ship me the Restore disk.
I received them one week later, and when I booted to the disk 1 of the 4 disk set, a new Factory Recovery Partition was created, and all the programs as originally shipped on the system. I was back with a usable system, and Factory Recovery partition that worked.
My questions is this. Does anyone know if the Win7 software pack will create the Factory Recovery partition, so if later in the life of the system, it could be restored with Win7, and all the applications that originally shipped with the system, as it would have been with Vista, or is the Win7 software pack just Win7, with no other software that originally shipped with the system?
I have been unable to find an answer to this question.
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I gave up on windows 7 upgrade. Venders for some devices have not even supplied drivers for some things yet. Very untimely and too much of a rush to windows upgrade always a problem. "If not broken don't mess with it." Someone said that awhile back and that is the best advise.

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