Do the recovery discs come with an operating system?

I was given a Toshiba satellite A215-S4747 a year ago. I don't have a recovery disc and can't do a restore from the hard disc. After putting windows 7 on it, it has been nothing but problems with the drivers and such. At this point I just want it at factory default again. Since my I never had the recovery disc in the first place, I don't mind paying for one, but I need to know if I will have to purchase a Vista OS disc as well or if it will come with the requested recovery disc for my laptop. Thanks in Advance!

Howdy!
Not sure why you are having issues with the drivers, but if you go to the following link, it lists all the drives which you can sort via which version of Windows 7 (32 bit or 64 bit) you are running.
Satellite A215-S4747
Another option to keep in mind is, depending on how you installed Windows 7, you may still have the recovery partition that discs would have been made from. If so, your manual, which can be downloaded at the link I provided above, may tell you which keys to press during the boot process to access and run it.
Worse case scenario where you just buy the OEM recovery discs from Toshiba, they will include everything you need from the Windows OS, to the correct drivers, to the Toshiba extra support software. It will literally load to the state it was right out of the box. As such, no, you will not need to purchase a retail copy of Windows Vista off the shelf. The only kicker to that would be if Vista was not the originally installed OS. Easiest way to check this is to look on the bottom of the laptop where the OS sticker is with your particular serial key. Whatever it says there will be what is on the recovery disc when you receive it.
If you have any other questions or need further assist, please feel free to post here. Best of luck.

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You can order a replacement set of Recovery Discs using the link below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00810334&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
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If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
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