How do I create Recovery Disks for my HP laptop using an external DVD/CD ROM Drive?

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I have an HP Pavilion dv5000. I want to create recovery disks for it using an external DVD/CD ROM drive since my built in DVD/CD ROM drive is already broken. Every time I start the Recovery CD Creator program, it asks me to insert DVD on the built in drive and not the external drive. What can I do about this? Thanks!