Reinstallation Help

My daughter purchased an HP Windows 8 preinstalled Laptop. I am having to replace her hard drive since the original failed. Therefore, there is no recovery partition to reinstall from. How can I reinstall Windows 8 on this when HP did not send an install
disk? I do not think it is right that HP wants to charge $50.00 for a disk that should have come with the system to begin with. I see there is an evaluation for Free download but that is the Enterprise edition and I am pretty sure that is not what she had.
Andy North

if the laptop is still under warranty, HP will replace the HDD and reload Windows for you.
For some years, manufacturers have not shipped recovery media, instead they offer an on-disk solution (recover from a hidden partition), and/or, they offer a software utility to create recovery media (sometimes DVD, sometimes USB).
In my experience, such solutions will prompt the new user, at setup time, to create recovery media (but sadly many people don't understand this, so do not create it).
If you know anybody with exactly the same laptop, you should be able to create a set of recovery media on their computer, and then use that media on your computer.
Otherwise I would recommend you to get the recovery media from HP.
You can re-construct manually by hand, but it will be complicated to assemble all the necessary software, unless you have access to the required expertise.
Don
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