Envy TouchSmart m6-k025dx Sleekbook Win 8 recovery with totally messed up hard drive?

I made a recovery flash drive when I first got my Envy. Now, after totally messing up the hard drive and being unable to recover Windows 8 (not 8.1) with the flash drive, I've reformatted the drive and loaded the Windows 10 Tech Preview (which seems to be working quite well). However, Tech Previews don't last forever, and I'd really like to get back Win 8. I still have the recovery flash drive, but there's obviously a problem with the recovery image.
Does anyone know if a generic recovery image is available anywhere?
TIA

Hi there @RockDoctor,
and welcome to the HP Support Forums!
Since you say that your recovery media is not good, you can always try to get it direct from HP.
Obtaining HP Recovery Discs or an HP USB Recovery Drive
Also you can look at this if you have not removed the HP_tools partition:
Performing an HP System Recovery (Windows 8)
Troubleshooting HP System Recovery Problems (Windows 8)
Creating a Recovery Image on Discs or Saving a Recovery Image to a USB Flash Drive (Windows 8)
I hope that this helps.
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