I deleted my Recovery partition Lion and I need it to repair my hard drive.

I am running the newest Lion and I need to repair my hard drive by booting into recovery option+r at boot. I deleted the partition I believe so any way i can get it back? Just so you know I can't partition my hard drive for boot camp because i cant repair my HD

YOU as a USER can not install the Lion Recovery HD (Partition) on your internal hard drive. The only thing that can install the Lion Recovery HD partition is Lion itself.
If you have a recovery hd partition already on the internal hard drive you can make a Boot USB stick that has all the recovery HD files on it that you can use to boot the computer and do maintenance or browse the web (get help from Apple or other places) or install (reinstall) Lion.
Have you tried the Command+r boot?
Have you tried the Option key boot?
If you have what do you get with both of those keyboard options?
If you haven't tried them PLEASE give them a try.

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