HP Pavilion DV7-4120em recovery

Hello,
A HP Pavilion DV7-4120em laptop has been in the family for quite a few years now. It's been passed to my use now from my father. Sometime during my father's use of the laptop, it went through a repair, and the entire hard drive has been substituted, with a version of Windows 7 Ultimate installed at the time. Of course, this means I can't recover the operating system and all the settings to default anymore.
My question is : Can I still get a recovery disk, in any way, for this model ? I live in Europe - Slovenia.
Thank you
XM
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HP Support told you that Recovery Discs ae no longer available? I find that odd for a Windows 7 machine.
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