There is no recovery partition. That's why my confusion. I tried to use recovery drive from the control panel and copy the recovery drive the pc check box is grayed out. then I get message that some files are missing after clicking next.
when tried the other thing to create a system image. That wants 310 GB. I know I have not deleted that partition. I had been putting off making the recovery discs though.
Only stuff on this pc is online games and a few clips of game play.