13thmonkey :
well leave it alone then.
True and good advice. Since this is the recovery partition, just leave it alone. You really should do nothing to it. Also, HP likely bundles an app to convert your recovery partition into recovery disks. If so, you should run the program and make some backup disks. Doing so will alllow you to have the option to do away with the recovery partition and re-use that portion of your HDD as storage space.
Good luck!