Recovery of Win 8.1 on HP 15-r151nr

Hi!
I have notebook HP 15-r151nr
My notebook has a pre-installed Windows 8.1 single language OEM
But I re-install Windows 7 on my notebook. GPT (or MBR) was replaced and recovery partition was deleted.
But then I was need Windows 8.1 again. I have installed Win 8.1 from other sources , but I want to have my previous Windows 8.1 single language OEM.
Befor installing Windows 7 I have made 5 recovery disks, but now first disk is destroyed. Following 4 disks are normal.
And I have copies all files from recovery disks on my external HDD.
I try recreate first recovery disk. He contained directories:
/boot
/EFI,
/factoryUpdate ,
/preload ,
/Recovery ,
/sources ,
and following files:
bootmgr, bootmgr.efi , Info.dat , install.swm , install2.swm - install12.
I have made the booting DVD by ADK as:
"F:\SDK_win8\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools\amd64\Oscdimg\oscdimg.exe" -n -m –bF:\etfsboot.com D:\new D:\new\DVD1.iso
where -
"D:" is external HDD containing these files and directories
and I placed etfsboot.com to F: .
Then I perfomed recovery by Update and recovery -> Recovery -> Advanced options -> EFI DVD/CDROM
but after reboot message "The selected boot device failed" appeared.
I need either the image of the first disk or in the way of his regeneration.
Please help!
Thank you!

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I understand that when you purchased your notebook it had Windows 8.1 installed. You created your recovery disk and then installed Window 7.
You now need to reinstall your Windows 8.1 but the first disk of the recovery is damaged but the remaining 4 are good. You tried to copy an image to the notebook but that was also unsuccessful.
I suggest contacting HP support and advising them of the issue with your recovery disk and inquire about obtaining a recovery kit.
Here is a link on Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 8) to aid with that process.
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