Recovering operating system from broken hard drive

jabberwocky8297

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Hi my daughter has a laptop and now the harddrive has failed. She failed to make a recovery disc and now as the computer was supplied with windows 7 on it and no disc has no os to put back on. Is there anyway other than buying windows 7 to recover the os?
 

Soda-88

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you can download win7 ISO image, burn it to dvd and use it to reinstall your windows

http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?/topic/8906-official-windows-7-sp1-disks/

use the product key written on the sticker somewhere on your laptop

this is perfectly legal, just make sure you download the right version (for which you have the licence; most likely home premium but not necessarily)