Can anyone help me? Asus X83V won't restore to factory???

I'm hoping someone could help me out with my laptop. I do a full restore to factory every year to keep my pc running at good health. Last week for some reason it kept booting to a blinking cursor or dash. From my son's laptop I was able to download the Vista Recovery Disk and was able to boot from that and the laptop is functioning. My issue is before this happened I only was able to see 1 drive which was my "C" drive and my "D" drive which is my DVD drive.

Now I see three drives. C,D and E. The E drive now shown under my computer is the recovery drive? Again this was never viewable before.

When I open the recovery drive I see the asus.swm and asus.swm2 files which seem to be 3 gigs each.

I tried Asus AI recovery to burn a recovery disk but it says the partition is NOT available?

I tried to boot to F9 and function/F9 and nothing happens. I even tried to restore from the vista recovery disk and it says the following it can't do the restore.

I tried running chkdsk but it says' can't find "F" parameters and reads in read only mode. It also freezes at like 83,000 out of 235,000 scanned.

Is there a way I can burn a file from my recovery folder to disk and boot to that to restore the PC to factory?

I thank anyone who can offer any tips or advice. I appreciate your help greatly.

Thanks!
Spankey

 

Quit simple, download a partition manager like, f.e. MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (free). And use this to make the Recovery Partition 'hidden' instead of visible. Now the AI recovery burner program will work again.
You can also use this program to make the recovery partition 'active' then the F9 option Windows [EMS] enabled will work to.

Thats all.