i restore my windows 7 notebook. to factory default

my laptop was giving me problem after a critical update, so i decided to make a system recovery and it did not go so well. so i decided to make a factory default restore. so computer went completly crazy. now it erase entire hard drive and im only left with recovery partition which it doesnt work because its askin me to insert cd for repairs. the only screen i get is window error restore . and if i click on start windows normally it starts setup is starting services and it doesnt move from there. please help. whats the best thing i can do ?

please help

if u have any recovery cd's use those. if not i would just reinstall windows

thats the problem i dont have no cd what so ever

What is the brand of the laptop you're using?

gateway notebook 10 inch

Hello,

Are you able to create recovery CDs? http://support.gateway.com/s/SOFTWARE/Medialess/MLXPMC0/MLXPMC0su11.shtml