HP Cloud Recovery Tool vs recovery partition

[Mike_DSM]

I'm wondering why my newish HP laptop has a 731MB recovery partition, yet all of my documentation says to download and use the HP Cloud Recovery tool.  I tried typing HP Recovery Manager into the Start menu as suggested in an old post by @Max3Aj but it produces only web results, so I assume that the app is not installed on my machine.

Any ideas as to why HP created the recovery partition and how to access it?

[Venom21 · Accepted solution]

That ,731mb is likely a tiny Windows‑RE (Windows Recovery Environment) tools partition. You likely need to recreate create recovery partition for future. As you need laptop should be fully in perfect condition. HP Cloud Recovery is HP’s way of letting you reinstall Windows + drivers + bloatware later if you mess up the system, not something you need to run on a fresh machine. Check this for more info if needed- https://youtu.be/xmtXOU40vxk?si=1hk5N66gvDUFxsNf

[Mike_DSM]

Thank you. That makes sense. I see you've also replied to my other post, so I'll say more there.