Obtaining recovery disk for older units (ThinkPad T500)

Greetings,
If this is a duplicate of something else, I apologize. The hard drive on my T500 needs to be replaced as it is totally dead (unbootable and unrecoverable.) I can obtain and install a new hard drive, however, I've lost the backup/recovery CD for this four year old machine. Does anyone know if Lenovo sells these still? Also, is it possible to buy from Lenovo, a set of recovery media for Windows 7 so I can upgrade at the same time I replace. Was lucky enough to get all the data needed off this unit and onto a new laptop before the drive crashed. However, I'd still like to salvage and re-use the old laptop.
Thanks for any help available.

Welcome to the forum!
I'm reasonably certain that Lenovo will still have the media for T500 available, I believe that the set is something like $50.
Having said, they can only sell you a set that matches the COA on your machine, so no upgrade is possible.
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