HP Pavilion [Dv600/Dv6​700] Recover The Recovery Partition Using Undelete Software

Hey what's up,
My mum bought a used HP Pavilion Dv600/Dv6700 from a friend at work. It came pre-loaded with Windows Vista installed. I wanted to load and restore a backup of her previous laptops operating system which is Windows XP but I'm having difficulties sourcing drivers etc.
I'm not all that familiar with laptops but I've not experinced these troubles before. My dad's laptop came preloaded with windows Vista but he took it into a shop to get windows xp loaded onto it. It screwed up several months later and I did a clean install of XP and had no problems with drivers is this just related to HP or Laptops in general ?
I've looked at the step by step guide on downgrading & upgrading hp notebooks but I don't have the recovery partition to copy my drivers. Can I use software like Supergrub to recover the deleted partition or can I use WIndows Vista 32Bit install disc on a 64bit AMD processor ? It says it supports HP Pavilion dv6700 but read HP release 3 or 4 different discs for similar versions with different chipsets, gpu & processors..
Is it easyier if I just install a fresh copy of Windows 7 to avoid some incapablitys of windows xp. Thanks
Some additonal information if this helps:
Product: HP Pavilion dv6700
s/n: CNF8282WPH
p/n: FF751EA#ABU
model: dv6810em
It's AMD Turion-x2 64bit processor. Not sure which copy of Vista it came with.. I have since done a fresh install of windows xp. I had no network adapters in device manager when I recovered from Acronis backup so I installed fresh and still no network adapters.. is this due to the missing device drivers ?

The chipset drivers  install Ethernet, SMBus, SATARAID and more>Nvidia chipset, here
Nvidia Video graphics drivers GeForce Release 179.48, here
Broadcom Wireless,  here
MS UAA must be installed before Audio.
MS UAA , or MS UAA for XP SP3, here
Conexant High-Definition SmartAudio 221 Driver  here
Unzip to a folder..use Device Manager,right click "Audio Device on HD",choose Update driver,
Say No to connect, choose Install from a list or specific location,
Select Don't Search, I will choose the driver to install,
For the Hardware Type select 'Show All Devices'
Remove the check from "Show Compatible Hardware" and click on "Have Disk".
Next...browse to the unzipped folder and choose the "WiSVHe5.inf".
Ignore XP when it complains, Reboot.
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