How can i copy the recovery partition to a usb drive? Or better, download the laptop's recovery?

[duckers]

I upgraded my GF's laptop with an ssd since the hdd was beyond slow. So i tried to make a partition backup of the recovery partition, but i don't think that will work

So how can i move the recovery normally from the recovery partition from the hdd to the usb drive i'm using?

Or where can i download the recovery?

The laptop is a HP G75 120so (wrote the model as lower case letters to easily see what's numbers and what's letters)

[erico]

The recovery manager is not a downloadable product. 

If she has the usb recovery flash drive or disk set that she should have made by this time there is no need for the recovery partition to be backed up.  Ask her about it.  

If she never made either one, then put the original hard disk back in the notebook and run the HP Recovery Media creator utility. 

[WAWood]

duckers

From your comments, since you apparently did not copy the Recovery partition from the HDD to the new SDD, you now want to copy it.  My guess is that the SSD is smaller (probably a LOT smaller) than the HDD in terms of capacity, right?

If that is the case, you're wasting your time.  The HP Recovery function will only work if the new drive is the same size or larger than the original HDD because the first thing the recovery does is format the drive and attempt to recreate the original partitions, and since the SDD is too small, that function will fail.

If you want the ability to do a full recovery, the better approach now is to use a third-party imaging/restoration application known as Macrium Reflect (MR).

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 10 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.  Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry.  This allows you then to boot into WinPE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck

[duckers]

First time i cloned the hdd i took with the recovery of 12GB, but the recovery failed apparently since the OS is OEM and did not accept to be recovered through another media.

So i cloned the entire hdd to my external hdd as a backup, and intend to only recover the formatted windows partition to the ssd each time she wants it formatted (atleast until she can afford a new one as the old one works just fine)