How to restore Vista on old Satellite P300?

Sorry this is a long one.
I bought a new P70 to replace my older P300 which came with Vista and now want to restore it to a clean install for the children to use. The problem is that I had partitioned the drive and had been testing the betta and RC1 versions of Windows 7 before it came out and it also had XP, now I can't get to the recovery drive by holding the 0 key and don't have the option to repair on the advanced boot screen when using the F12 key. I know that the Recovery partition is still there because I saw it when using a disk partitioning tool before making changes and I didn't delete it.
After what I have read I am thinking that the hidden drive (EISA Configuration) that holds the BCD, stored the options for both the 0 key and the F12 key menu. I did make backup disks when I originally got the laptop and the disks checked out fine but when I went to use them they were reported as corrupted so the only other option that I had was images that I made with another program but can't boot from the disk that I made and I assume that it is because of the SATA drivers, Win 7 couldn't boot it either till I injected the drivers, just can't remember how I got them in the imaging disk.
So if anybody knows where the the option for the 0 key is stored, and I presume it is in the BCD itself, does anybody know how to get it back or re-write it? The other option that I can think of is to find out how the recovery partition is activated and try to do it another way. My eldest Son has a newer P300, is it possible to copy the BCD and files from his hidden drive to boot mine? The other thing is when restoring from the recovery partition do you need a Windows Product Key or is that already stored on the recovery partition because I don't ever remember seeing one and I don't have one for my new P70 either.
Any ideas?

Thank you for your reply, I was afraid somebody would say something like that.
I did make a backup using the Toshiba backup program and it said that it was done and the disks checked out fine but when I went to use them it reported them as corrupted because it couldn't read them. Luckily I also used True Image Home to do a backup at the same time and have used those images before to restore the laptop but now the boot disk and any new boot disk that I make won't boot the machine, they boot the desktops but not the laptops. Images of all original partitions are there, including the hidden partitions. I don't understand why it worked before and not now.
I can just uninstall everything and take it back that way but preferred to start clean. If only I could get the machine booted with True Image Home then I wouldn't have a problem. I have been thinking of a new OS though.

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