HP Pavilion - Do I need external Recovery option?

Hi,
I have just bought a HP Pavilion 15. Keep getting contractdictory advice. Some say must have an external Recovery option; others say why, there is no need and it is a lot of hassle to create a set. Need advice:
1) is it really necessary to have an external option when I have the recovery partition (D) on the hard drive?
2) If I need an external option (however hard that may be to create), am thinking about buying Panasonic DVD-RAM Disc Rewritable 9.4GB. Is this appropriate media? And, how do I work out how many discs I need to buy?
3) absolute worse case secenario - if I needed to recover & didn't have an external recovery media, what would be my other options?
Unfortunately, know enough knowlegde/experince to worry but not enough to know what to do. Can anyone help?
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To the best of my knowledge, HP allows driver downloads regardless of warranty status.. About the only time you will ever have an issue is if you are trying to put an OS on a machine it's not designed for.. IE Win7 on a Win8 machine, etc etc..
Even then, there are always alternatives...
My philosophy has always been to NEVER put anything on a computer that you can't live without..
If Drivers are your concern, don't worry. With VERY few exceptions, drivers are ALWAYS available..
The hassle of going out into the wild of the Interent to find them is really the only downside...
Michale

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Greetings,
I purchased a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook about 7 or 8 years ago, and it recently crashed on me. Every time I turn it on it doesn't reach my sign window where I input my password, it only keeps on restarting itself. I seem to have lost my recovery and drivers disc and now, I need help acquiring another recovery disc.
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http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-13442-recovery-kit-435422-001-for-hp-model-number-dv6108nr.aspx
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Price: $27.00
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