Recovery partition with no recovery

Hello,
My customer's laptop (Compaq Presario CQ58 - hopefully it's good place to ask that question) had some issues with hard drive, so I replace it with bigger one. I've cloned all partition trying to save 3 other sizes (Compaq specific ones: first, probably Windows-installator-100MB, third - recovery and fourth-some-software) exact, so only C partition has been expanded. Because it was at-customer-home fix, I haven't done it exactly by sectors position, but simply by size given in cloning software input fields. Software used - WD's edition of Acronis True Image.
So drive has been cloned and starts fine. Recovery option during bootsrap (F10 tapping) is available and loaded HP menu is present, but recovery option there is inactive. Like some file or sector pointer is missing. Standard Windows recovery points are available only.
Question is - how to recreate proper *whole drive recovery* option to that system ?
I've done additional sector-by-sector backup of those 3 partitions from old drive, so I think if I restore them by brute force now - recovery should work fine then (if MBR has not been treated by HP some strange way). But is there another option ? I don't know recovery partition general-format, so it's why I'm asking the source
Thank you for any clues.

The simplest method is to use the usb recovery media to perform a factory image recovery to the new hard disk.
The factory image recovery executed from recovery media will create all required partitions, including a fresh recovery partition, and enable the HP recovery manager to operate as expected from within Windows or from an F11 keystroke on powering up.
Copy all important data, documents , photos and videos to external storage before you begin. The factory image recovery will delet all partitions that are currently on the hard disk.
Of course, the unfortunate downside is that you will have to reinstall the programs and utilities that you have already installed to the new drive. 
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