Well this one got me stumped.I have a HP pavilion 9700 laptop that is giving me some problems and any help would be awesome.I want to set it back to factory settings but i have 2 major problems. when i go into recovery MANAGER and select factory settings it acts like it is going to reboot and show me the screen for doing so,but instead it just restarts the computer and TELLS me my recovery partition is missing,even thought i can go to MY COMPUTER and see the drive d is there.wonderful i thought,so i go to get my recovery disks out and for some reason my computers cd/dvd rom is not working now eather.I have reset the drivers and it still wont work,once i pop any disk in it will spin for a few seconds then nothing.no AUTO play nothing.Is it posable to go to another computer put the recover disk info on a flash drive and set it back to factory settings like that?and if so how?Did the optical drive work before?

Have you tried booting to a CD?I still has an optical drive its just the computer wont boot from it and wont recognize it at all.I have tried booting from disk and it ignores me.i tried to make the computer boot directly from disk but that did not work.even after changing boot order.Im stumped i tried to mess with it last night and now my Ethernet port is not working right ETHER. this has turned form a 2hour job to a 3 day long ordeal.well im thinking it is all part of a motherboard issue now.my internet adapter is not working and i cant update it.And when i press the P button on my keyboard it makes a * instead.this is killing me.