"Boot Manager failed to find OS loader" - Windows XP

Question

Hello, I'm new in this community.
That being said, I have a problem with my Thinkpad SL410. Two nights ago I shut down my laptop. It was working fine at that point. I clicked on shut down, but I think it went to "update and shut down". BAD idea, since now, its stuck on a loop.
When I try and boot up the laptop, it only brings me to R&R4. Then, after it scans and tries to "fix" the problem, it gives me a message. Unfortunately, the message is in chinese since I bought this laptop in china, so with my rough translation skills, I was able to determine that "Boot Manager failed to find OS loader".
You would think that that would be easy to fix. I go grab a windows recovery ISO, and put it onto my bootable USB. Problem is, R&R is almost getting in the way of recovery console. When I boot from the usb, there is a black screen with the message "To boot rescue and recovery environment, press f11". I have tried to press f11 and I have tried to wait, but no matter what, it takes me to the thinkvantage rescue and recovery, as opposed to the windows console.
Essentially, I cannot access the console to type in:
-fixboot
-fixmbr
I have painstakingly translated much of the R&R page (The one that gives you 3 options; restore, backup, reset to factory settings). I don't think there is a way to get to recovery console via that rescue and recovery page. So I do what is most logical. I try and restore to a backup. Technology doesn't seem to like me because after waiting for 30 mins, its at 93% done and there is a message saying something along the lines of "C: doesnt have enough space".
Great. What other options do I have? I know the hard drive isn't corrupted and my files are still there, since going into "backup" shows me all the files (pictures, documents, etc...). I can't back them all up and factory reset since not only would it take forever, but it would take up wayy too many gigs of space, and I simply can't get my hands on a massive storage system atm.
This is very frustrating since I only started using this computer after my dell laptop had a hard drive failure. It's a pain trying to get through dell support, only to have my situation a whole lot  more complicated since it was a gift from china, and already registered to someone. Then a perfectly good working computer fails on me again, and this time I can't analyze the problem correctly since the computer is in chinese.
TL;DR 
"Boot manager failed to find OS loader error. When I try booting from Windows XP ISO, R&R gets in the way. I also can't do a restore to backup since my C drive apparently doesn't have enough space.

Answer 1

Hi dizscez, welcome to the forums,
I can't promise, but something which has worked for me in similar situations is explained in the following KB article. Basically you would be doing the same as running a system restore to a previous point under Windows
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-XP-and-Vista-discussion/XP-System-Restore-When-Normal-And-Safe-M...
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