Drive failure, how to reinstall on new drive

Hi, I have an Envy TouchSmart 15 which seems to have a bad drive (short DST check fail RGDUHF-71G7JL-MFGJWK-60UJ03) and while I can boot up Windows and log in, from that point onwards I cannot do anything except move the mouse pointer. I cannot launch the recovery program to create a recover disc from this and the boot-time repair/restore options all hang. I've also run chkdsk on its drive when connected to a second computer (in a USB cage) and chkdsk reports no issues.
So, I have bought a new drive and I'm wondering how to get Windows 8 on it. I also have a second, identical HP Envy which works fine and am wondering if I can create a recovery USB thumb drive from that 2nd machine, boot the 1st machine from that thumb drive and reinstall it from scratch but I am under the impression that the recovery media can only attempt to recover a drive that is already installed, but it will not do a full reinstall.
Is the only option here to buy the media from HP at $50? If so, does it come on USB because I do not have a DVD drive.
Thanks.
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One additional comment: despite the fact that I had gone from a 750GB drive to a 1TB drive, the recovery procedure partitioned the new drive in an odd way. It left me with only 130GB for the primary boot partition (C: drive with Windows) and left 800GB as unallocated space at the end of the drive. Between the C: partition and the large, unallocated space there was a recovery partition so I had to use EaseUS (Partition Master Free) to swap the recovery & unallocated partitions and then merge the C: and unallocated partitions so that I now have a 930GB C: drive.
BTW I now realize that I should have posted this thread in the 'Recovery' rather than 'Lockups/Freezes' forum so if an admin wants to move it there, that's great.

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