Reinstall disk and Recovery Disk

Hi I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop that is preinstalled with Windows 8. Under the "Backup and Recovery Manager tool" there are two options. One to create a Reinstall disk (factory setting) and the other to create a Recovery Disk. 1. First question, are they both same? 2. I was able to successfully create the Reinstall Disk across 3 DVD's, but when I try and create the Recovery Disk it asks for an External Drive with minimum 100Gb disk space!!! It does not allow be to create a Recovery Disk on a DVD. Is this the standard behavior? Thanks ss

My Hp Recovery Media Creation Is Not Working When I delete my recovery partition Help ME

My Hp Recovery Media Creation Is Not Working When I delete my recovery partition Help ME

This is a Dell forum and not a HP forum. You need to contact HP India support to procure a Reinstallation DVD/USB:

http://www8.hp.com/in/en/contact-hp/contact.html

I am not sure on HPs policies for installation media. I think they usually ship out media identical to the factory settings which hence have all the flaws of the factory settings and don't allow clean installation:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Operating-Systems-Software-Recovery/The-Cleanest-Install-Windows-7-Recovery-Discs/td-p/394461

Tell them that you wish to have proper installation media for clean installation. If you get a proper Reinstallation DVD/USB you may follow Windows Reinstallation Guide/A Clean Install of Windows 8.1:

http://philipyip.wordpress.com/dell-community-forums/

Steps will be different in a HP compared to a Dell e.g. F12 at the BIOS screen may be different and you will have to get your drivers from HP but the installation procedure should be similar.