Dear sir, i have the HP pavilion dv6000 windows vista , and as u know it comes with its recovery partion i partitioned the C: partion into two and with the comupter managment shrink option and i tried to install windows XP , i thought it will be may a dual boot but the vista was corrupted and the only windows XP is working i installed widows vista home again in the c: partion and installed the HP Recover manager Note: the recovery manager untoched when i try to recover the system to its default manufacture it keep with HP recovery manager the ,essage came the recovery partiotion is not exist while its there how to force the HP recovery manager to see this partion or how to recover back the default operating system and drivs from it sorry for long subject
Have a look in disk management and check your partitions are in correct order i,e the way they were originally.
I experienced the issue when F11 would not work (used for recovery) This was due to the recovery partition NOT being marked as active Use ie Hirem's Boot CD & "Mark as Active" sebus
I would look for an original Vista dvd instead of using the recovery manager. The recovery manager will probably install lots of junk anyway like trial Office, trial antivirus, useless utilities, etc. Copy anything you need to save off the Vista partition, boot off the Vista dvd, and install Vista to that partition reformatting it at the same time. If you have an external drive you can backup anything important from all partitions first to be safe.