Transfer Recovery Partition???

I have a Laptop HD that has a recovery partition. I need to change out the drive. I wanted to know if/how I can transfer that recovery partition to my new drive. Then do an OS reinstall from that partition.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

I went in and made system files viewable. I copied everything to a folder on my ext. drive. Any one out there that has any experience with this.

Thanks.

You could find a program that will make an image of the recovery partition or you could use a unix/linux tool called dd to make an image. Lots of tools exist for this purpose.

I believe it would look something like this.
dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image