Satellite A500-19U Recovery problem

Hi every body
While I am making HDDRecovery from the  Hard disk(I didnt make recovery disks ), a problem happened that stop the installation, when  the computer restart  I see that there is no OS so I cant make recovery from hard disk, the original OS is Win 7 64x,
but i use win7 86x to formatt the laptop,
the question is : can I make  recovery disks from the Hddrecovery in the D partition???
or how I can restore my original OS from partiton D ????
plz need help

Satellite A500-19U
Sounds like you need to order the recovery media.
   Toshiba Europe Backup Media Online Shop
You might get better advice for that European machine in the following forums.
   Toshiba Support Forums in Europe
-Jerry

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