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Many modern Recovery Partitions are placed on WinRE menu on F8 Advanced Boot Options , which is lost when Win7 in wiped from the HD and not recreated with a reinstall even if it includes the 100mb System Reserved partition which placed WinRE on F8. At that point you can try to restore the hotlink or mount the image file in the partition to restore. Many choose to make the Disks and recover the Recov Partition's disk space.
We have seen plenty of cases here where Recov Partition functionality is lost due to reinstall of OS. It can and does happen.