Is it possible to clone/install recovery partition from somewhere?

Hi, hope I got the place for this question right.
I have a GS60 2PC Ghost, and recently I had an accident where my laptop met the ground from a somewhere around 1.70m/5.6ft, I then looked if everything worked right, and from the 3 problems I found, one was the webcam not working, but I just found out why (I was always curious what was that Fn+F6 button), the letter D had stopped working (And somehow it works now), and the touchpad stopped working. 1 week later, while playing GTAV though, I had a BSOD and chkdsk found a irreparable error on the secondary HD (1TB). I couldn't access it anymore, so I bought another one (Which ended up being the same model), tried to backup the old stuff but was unsuccessful, so I just connected the new HD and everything is working now (The touchpad was disconnected, so I connected it again).
Anyway, while trying to do the backup, I noticed 2 partitions on the HD, the second one being the recovery, which I also couldn't save, so now I'm on a new secondary HD with no recovery partition.
My windows is fine, c: has no errors and I do not want to reinstall windows or stuff which was most of the stuff I was finding, my question is:
Is there a tool that can just install a new recovery partition somehow?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this is a repeated question, most of the answers I found seemed to be related to problems and recovery disks to recover windows, which is not what I'm looking for, as this is mostly an inconvenience that will probably give me long headaches sometime in the future.

Quote from: HenryW on 24-May-15, 10:35:36
This should do what you need to clone the drive:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/home-edition/
I've used their stuff in the past and it worked good for me.
Edit: you really should modify/edit your last post and get rid of the foul language. What you typed in their is against forum rules which it appears you need to read.
Thanks of the warning, editted it.
I used another tool (Recuva) for trying to clone it (I made a rescue bootable USB), and I got 2 different errors on my 2 tries, one as a CRC32 cyclic redundancy error when trying to clone only the recovery partition, and another was something about broken pipe, when doing the normal too, basically, I believe the drive itself is already gone (I really wonder how it worked for a whole week like that...). I also looked at searching for deleted files, and it got some, and then, it stopped. Basically, the hardware seems to die after a minute or so.

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