Pavilion a1257c Dead drive hard lost recovery disk.

I need a hard drive and a recovery disk.  Any hard drive works?   In addition, the recovery disks are still available?

Geekster, do you have any recommendations as to where I could buy a recovery disk?

0Seeker1340, welcome to the forum.

Yes, you can use any SATA drive of the computer.  I suggest buying a 500 GB drive, 7200 RPM.  This will give you a lot of space.

Here's a guide to get recovery discs if they are available:

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/bph07143

I would be surprised if they are available, however.  There are sites online that sell older HP recovery discs.

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