Looks like I’m not the only one who can’t get the F11 key to work after a Vista downgrade to XP.

I found a workaround here

Thanks to Vinh Pham for his post!

I know how to activate if F11 does not help to start recovery.

If U can access to START > Control Panel > Administrative tools or shorter way:

START > run > compmgmt.msc and press enter

then Disk management

Find which is recovery partition

Make Mark partition as Active

Then restart pc.

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