HP Recovery Manager is a tool that helps you retrieve your digital information and secure your backups on any Windows 7-running HP laptop. The program lets you factory-reset your system during times when your operating system becomes unresponsive or starts to behave oddly. Such behavior could be due to a hardware failure, driver conflict, or virus infection. Whatever the cause, HP Recovery Manager can perform a restoration and take your laptop to how it originally was. If you are going to restore your HP laptop, make sure you disconnect USB devices and other hardware components, such as graphics cards or hard drives.