Recovering system after hard drive crash

'We have a Toshiba Netbook NB505.  In december, the origional hard drive started crashing.  We pulled as much data off of it as possible and replaced the hard drive with a 1TB.  
The netbook did not come with windows disks, and we were unaware that a recovery disk needed to be made before there was an issue.  Initially, the laptop came with Windows 7 Starter and we upgraded it through the 'upgrade anytime' option.
As we were trying to figure out how to recover the upgraded OS, we have used Lubuntu to partition the new disk and Clonezilla to clone the old drive partitions (the old drive works short term if you keep it cold).  Currently, there are the three partitions that were on the origional drive, roughly the same size they were, and the rest of the space set up for storage.  The small "first" partition and the hidden recovery partition cloned with no issues, and the 'main' boot partition appears to be a match.  None of the partitions boot (leaves a flashing cursor)
The old drive can boot into come recovery options but will not fully boot into windows to generate a recovery disk at this point.
I do have an option on the origional drive to 'restore to out of box condition', but I'm saving this as a last resort.
My questions are: is there any way to recover this OS without buying another copy (which is rediculous), and when you do the 'anytime upgrade' does it update the recovery partition to the new version, or is it still 7 Starter on that partition?
Also, the 'hold 0 on boot to enter Toshiba Recovery Wizard' does not work.  Is there another way to kickstart a recovery from the recover partition on the new drive to see if it has the upgraded copy?

is there any way to recover this OS without buying another copy
Toshiba says the recovery discs are free. The ridiculous charge is for postage and handling. You can order them at Get Recovery Media here.
when you do the 'anytime upgrade' does it update the recovery partition to the new version, or is it still 7 Starter on that partition?
The recovery partition never changes.
Always tell us which NB505 you have when you post here. There is a label on the bottom.
-Jerry

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