If you delete the partition and do a "proper" wipe of the disk (takes about 20 hours), I will assure you  nothing will be left on that drive.  However, I am glad you found something that worked for you.

If all you did was abandon the partition and immediately realize your error, it is not hard to resurrect, and can be done without paying $30.

But that's almost never the case.  Usually when people delete the partition, they make the abandoned space part of another partition, such as expanding the main Windows partition to take up that space.  Once you do that, the sectors that used to belong to the restore partition are available for overwriting--and Windows does a lot of overwriting to otherwise free space, what with all the temporary files it is constantly creating and deleting.  Hence, the general rule: when you delete a partition it is seldom recoverable.

The key in your case was that you did not make the abandoned sectors part of the Windows partition and subject them to overwriting.

 

 

Ya I was this close to reallocating the drive and reformatting it to NTFS.  I don't even know why I was in there, but it's a good thing I caught it.  I looked up and down the web, but couldn't find instructions on how to do it manually.  I tried http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/ but did not go through with the recovery because there was a "fatal" message when I ran dsrcheck.  That's when I paid the $30, it was actually one of the cheaper sollutions on the web.