Backup Recovery & Changed Recovery Partition Drive

Product    : HP Pavilion dv6-6c10us
OS      : Windows 7 64-bit
Error       : Cannot create Factory Default Back-Ups/Laptop Recovery Back-Ups
Changes : Recovery Partition on D drive changed to F drive
Question : What is the process of telling the HP programs and the laptop itself that the recovery partition is now on the F
                    drive?
                    I made a back-up of the Recovery partition before I changed drives. I did not make a back-up of the factory set-up
                    back-up (5 dvds). All newly added programs from my XP 32-bit desktop are now on the D partition.

I changed the drive letters with Windows 7 disk manager using the drive letter change options. I can put the Recovery drive back to drive D and the recovery options would work fine. But I wanted it as another drive letter because my programs from the other pc were installed to that letter and it was just easy to reinstall most of the programs back that way. Of course I had to bump the disk drive down a letter too so that the hdd stuff was right beside each other. Everything is fine, besides recovery on my settings. I just want to tell the computer that the recovery partition is on another partition for the HP program to be able to know where it is again.

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Drag the top back to the bottom.'
Apply
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Apply
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