How to restore original OS?

I got an old 3000 C200 laptop. It came with Vista Home Premium but as I needed to run old DOS programs, I installed WinXP PRO instead. I didn't touch the service partition and now when I look on the disk management window, I can see two partitions: ServiceV002 = ~6GB and C: = ~70GB
I don't need to run DOS programs anymore and decided to roll back to the original image of the OS with Vista. To do that, I press the LENOVO CARE button while BIOS loads. On the menu that comes up I choose the "restore option" (F11) and.... After a few seconds of black screen, regular WinXP boots up
Why is that? How do I get to the restore application?

From lenovo (they might charge you a small fee), another x220 owner that created the recovery media, from a lenovo certified repair center (they will have recovery media available).
Currently own: X220T, X201, X200, T61 X2, X61T X3

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