I just recently had to do a factory restore on an HP system (think bloatware) using the HP Recovery discs. I did the same thing last year but used a bootable USB with an .iso from MS that worked like a charm, then made a system image of that install on an external HDD. I lost the USB data and was wondering if it would be at all possible to take that system image and apply it to this new restore/re-install in hopes of ending up with a clean version of the OS without all the HP nonsense that is too numerous to mention.