Need to figure out how to get windows on a brand new hard drive

So my hard drive for my Toshiba Satellite L505-s59903 ended up fully crashing past the point of every being used again. So i replaced the hard drive, only problem is i never made back up disks for my os. I was wondering is there a way for me to get ahold of the windows 7 recovory disks for my laptop. Right now since i don't have a os for the laptop i have a version of linux running, but i wanted to get back to windows, any help would be great.
also to add i do have a copy of windows XP, but i didn't want to have to use it if i could get the recovery disks instead.
If OS recovery isn't availble is there a way to make a driver disk so i can install the new version of windows?

If you don't care about having an exact restore w/ the recovery partition, or Office 2007 or other software that it shipped with:
download the Win7 iso w/ Service Pack 1 from Digital River (Google for links)
burn it to disk
then go to the Downloads section for your model & d/l all the Toshiba stuff (except Intel storage driver if you still have a HD that uses 512K sectors.   Not an "advanced format" drive. You need the Intel driver for advanced format. It translates the larger sector size of the drive to smaller ones for the older PCs, or something like that. It slows the system down, too.)
go to Toshiba support, downloads; find L505D-S6947, and get the Windows 7 Upgrade instructions for that model to use as a guide to install theToshiba stuff
install your "generic" Windows 7 on the Toshiba
install your Toshiba model's stuff
use to COA number on sticker on the bottom to activate (If you don't have that, buy recovery disks for $30 shipped will be your solution.   You can run the d/l Windows 7 unactivated for 30 days but it will nag you all the time that it needs to be activated and isn't a genuine Windows. And I think that it also takes some mysterious pauses every now and then, just to irritate those who are using it free.)
burn a disk image / backup of it as soon as you have it tweaked and updated and running just right
That should work.   I think I listed all the steps.
You can d/l Office 2010 but I don't think you can get 2007.   If you don't have disks for that, or Quickbooks, and need it, Recovery disks are the cheap answer.
The shipper for the Toshiba recovery disks is pretty fast. I just bought disks for the secondhand L505-ES5034 i3 that I bought with a trashed hard drive and no recovery partition or disks.   I put the Win8 preview on it and then the add-on start button, and I'm liking that pretty much. Excect I can't load any Toshiba software and thus I have no battery life indicator anymore and I have been shut down several times now, haha.

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