If this is an OEM computer system from a manufacturer or store, (ie with the OS already installed), then that Recovery Partition was created and populated by the manufacturer.
There is no way you can restore that.
Mark
When it seem to become necessary to install a clean copy of Vista, I was not paying close enough attention during the installation process and/or did not begin the process correctly, and managed to incorrectly install a clean copy of vista on my recovery drive d:\.
After that I made another attempt and successfully installed the clean copy of Vista where it should have, drive c:\.
However that left me with two OS's, one on each partition. This left drive d:\ with 1MB of space left. So I somehow needed to correct this. After asking around on how to uninstall the OS from the wrong partion I couldn't find a clear answer. So I took one suggestion I got and that was to reformat d:\. Which I did.
As d:\ is my recovery drive, I no longer have a recovery drive.
How can I get d:\ back to it original setup, design, purpose? Obviously a System Restore will not work. I'm finding discussion threads on a restoring to factory settings. Is this the way to go under these conditions? I have two Original CDs one labeled Operating System and one labled Drivers and Utilities.
Thanks for your help!

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