Create Recovery CDs Manually

Greetings,
I have a Pavilion a6300t that was running Vista Home Premium 32 and had to replace the drive. Problem is the owner no longer has the recovery CDs that were created when it was new. The old drive is in-tact, as are the files on the recovery partition. Is there a way I can manually recreate a set of recovery disks from the partition without running the recovery manager? Since it was already done once, I woudn't be able to use the RM program anyway.
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
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"Based on what has been stated you have effectivly removed all ability to recover back to the factory configuration. You may have also violated your warrenty at the same time. It is not possible to place that partition back."
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