I can’t help you with the recovery media, but a couple of the problems you describe were resolved with driver and firmware updates that are still available from the oem.
I'm attempting to avoid that since a lot of the installers/software tend to get delisted or just straight up don't work. I've had a ton of issues getting older machines set up and 100% fully functional and I'm worried the #1 gimmick of the machine will just straight up not work.
Since I haven't found anything yet I guess I'll image the drive just in case, and try doing a fresh install and see what all doesn't work afterwards.
You can perform the bios update via bootable media. Here are the readme and iso links.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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