I cant find the recovery HD after erasing and reformatting my 2009 intel imac

Hi All .
Ive spent hours readng through many discussions on the subject but no avail in my problem.
I have an old intel based 2009 iMac , I erased the hard drive through disk utility so I could restore to factory settings.
Then i couldnt find the hard drive or the recovey HD,
I used the old iMac in target Mode on a newer 2011 27" iMac running 10.8.4 and can see the hard drive, so i verified and repaired disk from there.
Then when i turned on the older imac it asked for firmware password.
no chance i could remember as its been a long time since i used.
found a 15" ,Macbook Pro 10.6.3 installation disk and managed to get it to see it after holding the option key at startup .
I noticed though the Macintosh HD and the recovery HD werent there and just the osx 10.6.3 nstallation disc.
so i choose the disc and it gets me to the stage of installing when it goves the error " Mac os X cant be installed on this computer.
gives me the option to restore from time machine backups but all are incompatible as are from different models.
i can get to disk utility but cant do anything from there.
How can i get the recovery hd to be shown again after startup and option key ????
PLEASE HELP

Hi, Where were you booted from to use Disk Utility? Sounds like it wasn't the Restore partition, & you erased the whole Drive instead of just the OSX partition!???
You'll have to use the App Store, look for prchases, re-download 10.8 & install it in Target mode.
found a 15" ,Macbook Pro 10.6.3 installation disk
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