My recovery drive is not visible in my hp pavilion g6-2137tx

My problem is very big. I installed ubuntu alongside with windows 7.For that ubuntu created a special drive of  83 gb. After installing ubuntu my recovery drive was just shownig some text files but the recovery drive was full and still there..
so i decided to delete ubuntu so i went to disk management and formated that 83 gb partition but after that my laptop was not able to boot...It was not starting and just showed an error" no such partition".So i installed windows 8  from a disk.After the installation recovery partition is missing and it is not visible on "my computer".I think that i still have my recovery drive because my total partion is 463 gp and since my laptop is equiped with 500gb hard disk. Is there any way so that i can recover my partition and get back to original windows 7 which came with my laptop in the begining..
pls help

HI mohit12393,
Thank you for your query.
Reo is correct, your Recovery Manager was wiped when you  installed from the disk.  You do have the option to use your Windows restore, for your backups. Using Microsoft System Restore (Windows 8)    You can also use third party software, to create an ISO image, which could be  used to restore the computer, back to the time you created the image Here are some examples of ISO backup software.ex amples of ISO burning software.
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