Some has the recovery discs on the OS You have to make copies from laptop if You can still get on Your Laptop go to search and type in recovery cds! see what you get! if You do have it is a lot easier to copy them to DVDs then cds because it takes a lot of cds! If You don't have a recovery, then You will have to purchase recovery cds from Toshiba! Or if You are familiar with Linux, that is Your best route, because You can get a free Linux Mint OS from the Linux Mint website! Linux has come a long way! Regards!