Recovery partition and upgrade fron Win2K to XP on a T30

[motero99]

I have a T30 (2366-41U) that came with Win2K. I have the disks for that. I did a clean install a year ago with XP. Now due to some system crashes, the OS won't reboot. Before I re-install, is there a way to create the recovery partition with XP? If this crashes again in an unrecoverable way (won't boot to safe system), it would save a lot of time over a re-build. Any ideas?