Boot disk Vista Home required after new HDD was placed!

Anyone that knows what to do now? I never received any discs with my Laptop (legal purchase). I have windows Vista Home on my laptop?
Anyone had the same problem and has it sorted? Will any boot disk download work?
Does anyone have a good tip? Thankyou.

Hello
All new Toshiba notebooks are delivered WITHOUT installations discs and you must create such disc alone using preinstalled "Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator". the shortcut of this application is placed on the desktop.
When you buy new notebook and start to use preinstalled operating system small recovery disc reminder with follow content should be shown:
*+Important INFORMATION+*
*+your system is equipped with hard disk recovery system. If you need to repair your computer by restoring it to original factory state, you can do it directly+*
*+from harddisk (press F8 when you boot your computer, choose "Repair your computer" and follow the menue instructions) or create a bootable Recovery Disc Medium for this purpose.+*
*+Toshiba recommends you to create Recovery Disc Medium using the "Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator" to ensure that you are able to restore your computer to the original factory installed state, even if your computer gets seriously damaged.+*
So please create recovery DVD using empty DVD-R medias. I presume you need 2 of them.

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