Satellite L650 & Win8 - how to go back to Win7?

I installed windows 8 consumer preview over my windows 7, is there an option to return to windows 7?
I have a Toshiba Satellite L650-1K2.
I tried to activate the hdd-recovery by pressing 0 and then turn on the computer but that doesn't work.
So are there possibilities to return to windows 7?

If you did not create the recover disk BEFORE upgrading the system to Win 8 then you have no other choice as to order a new Recovery disk from Toshiba

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