Need Serious Help

When I bought my computer, it came with windows vista x64 home premium, but when windows 7 came along I decided to upgrade. I know it's stupid to make a beta your main OS, but I didn't know what i was doing. Now my beta is about to expire, and I wnted to restore my original vista, but surpirse surprise I discover that my pc didn't come w/ a recovery disc. Instead, I partitioned my HD (250 gb) into 2 partitions.

HD C: -> Main C: and D:

I put all my media onto D, downloaded a copy of Vista, created a disc, and tried to install it onto C:. didn't load the first two times, but after the third boot attempt the disc worked. After the installer completed, it restarted. Fine so far, but when it came to the boot menu, I was greeted by 2 partitions.

Windows Vista
Windows Vista

I determined logically that the first one was probably the correct one, so I clikc that one. After the "safe mode" screen, I got to disk check, and so my troubles began. After 1.5 hours disk check said it was at 86%, and then it started the orphan file thing. It kept going on and on and on for the next 4hours until I realized it was useless. I restarted the machine with a hard reset and tried to install vista again, but all that did was create a 3rd partition. That time diskcheck didn't work because it said the HD had problems.

I tried using the recovery tool, and it said that I had some start-up problems and that it would restart and fix them. This made it even worse. Here's what my boot manager looks like now:

MS Windows Vista
MS Windows Vista
MS Windows Vista
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (recovered)

Everything I click gives me the same response

Windows Failed to Start

file: \windows.Vista\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0x00000098

Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing of corrupt


What should I do? And if my HD is truly corrupt, will my partition (D be saved?

is there any other way?

Ok I tried doing that, but when I boot the f11 won't work. These are the two options I have to fix my PC. PLease tell me which one is better.

1) There is a partition called RECOVERY E: that came with my machine that I have not tampered with at all. I think that by using the CMD option from the vista disc repair, I could access this and set my pc back to factory settings

2) I know that you can download a recovery disc from the internet and use it to restore your system. I'm think of doing this also.

PLease tell me which one will work.