Create Recovery Media from Recovery Partition

I'm trying to help my sister fix her laptop, it's a HP Pavillion DM3. The hard drive has developed a physical fault which is preventing it from booting into Windows, however the Recovery partition appears to be undamaged.
What I would like to do is replace the hard drive with a new one, and restore it using the recovery partition from the old hard drive. Is there any way I can do one of the following:
1. Create recovery media when booting into recovery manager/the recovery partition?
2. Copy the hidden contents of the Recovery folder on this partition (when connecting the drive to another computer), so I can copy the recovery partition to a new physical disk?
Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.
Matt
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MattGoldman,
When requesting assistance, please provide the complete model name and/or product number of the HP computer in question. HP/Compaq makes thousands of models of computers. Without this information it may be difficult or impossible to assist you in resolving your issue.
The above requested information can be found on the bottom of your computer, inside the battery compartment or on the startup BIOS screen. Please DO NOT include your serial number. Please enter the model/product information into HP's Online Consumer Support page and post it here for our review.
Neither the methods you have described nor the procedures that have been provided will work. While, it possible that "D:\" HP Recovery partition is fully intact it is more likely that it isn't. The only way I think you may be able to recover the system at this moment is to purchase a new hard drive of like size and capacity as the failing drive, and "clone" the entire old drive to the new drive. This will / may require two USB 2.5" external drive enclosures and a working computer to accomplish.
After the drive is "cloned", place the new drive in the HP laptop computer and see if it boots. If it boots, immediately create the HP Recovery Media. If it doesn't boot, try setting the "D:\" HP Recovery partition as active using a drive partitioning utility. If this boots, it should start the HP Recovery process and return the computer to a factory like state.
If none of the above works, please contact official HP Customer Support in your region / country, via the HP Worldwide Support Portal, to see if HP Recovery Discs are available.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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