Windows Vista / 7 Recovery manager installer?

I have a TX2500. Recently, the OS was corrupted warranting a format and reinstall.
Since I was unable to enter Windows to do this, I was unable to restore from the recovery manager. F11 doesn't work.
I don't have the ability to create a recovery disk, or USB drive, because I am unable to get into windows.
What I have been able to do:
reinstall a different OS (windows 7) without a product key for the purpose of troubleshooting only.
What I need to do:
Install the HP Recovery manager into windows 7 in order to a) run recovery from my recovery partition, or b) create a recovery disk / USB.
I am absolutely baffled that the recovery partition is not a stand alone installation, and instead requires a program to be installed and run from a functioning windows installation.
In order to install windows again, I need the recovery manager. In order to get the recovery manager, I apparantly have to reinstall windows.
After scouring the site, I've found a dozen references from "hp employees" to recovery manager patches. These do not help me, because I no longer have recovery manager.
All I need is the full installation for Windows 7 recovery manager, or some other way to access this apparantly useless lump of wasted hard drive space known as the "HP_RECOVERY" partition.

Thanks for the download.
Well, I've tried that download every way I could think of on multiple computers. All that ever happens is the file is unpacked, a "power recover" icon shows up on the taskbar (in the running programs section) for several seconds, then disappears. When running the installer directly from the unpacked files, the same thing happens.
I've tried this most recently on a clean format / install, then unpack / run the file, then restart when it finishes. Nothing appears under installed programs, nothing comes up when searching for it.
Each of the computers I've tried this on is running Windows 7. One of them is an identical laptop with the same recovery partition that was formatted and had Windows 7 installed on it a while ago. The only HP software it has are the drivers.
I don't have any versions of vista lying around, other than the inaccessible data in the recovery partition. I'd have to dig around a bit to find an old version of XP to try that, but I really haven't had time to do that recently. Ideally I would like to be able to install the HP Recovery Manager in windows 7, and use it to a) restore the stock version of vista on the laptop, or b) create a backup disk, and use that to install the stock version of vista to the laptop. The reason I can't just leave windows 7 on the laptop is because it's the installer for another computer, and I don't have a license for it.
Can you think of any other installers that work to put the recovery manager on a windows 7 computer?

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