Accidentally deleted "Recovery HD" partition

I accidentally deleted "Recovery HD" partition. How can I get back or re-install it?
I'm using MacBook Pro Retina 13"
Intel 2.4 GHz Core I%
OSX 10.9.2

Only if you use Disk Utility to first erase the drive. Otherwise, it should install all new OS files over the existing ones, and recreate the hidden Recovery partition. Your third party apps, user account and personal files will remain as they are.
But as mentioned, there's always the possibility something will happen that shouldn't, and you could lose files. So have a full backup in place, first.

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