Is there a way to recreate the recovery partition??

My laptop crashed, it took several attempts to reboot the OS. I had to use disks from hp--not ones that were made off my computer. It is finally up and running, but i noticed my recovery partition was missing. It said i had 32G total in C drive, Knew that was wrong. I found out i had a lot of unallocated space. I have since expanded the hard drive to one, then created a 12G partition. I have no idea what files need to be on that hard drive, or if it will work as a recovery drive. I still have the disks, but i would like to recreate this partion just in case. Please help.

Hp dv2745se
vista home premium 32 bit
hard drive 250G
amd 64x2 prcessors

Since you have the HP disks, why would you want a recovery partition? But what you can do (I did that on my wife's laptop), is to create a partition and store an image in that. That is a lot more practical the day you have to recover. Here is how: http://www.vistax64.com/software/261727-image-your-system-free-macrium.html

whs said:

Since you have the HP disks, why would you want a recovery partition? But what you can do (I did that on my wife's laptop), is to create a partition and store an image in that. That is a lot more practical the day you have to recover. Here is how: http://www.vistax64.com/software/261727-image-your-system-free-macrium.html

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I want to recreate it just in case something happens to the disks. Also it took 6 tries with the disks hp sent; each reboot took 6hrs each to install. These disks are just general ones from HP, i don't think they are very compatible with my machine. I already partitioned the hard drive, i just need to know what files to put in there, and if this would do any good? Thanks for the advise, but i'll keep looking.

As I said, the image way is the very easiest and fastest. I just recovered my system from an image (but from an external disk). Took 20 minutes. That would be a little slower with the image on the same disk as the OS partition - but still.
But there is nothing wrong exploring alternatives.