Create Recovery Partition D on DVD - HP Pavilion 6620f

I've just replaced the original, slowly failing 1 TB internal hard drive that came with this PC with a Western Digital one that is only 300 GB. When restoring the backup image from the original disk, there was not enough space to restore the Recovery Partition D. PC's operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.
Someone told me to put the partition onto a "bootable DVD" in case of future need. 2 questions:
Is this the right solution?
If so, can anyone tell me how to do it? Or direct me to somewhere to learn?
I am NOT a technical person and found the whole disk replacement thing totally intimidating despite all the learning I did doing it! This is why I'm not sure what to do now - or if it is even do-able for a "non-techie".
Any suggestions most appreciated! Thanks.
Linda
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lindairene,
Your correct. The DVD will re-create the entire original C and D partitions on a hard drive.
1) The hard drive (in GB) must be the same size or greater
2)  It looks for the original hardware configuration. You must not have changed the hardware cards.
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