ASUS X73S partition recovery issue

Hello,

2-3 weeks ago i had bought an ASUS Notebook X73S.
Specs:
i5 processor
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
8 RAM
Nvidia Geforce 610M 1gb

I have the habit to do a fresh install on every system that i buy so i did it with this notebook, but then i found out that the graphic driver from the manufacturer's site won't detect the graphic card so i was forced to use intel's driver ending up with bad fps rate playing simple games like Minecraft. Now its not a big deal cuz i bought the laptop for programming purposes but i like to have it up to date and with the correct drivers to use it at its optimal performance/usage.

The only way to get the manufacturer's factory setting, i assume, is using the Partition called RECOVERY:



I looked up how to access it, use it and that was by pressing F9 at bootup.
So i did but the only thing that show up is a "Windows 7" Selection which just normally boots Windows. I tried the "Repair my computer" way by F8 but that selection doesn't show up.
I'm out of ideas, can anyone help?

 

Its been a week and no help...
Have i missed any details i should mention? :S

 

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- - select model - OS - ... Utilities and download AI recovery. This should allow you to create DVD's that will facilitate recovery of the OS to factory state.
I generally recommend a full out of box image to an external HDD as an alternate way to recover. Asus recovery is not 100% reliable (as you have found out).
I believe the recovery partition needs to be first on on the disk & hidden for it to function via F9.

 

Ok i'll try the first option.
But how do i do the out of the box image process you mentioned?

 

^^ type backup in search bar - create system image.
Or install Paragon 12 backup .. then create an image to an external drive once your system is running properly