Recovery CDs and new HDD

Hello all in Lenovo community. All I would like to know is if I can use recovery media made with RnR 4.2 to create hidden RnR partition in my new purely clean HDD? I mean, will it create a recovery partition, write new MBR, so the new HDD would be just like the old one, with working Think Vantage button? Thank you for support.

Yes, The cd's will create the recovery partition and then you will reboot and install windows from the recovery partition.
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Hi,
Run the BIOS hardware diagnostic and make sure that your PC is OK. Check with Seagate and make sure that the hard drive that you received is not an advanced format hard drive as these types of drives will not work with the older HP recovery programs.
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S/N: {Private Information Removed}
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