How to download a copy of windows 8?

[Siddharth3]

Accidently I deleted my windows recovery partition operating system . How and where can I download a copy of windows 8.I do not see my windows lisence sticker on my computer.

Computer-HP Laptop

Model-HP 240 G3

[iomare]

Hi,

You can download a copy of windows 8.1 directly from Microsoft. Download the media creation tool and run it. Follow the various windows and create a bootable USB pan drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8

You can also create a recovery drive (USB) directly from within the OS. In search type recovery drive and click on create recovery drive and follow the various windows.

Hope it helps,

David

[WAWood]

@Siddharth3

The Recovery partition provided the ability to do a factory reset on your PC, such that the original OS, the drivers, and the HP utilities could be restored.  A download from MS will not have the drivers or the HP utilities.

IF what you want is recovery media, then I personally prefer to use third-party Recovery solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.

Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry. This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck