Can't get to rescue and recovery

Okay I have been making some progress.  
I received this lenovo W500 wtih win7 pro 64 bit on a 320 GB SATA drive.  I wanted to put an 256 GB SSD drive in so I created a rescue disk then backed up the partitions to my NAS.  Then pulled the drive and tried to resize the partitions with powerquest partition magic on my XP workstation.  Then this is were my problems started because when I tried to install the 320 GB drive back in the lenovo I had missing operating system error.  So I tried to restore my backups and those failed to.
Here it is a week later and I am now able to boot into the 320 GB win 7 partition but it blue screens on me.  This is the most progress I have made so far though.  There is a lenovo repair and recover partition still on the 320 GB drive, but at boot I hit F11 and can't get access to it.
Help me please get these machine running .......
W500 with installation of solidworks

Install rnr 4.5   This will install the standalone RNR.  It will NOT be a separate partition.  If will reside on the C drive along with windows. It will NOT have the factory recovery on it.  The factory recovery was in your Lenovo_recovery partition. It will support RESCUE, ie restore from backup.
Call the support center and order a PRODUCT Recovery disc set from them.  If you are under warranty, they should not charge you.  Just tell them you waxed the HDD accidentally. If you dont need the factory install, at this time, just keep them handy.
BTW, did you erase the Lenovo recovery partition. If you did not, MAYBE an rnr install will find the recovery (factory) partition and use it. If it DOES find it you will see 2 items. (1) RNR on the windows platform will show a CREATE product recovery disc option (2) RNR standalone will also show a restore to factory option. 

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    Step One: Install windows
    Step Two: run system update
    Step Three: Your done (optionally have a beer and relax)
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    Have you tried running a backup with your virus scanner / internet security software turned off? Sometimes these software can "hang" on files or folders with the intent to protect them and therefore prevent them being read
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    You can only go one file/folder at a time. But for ALL 3,000+ music files in F:\Users\Ryan\Music\iTunes.... I only  had to unhide Users, Ryan, and Music so it wasn't so bad.
    Message Edited by manunited518 on 12-24-2008 09:22 PM

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