All depends on the manufacturer. As stated above, more than likely you have a hidden partition with recovery software. When I bought my Dell laptop last year I had the option to add physical media for a couple bucks more.
Also look into extracting the files onto a flash drive, makes installs much faster if you can. Most computers now can boot from a usb device. Only takes me about 15 minutes to complete a clean install of Win7 from a flash drive.
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