Someone wiped out Vista!

You can laugh at this one. I did for quite a while too.
A neighbor whom I otherwise think to be an intelligent person came to me with a problem. The "system would not do anything"! It actually does a little bit, just what it finds in segment zero. It can't find Windows. I'm thinking of trying an FDISK /MBR. Is that still in Vista? And is that a good avenue to try? That will not fix the problem on the D:\ drive of course.
As I looked into the problem, I could only operate in DOS which could indicate HDD is OK. I looked at partition D:\ and instead of recovery, it's filled with pictures JPEGs! I asked my friend who put the photos on D:\ and she had no idea and she doesn't have the background to even look at Drive D:\ So there's no recovery there! When I asked for recovery disks, she didn't know what that was and doesn't remember getting anything from HP when she bought the system.
I have an older HP running Vista, but it has some serious monitor problems. I could perhaps feel my way thru making a recovery disk on my older HP Vista system if someone could provide a detailed procedure for making one. Does this require valid recovery inforation in D:\? I do that all the time on my new Windows7 system. I know that when I try to run that on her system, it will of course want to go thru MS to validate the Windows Key. Making a recovery disk on my older Vista system should result in the key from my system and MS trying to validate to her system and then have a massive failure??!! If I can create a recovery on a CD/DVD, is there something in that recovery that will rebuild C:\Windows AND the D:\ drive with a full recovery???
I have a spare HDD that is the same make, model and GB's; WD 250GB. Will HP provide recovery disks at a modest price?
Her system is 32-bit hardware and software as is my older HP Vista system.
Thanks Chris C

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Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have looked into your issue HP Notebook and issues with Vista. You could load any Windows Vista disk as long as it is the same as on the Notebook. Here is a document on obtaining recovery discs for your neighbours Notebook.
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[What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X)|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564]
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4) Run the uninstaller application. Adobe says, "Adobe recommends that you restart your computer before you install a different version of the player."
5) Run the installer application from the .dmg file you got from the second download.
6) Use Disk Utility to repair permissions on your computer. this is important when installing anything from Adobe.
7) Restart your computer.
Notes:
Adobe installs things all over your computer. Simply dragging a file or two to the trash won't ensure you have uninstalled all old file components.
Comments about Flash and Shockwave. [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2769507]
Flash player 11.1 hack on PowerPC - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16990862
Installing last version of Adobe Flash for PPC Mac - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2760627 Also read: [http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13159407#13159407] for help with downloading for PPC Macs since Adobe no longer makes this easy.

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