Problem solved, HP has there own clean install program so I used it without a problem. So I have my Windows 7 back. But I was starting to like Windows 8. Thanks for the help folks
Here is what I found over at Microsoft
No. To go back to your previous version of Windows, you'll need to reinstall it from the recovery or installation media that came with your PC; typically DVD media. If you don’t have recovery media you might be able to create it from a recovery...
I did my Windows 8 installation wrong so it is not dual booting, it has intergrated into Windows 7. And my recovery/installation is on a partition on the hard drive. I need to do a custom install but Windows 8 seems to have made this harder. What are the steps that I should take to get my...
Well all I see is system restore in Windows 8. I am trying to get back to Windows 7 restore. Windows 8 is not letting me get there. Windows 8's restore point is not going to take me there.
I installed the consumer version of Windows 8, and after playing around with it, I decided to remove it. So I installed Easy BCD and com e to find out Windows 8 did not install on a separate partition. So in other words it is not dual booting. So I might have to clean install my Windows 7...