HD Recovery
As a small dealer in new and used laptops I have yet to find a new laptop that does not have the ability to make recovery disks if the machine has a recovery partition. No recovery partition then the laptop should come with either a dedicated recovery disk or a Windows system disk plus a driver disk at the very least.This is the norm in the UK for major brand machines. If it is a clone machine and no disks or the ability to make the disks think carefully and start adding the cost of buying a new disks to the price of the machine.