8460P with no partition recovery or recovery manager - how to recover?

Hi all

I have a P-8460 that I want to return to the factory settings, but it does not have a recovery partition and I can't find any sign of Recovery Manager. However, I have the recovery disks initial (a Windows HP disc and a diskette of drivers and applications).

I booted from the Windows disk but it begins to reinstall Windows and all the documentation I've seen leads me to believe that it should load up Recovery Manager. Is this true or do I go through the process of reinstalling Windows first?

Finally, I cannot find any mention of Recovery Manager on the application disc, is installed elsewhere?

Ideally, I want a factory fresh install with a recovery partition and the recovery manager installed.

Can someone give me points?

Was there ever a recovery partition?

Much of class notebooks HP business have not a partition recovery or recovery manager, only the disks to use.

See this page for your recovery procedure

http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&TaskID=110&prodSeriesId=5056942&prodTypeId=321957&ObjectID=c00006110

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