Trying to install Mavericks, but says it cant due to recovery not being installed

I have downloaded Mavericks on my wifes MAC BOOK PRO, and it wont load as it says that it cant find "recovery". I downloaded, and installed Mavericks on my 2009 MacBook without any problems.
Any help and or hints would be most welcome.

You can't do an erase/install from a Time Machine disk because it uses the very Recovery Partition on the computer that is missing. To get this put back, requires booting externally, erasing the offending OS and running the installer from there.
I'm surprised the installer wont run because people with Snow Leopard do not have such a Recovery Partition and they can upgrade.
Here is one route and I wish it was simpler.
1. Make sure the MBP backup on Time Machine is up-to-date.
2. Re-partition the Time Machine disk to make a small new one of about 80Gb or so.
3. Attach the disk to the MacBook and boot into the MacBook. Download the installer again. (Save a copy before running it).
4. Install Mavericks onto the new partition, without any data transfer, except to copy over the installer.
(You could just clone your MacBook using Carbon Copy Cloner, if you have it. It would be good backup anyway)
5. Shutdown the MacBook and move the disk to the MBP, boot into the new partition.
6. Go to Disk Utility and erase the MBP disk. Run Verify disk.
7. Running the installer, it will ask where to install Mavericks and you need to click to show a list of disks. Choose the MBP and go from there. At the point it asks to transfer data. Select the Time Machine partition and use that to get your wife's user account.
Heck that is complicated!

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