Accidentally wiped out windows while installing Ubuntu.

Recently I bought a laptop at Best Buy (Lenovo Ideapad N586) and used a upgrade offer to upgrade to Windows 8. Today I installed Ubuntu and intended to dual boot but I screwed up and accidentally wiped the drive during the install. The laptop did not come with any windows disks. Will I have to buy WIndows to reinstall it?
Thanks!

SoakingWetScott wrote:
Thanks, but that did not work. When I erased the Hard Drive it must have wiped the recovery partition also, When I press that button, it just boots into Ubuntu.
Hi
As the button is not working and you erased the whole hard drive, then you cannot anyhow revert to the windows 7 without the windows disk. However it is neccessary that you will have to buy disks. As you have ubuntu, you could use it to download windows 7 official iso from my digital life forums and use the product key that is found below your laptop. Link for iso is below
http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-windows-7-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-link...
You could either burn a disk of the iso or make a bootable disk/pen drive from it.
Use Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool to make a dvd/usb of iso. After installing windows then install all the drivers for windows 7, Download below
AudioDriver Operating System Released
Conexant Audio Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 8.54.34.0(Smart Audio: 6.0.134.0)(Dolby v7.2.7000.11)
Conexant Audio Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
Bluetooth and ModemDriver Operating System Released
Bluetooth Driver (Liteon, CyberTan, Foxconn) for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 7.3.0.150/6.5.1.2700
Bluetooth Driver (Liteon, CyberTan, Foxconn)
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
Camera and Card ReaderDriver Operating System Released
Camera Driver (Bison, Chicony) for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 1.12.204.1/13.11.1206.1
Camera Driver (Bison, Chicony)
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
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Realtek Card Reader Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 6.1.7601.39016
Realtek Card Reader Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
ChipsetDriver Operating System Released
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 5.12.0.13/1.0.0.72/8.944.2.1000
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
General InformationDriver Operating System Released
Hotfix for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) - Notebook ... Learn more
Version: KB2482122
Hotfix
Windows 7 32bit
15 Apr 2012
Hotfix for Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) - Notebook ... Learn more
Version: KB2482122
Hotfix
Windows 7 64-bit
15 Apr 2012
Networking: EthernetDriver Operating System Released
Realtek LAN Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586... Learn more
Version: 7.54.309.2012
Realtek LAN Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
StorageDriver Operating System Released
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 5.12.0.13/1.0.0.72/8.944.2.1000
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
TouchpadDriver Operating System Released
TouchPad Driver (Synaptics, ElanTECH, Cpress) for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 16.0.5.1/10.4.2.8/2.3.7.25
TouchPad Driver (Synaptics, ElanTECH, Cpress)
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
USB deviceDriver Operating System Released
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 5.12.0.13/1.0.0.72/8.944.2.1000
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
VideoDriver Operating System Released
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 5.12.0.13/1.0.0.72/8.944.2.1000
AMD Chipset Driver/AHCI Driver/USB 3.0 Driver/Graphics Driver
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
Wireless LANDriver Operating System Released
Wireless LAN Driver (Liteon, CyberTan) for Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Ideapad P585, N586 ... Learn more
Version: 9.2.0.458/5.100.82.112
Wireless LAN Driver (Liteon, CyberTan)
Windows 7 32bit
Windows 7 64-bit
04 Jun 2012
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