Recovery disk cost (any?)? Hard drive just died out of warranty

[balboa100]

DV7-3065DX, 16 months old and HD died a few days ago, totally dead. I've ordered a replacement but now that I'm out of warranty, and obviously I have no operating system (as it was on the now dead hard drive), can I order disks at a discount from HP? Their office is closed now. I can get Windows 7 Home from Amazon for about a hundred bucks but as I have a valid key on the back of this laptop would hate the idea of paying for an OS I rightfully was using. Thanks!

[CherylG · Accepted solution]

You can order Recovery Disks from HP for around $16. The set will reinstall Windows and all original drivers & software that came on the laptop.

[CherylG]

Btw_you had software on the original hdd to burn a Recovery set. See "Create a set of operating system recovery discs":

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01895783

[balboa100]

Thanks, Cheryl. There must be a reason I didn't do it, and I know I've done it before on other laptops. Heck, maybe I did now that you mention it. I'll have to check my disks. Thanks very much, $16 is painless in any case.

[CherylG]

You're very welcome. Maybe you will even find that you did make the set & put them away.Has happened before.;)

[rrreney]

My pc died in less than 90 days. I had made a backup set the day I bought the PC. They didn't work (actually in the end the mother board was defective) but the agent made me buy another set of disks for $29.  What a rip off scam!!!  Where is my refund?

[NYRB74]

Same DV7-3065DX model, same problem-dead HD, bought about 18 months ago. Seems too short a time for these HD's to be going.

[goran1234]

Hi, i have a same problem, just with suse enterprise OS. I have destroed recovery partition, how i can restore it? Do i need suse recovery dvd, and where i can get it?

[harsu]

Hi, I have recently purchased hp pavilion 15n-225ut notebook with genuine windows 8.1, but i did't make recovery disk and it's my badluck during partition making my os became corrupted or need recovery, so help me to recover it again.

[Abd300]

Hey everyone,

I purchased my (Hp 2000-2d19SX) laptop in january 2014 at saudi arabia. This system was having its pre installed operating system "Windows 8".

I upgraded it to 8.1 & unfortunately، I didn't create its back up. Now i want to get back all my original items like OS, drivers & other programs which were pre installed on this laptop by HP. I tried to contact HP saudi arabia but not accessible.

Please help me, in restoring all my original things.

Thanksss