Problems booting into windows7 recovery partition

Hi, i have this new presario cq56-110sa, wins7 home premium bought some months back.
i installed wins vista deleting the wins 7 partition but the recovery partition is still intact.
now i intend recovering wins7 using the sys recovery partition without success.
upon pressing f11 and showing me booting to recovery partition, the system ended booting into vista .
pleaase help, thanks

hi, can i ask a few questions?
1) How did you install your Vista OS? that's a retail version right?
2) how did you know that the Windows 7 OS is the one still the partition? Coz if it recovered back to vista that means vista is the one on the recovery partition
3) where you able to create RCD's when you were still running Windows 7?
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