What is the function of hard drive recovery?

Updated from XP to 7 Home Premium and find a record 14.6 GB is only currently 9.6 GB free. What is function of this drive?

A recovery disk drive is installed by major computer manufacturers (by example, Acer, Dell, Gateway, HP, etc.) and contains the information necessary to return the hard drive from the original computer to its factory configuration.  For example, if you were to read the Guide to the user supplied with your PC and your PC originally came with Windows Vista preinstalled at the factory, the user's Guide would teach you how to use the recovery disk to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows Vista. Carey Frisch

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    If you want to send comments about how easy it was for you to mess up your system, you can use the Web page of apple.com/feedback for do.

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    Let me welcome you on the HP forums!

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  • Satellite L500-1XL: catering on the day of the purchase using HARD drive recovery

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  • Satellite L500-F19 is started due to failed HARD drive recovery process

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    Hello

    > But now when I run my program of recovery of HARD drive
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    Hello

    This does not work because you have installed Win 7 64 bit as you said here:
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