How to install mountain lion with app store/or bootable drive?

My hard drive recently failed and I had to replace it. How would I got about getting mountain lion installed without the app store. I have a time machine backup but that would only be able to restore my syatem not install the OS. Any ideas on how I can get mountain lion. I only have access to PC so I can't create my own bootable drive.

Keaten wrote:
My fathers iMac unfortuneately doesn't run snow leopard..
Beware : Because the Machine now is a Leopard ( 10.5.x ) one, check the following :
If the iMac is a PowerPC one ( G4/G5 processor ) , then it can't run either Snow nor Lion, because both require an Intel processor. If that is the case, then OSX 10.5.8 is the last available and maximum OS it can run.
Snow Leopard runs on any Intel if at least 1GB Ram is present, while Lion needs a 64bit Dual Core Intel CPU ( Core2Duo or later ) and double the amount of Ram , 2GB minimum.

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