Is it possible to delete the recovery partition on HDD?

I had a virus on my laptop, so I gave it to a 'specialist'.
When I had it back it turned out, that it didn't work properly - another specialist said that the recovery disc was deleted - is it possible? or is it just hidden?
And if I do not have the recovery HDD any more, what should I do know?
Where can I buy ad to recovery to recover my system?
Please, help me, cause I'm a total ignoramus as far as computers are concerned...:(
helpless Kate:(

Hi,
just noticed your response on a thread and thought I would try this question on you which relates to a product recovery thread i started....
I backed up all files and ran system recovery last night. It all went ok (i think) however i had no idea what to do when it asked me to choose partition size. there where two options. the first option was checked by default and had "recommended" after it. It did however have an adjustable scale from 0-11.4 gB.
The second otpion i cannot remember (it was 4am!!).
Anyway i used another computer to access info on Internet, but after finding no help i simply had to go for it. Thus i left the adjustable tab in the default position that i found it in which was at 11.4gB.
System is working good when i started up again but i notice that i have almost completely used up disc space. I guess this is something to do with my choice of 11.4gb.
Thus i think i will (hope i can) run the recovery again and rectify this issue by allocating less disc space. i knew there would be something, hence the amount of questions I asked before doing it.
Please tell me this is reversible by recovering again, and please give me an idea of the amount of space i should choose.
thanks
Tim

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