Computer companies stopped shipping recovery disks with the machines several years ago - around the time they started putting it on a hidden recovery partition. Having that partition deleted by a corp IT dept wouldn't surprise me in the least. I recently jumped an old xp box straight to win10 and I gotta say I like it better - even runs the same box faster than xp did. Mention that because ya can get it for free (missing a few features) and there's nothing like a clean install to clean things up. Been using it for months, don't really miss the missing features.