How to make a Hewlett-Packard Restore and Recovery cd?

[techs]

I know these are two different things. The Restore cd accesses the hidden partition and the Recovery cd's are the complete tool to set everything up on a completely wiped hard drive. The customer is limping along in Windows xp. The hidden partition seems intact. HP says there is a way to make these CD's from within Windows but three different tech support people said they didn't know how. Does anyone know how out there?
Please help
thanks

[geoscomp]

To the best of my knowledge..HP has never released that info..to start the restore process from the recovery partition, all you have to do is to hit ctrl/f10 before you boot the system..and keep holding it till the process starts. Any HP owner can order a recovery cd from HP for just the cost of shipping..instructions are in the paper documentation that came with the computer

[techs]

To the best of my knowledge..HP has never released that info..to start the restore process from the recovery partition, all you have to do is to hit ctrl/f10 before you boot the system..and keep holding it till the process starts. Any HP owner can order a recovery cd from HP for just the cost of shipping..instructions are in the paper documentation that came with the computer

Thanks for that ctrl/f10 tip. Since the recovery partition seems to be intact I a can try that. I still don't know why HP keeps saying you can burn your own recovery disk?

[Shard92]

Thanks for that ctrl/f10 tip. Since the recovery partition seems to be intact I a can try that. I still don't know why HP keeps saying you can burn your own recovery disk?

We recently took in a new hp on trade. Not long after redoing it... it asked if I wanted to make those disks... I said no not at that time and it hasn't come back and i don't know where to go to make it do it either...

[techs]

We recently took in a new hp on trade. Not long after redoing it... it asked if I wanted to make those disks... I said no not at that time and it hasn't come back and i don't know where to go to make it do it either...

Thanks for reminding me. I saw that prompt to make the disks myself a while back. I did what you did. Skipped over it and never found it again.