Toshiba L505-LS5007 Recovery Partition

Question

I got this used laptop from a friend and it don't have a Recovery Partition.   My main question is: Did it come with a Recovery Partition? It came with some home made Recovery disks so I am good there.  Thanks pcpunk

Answer 1

I already have Recovery discs but I think they were made after the Recovery Partition was deleted.
That's not possible, since the discs are created from that partition. But recovery discs may be ordered from Toshiba here.
The original Recovery Media Will Create Partitions even if they do not already exist?  I have read that W7 WILL do this,...
A generic Windows 7 installation disc, whether plain retail or OEM will not create the recovery partition (as you've discovered). It does create a partition which contains the Recovery Environment (WinRE), but that's another story.
The OEM (Toshiba) creates that partition to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents, which includes all the special drivers, utilities, and applications originally on the disk. Among those things on the hard drive was the recovery partition.
Again, when you restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media, the drive is wiped clean and all the original partitions are restored. That's necessary when the hard drive is replaced.
See the section Recovering the Internal Storage Drive which begins on p. 61 of the User's Guide.
   Satellite L500 Series User’s Guide
Hope that settles the matter.