Is my Recovery Flash Drive going to be corrupted, too?

Hi.  A nasty computer virus recently infected my HP Pavillion g7-1338dx which operates Windows 7 Premium Home Edition. This happened when my free trial anti-virus software expired without any countdown or warning leaving me unprotected while online and I immediately got infected. 
I thought I had conquered it but it seems to have corrupted my OS.  I cannot open Windows Security Center, use the firewall, update my drivers, and I am even denied access to my local drive. 
I would like to use recovery to revert back to an out-of-box state.  I am a bit of a computer novice (but learning quickly due to this problem) and I wish I had created disks the day I bought the computer.  Out of ignorance, I did not.
I created a recovery image on a USB flash drive this evening.  My intention was to file that away in case of future emergencies.  After creating the image on the flash drive, I attempted to use F11 to perform recovery by accessing the partioned part of the hard drive. The result was a blue screen telling me that my attempt failed because the files were either absent or corrupt.
So, this leads me to my question. If I cannot use F11 to perform this task because the files are corrupt, what about this flash drive I just created?   Will it also contain corrupt files? Is my only option ordering disks from HP at this point?  Would scanning the flash drive with my Kaspersky do any good? 
Sorry for the long post.  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

Hi,
There's no way of knowing for sure if the recovery files on the flash drive are Ok or not, although as the recovery partition ( from which the flash drive files are created ) is corrupt, I would tend to assume the flash drive may well be affected.  If this is the case, scanning the flash drive may well remove Malware, but it's still more than likely that the recovery process will fail if the files on the flash drive have been altered or corrupted in any way.
There are Two main options I'd suggest.
The first, as you mention yourself, would be to order a replacement set of Recovery Discs from HP.
The second is as follows.
Before trying the following, make sure you can still read the Activation key on your Windows COA label ( 5 blocks of 5 alpha/numeric sets ).
You can create an installation disc yourself using another PC - just download the correct Disc Image ( this must be the exact same version that originally came with your notebook ) from the link below and use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO correctly to a blank DVD - a guide on using ImgBurn to write an ISO to a disc is Here.  These Images are clean and from a well-respected source, however there are only limited versions available.
Windows-7 sp1-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit
Use the disc to perform the installation, enter the Windows activation key found on the COA Label when requested and when the installation has completed, use the 'Phone Method' detailed in the link below to activate the OS - this method supported by Microsoft and is popular with people who just want a clean installation of Windows 7 without the additional software load normally bundled with OEM installations.
http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/how-to-activate-windows-7-by-phone.aspx
Any additional drivers you may need can be found Here.
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