Recovery Media created 5 factory restore discs as requested, however 6 were needed for my restore!

I clicked finish as there were no more discs requested when burning a set of 5 (as asked for by the HP Recovery Media software).
Now when I'm trying to do a factory restore, it asks for disc 6 which of course, I don't have.
As I re-formatted everything a little while back, I can't use F11(?) to restore anything back except by my discs. My notebook is a dv7t-4100 CTO. I live in Australia but a new set of recovery discs are only posted to USA & Canadian residents. Any ideas please?
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Talk to online with HP about your problem, http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h_pagetype=s-00​6&h_lang=en&h_cc=us&h_product=321957&h_client=S-A-​...
They would send you the Recovery discs (if your still in the warranty) in Australia.
I once has to order Recovery discs for my laptop, I contacted HP by chatting with them online, and they have send the discs.

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