Have you got a new Windows 8 computer from HP...

[StuartR]

...if so then please follow these instructions to create rescue media. It is so much easier to do this now, when it is working, than to come to the lounge looking for help when it's too late.

[jmt356]

Do you also have the link for creating rescue media for HP laptops running Windows 7? I just realized that I forgot to create rescue media for a Pavilion dv6, even though I have had it for more than a year.

[HansV]

See Creating Recovery Discs or Saving a Recovery Image to a USB Flash Drive (Windows 7)