Recovery Vista system on the partition BACK D Dell laptop?

My boss PLOPPED his laptop at home, a Dell Inspiron with Vista, on my desk and said, "he's dead, set." He did not apparently come with system recovery discs, and it's never a set. It's blue screen, the only way I could get it to boot is to insert an old Dell/Windows XP cd. I started to reformat the C drive to load XP, then remember "Oh no, it's a Vista machine!," I did not take the last step and load XP on drive C. I managed to get to the prompt of the drive D, where I can see what I think are the original Vista recovery files, but I don't know how what to do to make them run. F8 and F11 do not work. I'm not afraid to enter commands BACK of D, I don't know what to enter. Help, please.

Hello

link below has the opinion of dall to reinstall vista from the recovery partitiion

http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?c=AP&l=en&s=Gen&docid=DSN_336966&isLegacy=true

If that doesn't work contact dell

It's their recovery process not microsofts

Dell support

http://supportapj.Dell.com/support/topics/topic.aspx/AP/shared/support/en/country_selector?c=AP&l=en&s=Gen&redirect=1

Dell support forums

http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/default.aspx

You can also contact dell and ask them to send you recovery disks vista to reinstall the dos operating system as it was when you bought it

they do it for a nominal cost of $

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