HP Recovery Manager Help Needed!!!

Alright, I just wasted my night screwing around with my sister in laws notebook.


Its an HP Pavillion dv6000 running Vista Home Premium.
I can't for the life of me get thing BS Recovery Partition crap to load.
Everythign I've read says push f11 during post.
Well I've done that, and every variation of that for the last hour.
I see the partition, I see its got 6gigs of stuff on it, I just can't get the utility to load.

If anyone has any insight as to how to do this, I'm all ears.
If someone can get me the recovery software to install on the OS (its been removed), I'd be greatful.


( I won't go off on a rant on to how rediculous this process is, and that not offering the recovery software from the website is an abomination, or that when you spend $2,000 on a computer, they should go the extra mile and give you a $1.00 DVD with the software on it....)

Anything anyone can do is great, thanks.