I need to reinstall the OS, but have no recovery partition

My Mac is about 6 years old. Recently, my hard drive has failed and has been replaced but I have no recovery partition. Just a blank hard drive, I can boot from a bootable device but I have no way to reinstall Yosemite because I don't think I had an installation with her DVD. All I see on the web uses the recovery mode to reinstall. I tried using the recovery of internet as well, but it doesn't connect. I know that this could happen to anyone before. Any ideas how I can reinstall my PC friends before know my mac is dead

If you have a family member or a friend with a Mac with Yosemite you can create a bootable USB Installer: create an installer for OS X - Apple support bootable

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