I somehow erased the recovery files on the HD. I have the DVD's and can recover with them but want the recovery partition because it's faster. Just copying them doesn't work. This happened while installing XP Pro on a second drive which also didn't work.

What make and model of computer?

Hi,
It is HP M7750N. 400 gig HD, 2 gig mem, 2.66 AMD X64-2. Media Center Model
Thanks

Hi John,
Iam a new member so I may have answered 2times.
HP M7750N, 400 gig HD, 2 Gig mem,

Generally, you'll have to use the recovery CD/DVD's to restore the partition - then you can use it to recovery from (but not all HP's may work this way).

You know, the store pro said that also but when I restored from the DVD everything went well except for the partition recovery. Thanks for the help. Like I said, I can use the DVD but the partition is so much faster and I do have the habit of messing things up on my machines. I got my first one in 1975, the old TRS80. By for now.

Use Dos.
I made a recovery partition on a Sony laptop with a program called NTFS4DOS and XXcopy.
It’s a DOS Boot disk that can read NTFS files. Once you boot with NTFS4DOS copy have to
Use the file XXcopy to copy your DVD’s to the Recovery partition. If you do a little reading on XXcopy it can be a powerful tool. I use it to rip DVD’s (for backup purpose).
I don’t know how your recovery partition works but with Sony’s the partition is non accessible. So I had to use a typical partition.
I had no problems with system recovery using a standard partition.

NTFS4DOS download
http://www.softsland.com/Avira_NTFS4DOS_Personal.html

XXcopy
http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlxxcopy.html

xxcopy commands. This text file should help if you don’t know Xcopy or XXcopy commands.
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy19.htm

Thanks, emucade I'll give it a try.