Years ago, I bought an acer aspire E1-571. I made a recovery key but lost it when I moved to a different state. 3 weeks ago I backed up my data and used acer recovery to reload windows 8. It went fine but when I tried to make another acer recovery key, it stopped at about 99%. So I left it, went to work and came back and it was froze. So I shut the computer down, removed the key and planned to start again on the weekend. When I tried to start it up, I found out the hard drive went bad. The laptop is out of warranty so I purchased a new hard drive.
Next I came here expecting to get a copy of the OS and drivers. Drivers yes, os no. But I found it at microsoft. But what I would like to know is:
Where can I get a copy of the acer recovery so I can put it on the new hard drive I just purchased from new egg?
I do not want to have to purchase a media set, like they require you to do at HP. Is there a place to download it here? I have searched and found the drivers page but not a copy of of the recovery so It will be just like I purchased it.