I know this will see possibly stupid CherylG, but if the recovery disks are so important I don't know why they don't make a bigger issue of it. They could have a message flashed on the screen at the time of the first boot when new saying MAKE YOUR RECOVERY DISKS NOW! I thought, as sure many do, that the recovery partition was all that I needed and that recovery disks were a thing way in the past.
Now isn't there a place, if I give my specific machine, there can be the program downloaded that would make or duplicate what those recovery disks would be even now? You'd think that there would be enough call for them to be located somewhere on HP's websites.
Thanks CherylG for your help! Jack ":-\\