-_- So I accidentally did a System Restore

So my computer just arrived yesterday from HP

I was following some of the guides here on these forums, and I accidently continued with a System Restore.

Now, when the computer turns on, after the HP screen, the screen goes black and has a blinking text line on the top left for about 15 seconds, then it loads another black screen that says 'windows is loading files' and it would take about 2 minutes to load, and then the screen would go black again, and then the normal Vista scrolling bar screen would come on.

After this, the screen would turn blue and the HP Recovery Manager would come on. It says that it will help me restore my settings back to its original factory condition (which is fine with me, since I only got the computer yesterday).

Now, it's asking me for a Factory Image Recovery. "this will format the entire hard drive and all data will be lost." I don't have any data that i'd like to save from the computer, so I don't mind.

However, I do not have a Windows Vista Recovery disk or an upgrade disk or anything like that.

So what do I do?

 

Can you get inside the Vista at all? To maybe do a Safe Mode and then select Undo last restore from the restore menu.

If you can't get in at all, then look at the HP screen when you power on and it should tell you what "F" key to press to use Recovery.

 

the recovery should be just a partition on the hard drive.

 

I think the partition Recovery for HP still ask/requires the the discs anyway. I think that's how my HP desktop recovery was. I got rid of that partition a long time ago so my memory is vague.