Recovery issues no disc

Hi, wondered if any one can help. My hard drive appears to have stopped working and am having issues trying to recover. I cant find my recovery discs, so when I add a new hard drive I obviously don't have a boot disc for vista. Can anyone help. Many thanks. K
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Hi,
Unless you have deleted the Recovery partition on your machine, otherwise your machine should have a Recovery partition. Make sure backing up all of your files before restoring the PC/laptop to factory settings.
To set your PC/laptop to factory settings, restart the PC/laptop. At the HP welcome screen hit repeatly the F11 key to launch the recovery process. Follow the instructions provided on the screen.
Please also check this:
  http://h50146.www5.hp.com/lib/doc/manual/workstation/xw8400/HP_Backup_and_Recovery_Manager_User_Guid...
Last resource: you can order a new set from the following link:
   http://www.computersurgeons.com/SearchProducts.aspx?sbt=m8200n&bkm=Results#Results
Good luck,
BH
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    I grasp that when you tried to do the recovery from  a USB key you received the  error  "Detect some error during PININST_BBV"
    "Check C:\system.sav\logs\BurnBootWarn.log"
    or "check c:\system.sav\logs\BurnBootMerge.log"
    First I would test for any hardware failures just to rule out that possibiltiy'
    Testing for Hardware Failures (Windows 8)
    This step resolved this issue for someone else perhaps it will work for you also.
    When you boot up your computer hit F10 that will take you to the BIOS manager. then hit F9 to set BIOS to factory default save and exit then do recovery.
    Here are two more links that may be of assistance.
    Recovering your computer from a USB flash drive
    Troubleshooting HP System Recovery Problems (Windows 8)
    You could also try changing the date in the bios to BIOS to  1/01/2012.
    If the issue should still remain please contact HP support for assistance. It is possible the the recovery media has a problem.
    Good Luck!
    Sparkles1
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