How to recover a Corrupt recovery partition

The hard disk on my T500 crashed and the recovery partition is corrupted as well. I bought this machine in the US but now I have moved to Europe. Can someone suggest a solution to get my Windows Vista Ultimate back on this machine. I do not have any installation media and am not able to find who sells it. Of course, my OS is a genuine.
Please help me.

what is the model number of your T500? You would need a recovery media for this.
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