I cant find my recovery disc, is there any way of downloading the information, I cant find my recovery disc, is there any way of downloading the information

Please help. I used Speed4mac to clean up my macbook pro. I dont know what i have done but my Mac is now running slow.
I have used Disk Utility first aid and it says i need my recovery disc. However, I can not find this!!
Is there any way round this?? ie a download??
Look forward to some advice!!

Which operating system version were you running?  Lion (10.7) had no discs.
OSX: About Lion Recovery - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 > Lion Internet Recovery - using the Internet to start when recovery disk partition not available.
Snow Leopard an earlier came with discs. Call Apple Customer Support 1-800-767-2775 (telephone numbers for other countries - http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57). Provide the serial number and specifications of the Mac.  They may be able to provide a replacement set of discs for a fee.  These discs will be for whatever OS was installed on the computer originally, so if you have an upgraded version you will need to obtain the discs some other way.
It's kind of late to say so now but never use a "cleaning" or maintenance utility.

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