As I said, I've done this before, so the fact that this is not working is beyond frustrating.
Needless to say, I can't get it to run the recovery. I think this may have to do with me uninstalling Nero, which associated this particular. Just to be sure, I popped in Recovery disk 1, but unfortunately, it won't autorun and I can't make it run, because for some reason my laptop can no longer read the. As with the instructions provided, I popped in my System disk first and it begins install, but before it asks to insert Recovery disk 1, it does says 'recovery finished', boots up and installs additional components. Now, I have four disks, one is System, and the others are Recovery 1, 2 and 3. I've done a system recovery to factory defaults once before, so that may have something to do with it.