Creating Vista Recovery disk on Portege M400

I have upgraded an M400 which came with XP to Vista Business. Launching the Toshiba Recovery Disk utility delivers a message "not HDD partition found". The management console shows a recovery partition - though it probably still has the XP recovery info.
Anybody got ideas on how to transfer in a Vista recovery image into this partition? Is this available from Toshiba somewhere in the world? I can get my tech support people to chase it if we know it exists....
Cheers
From Australia

Hi,
maybe you should properly format the drive and remove ALL partitions with an external program (like UBCD -> "Ultimate Boot CD") and then try it again.
It can be that the XP recovery partition is blocking the new recovery/installation process.
If I were you I would try this format-thingy.
Otherwise grab another HDD and try it with this. ;)
Cheers

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> When I asked Toshiba support if I could use these disks to make a dual boot machine, they said no, that the XP > recovery disk would wipe the Vista installation - but posts here suggest otherwise!
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An HP document regarding the creation of Recovery Media can be found on the following link.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03481733&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en#N712
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