OneKey Recovery broke after reinstall with retail DVD

So I know this has been an issue (After reading tons of posts after the fact...) but couldnt find a straight clear resolution for my situation or I missed it somehow.
Anyway got a G530/3000 4446-23U.
Came with Vista Home Basic and the OKR button thing.
I booted off a DVD of vista and saw it had 3 partitions. 0, 1, 2.
I saw 0 & 2 was some factory type stuff and 1 was windows. So I erased 1 and created new one and had vista ultimate install.
Well of course this broke OKR button.
I didnt know this would happen, I figured it was like the dells and what not, so long as I didnt erase the other partitions I was safe... HA teach me...
Anyway I have tried to get this to boot back up to OKR and no joy. It boots to vista if I press the key. I have read that I guess the MBR got messed up and it also modified some files on that drive?
Anyway I tried setting 0 (the OKR partition) to 12 as it was 7 for the partition type and also set it to boot but no joy. Same results. 12 just seems to hide it from windows.
Anyway I found on that other partition it has two WIM files. One is drive c and one is drive s (OKR drive).
I mounted those and tried to copy of the bootmgr and other boot files from the image because the vista install modified it and still no joy.
So it seems they provide us with the original files but no simple way to restore them. The next thing is why even with original files wont it boot right? is something other than boot, and type 12 wrong with the partition?
Also one other wrench to toss in this mess is I have flashed the bios. it came with 1.05 I think, I put 1.15 on from lenovo site as it said it fixed a problem with sleep, so i figured flash it to save myself trouble later. Well that bios had a bug or was not for our exact laptop even though it said 530... I have now found some 1.07 bios that seems to not have the bug, but I guess its also possible it changed something too? It is for a MT 4446. but again it seems to run best.
Anyway any help on the OKR would be great.
I have not erased or toucheed the two factory partitions, just windows one was erased and re-made. Their is also those two image files I can take files out of if I need to restore anything, just cant seem to get her to boot to it.

okr doesn't work due to you made changes on volumes.
you need to order recovery discs from lenovo or ship it to back to reset the hdd its default. then okr will work.

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