Ultimate Boot CD

I've got corrupt Vista OS with 0xc0000098 error

This laptop was donated to my nonprofit so I do not have original disks. I have tried F12, F11, F8, etc.. but the option to access the recovery never shows - or - anything I try never gets past the Boot Manager error screen. There's nothing filewise I have to save or recover as we just use this to work ob

I burned the UBCD disk and have it in the laptop.

Does the UBCD help lead me to the recovery partition and if so, which utility should I use?

Thank you.

You can try DSRFix, under HDD / Partition Management.

For more info, see http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/fixes.shtml

However, sometimes the recovery partition has simply been deleted by the previous owner, and AFAIK there's no way to bring it back.

Thank you Victor!

Turns out that the previous owner did delete the partition with recovery but found the recovery disks.

Hoping to fix it up this coming week.

Thank you again Victor