How to access recovery partition

hi,
i have a toshiba satellite L-305 S5919 laptop. i want to reinstall vista in my laptop. but i am not able to access the recovery partition. while booting it is not showing the recovery partition. but when i take the computer disk management it is showing a primary partition with 7 GB size. i suppose that is the windows vista recovery partition. can u help me in accessing that recovery partition and restoring to factory settings.
regards,
abt

Satellite L305-S5919
See the section titled Hard Drive Recovery Utilities, which begins on p. 60 of your User's Guide. .
Satellite L300 Series User's Guide
If you can't reach the recovery partition during startup, burn the recovery media.
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