Original title: Windows 8 recovery help
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NW350F laptop computer that was recently given to me. I know that originally, this laptop ran on Windows 7, but before the laptop was given to me, a new hard drive that runs on Windows 8 was installed. I'd like to do a recovery, but every time I try, it says "insert media some files are missing. your windows installation or recovery media will provide these files". The problem is, I don't have any of that. So, I looked it up, and I was considering making a recovery DVD, but it says that I need to have a previously installed version of windows, so I tried to upgrade to windows 8.1, but it won't work. Do I actually need to do this or can I just make the recovery DVD's and go ahead with the system recovery? Please help! I'm absolutely lost!!