Cannot restore the factory settings on Pavilion dm3

After the use of the laptop for about two years now and accumulated quite a waste, I tried to do a restore to factory setting.  When I bought it, I also bought two recovery system DVD - never used or tried before.

Fact by following the instructions; Insert the first disc (later tried both without success) in the external optical drive, which recognized the drive but do nothing outside to show me the content.  It there is no setup.exe and the disc is no not no matter what autorun.

The computer works fine, just a bit slow, especially when you turn it on, so I don't want to plant it, but I don't want to clean it up.

Would appreciate any advice,

Thank you

Paul_Tikkanen wrote:

Hello:

You do not have the Windows Recovery discs.

You must boot from the first floppy and follow the instructions on the screen.

The best way to do that is to insert disk 1 into the DVD drive, reboot the laptop.

At the beginning of the HP welcome screen, press the F9 key to start the start time menu.

Select the DVD drive, and then press the Enter key.

The PC should then attempt to boot from the DVD.  A message may appear on the screen that says basically «try to boot from DVD...» Press any key to boot from the DVD... »

Press a button and the PC should then read the DVD, and you can follow the instructions on the screen.

After the PC is done with disc 1, it will be ejected and invites you to remove disk 1 and insert disk 2.

Based on the key F9 does not launch the only time where Start menu, and then press the ESC key and then select the options menu start.

THANKS A MILLION!  Worked perfectly and absolutely right.  I didn't know the F9 option.

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