System Recovery Options in Windows 7 (MBP and Parallels)

I realize it is probably debatable (perhaps at best) if this belongs here but I have borked my Windows 7 installation on my MacBookPro running Snow Leopard and I now see this after opening Parallels and either starting or shutting down the virtual machine:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15285654/Screen%20shot%202011-11-25%20at%2011.13.16%20AM .png
I am trying to follow some system recovery recommendations and I can't quite figure out if I need to hold down "Fn + F8" upon a Restart of the Virtual Machine - or if I should put the install Disk in and then somehow /boot/ to the CD Rom or what:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options -in-Windows-7
If anyone has any advice I'd love to fix this problem without a full re-install of Win 7.
Thanks.

Thanks - but I can't seem to install it! Even in compatibility mode. I get an error box telling me to check nothing else is running (...), and a message saying it has encountered error code -6003.
Could this have something to do with me running Windows 7 x64?
Thank you...

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I hope this problem will be solved as much as possible. thank you in advance. and i also don't know what model of this Lenovo all-in-one PC is. but i think this is 3318F9U, and its i forgot its BIOS version, and i don't know how to access it. and also, i'm not sure if there's a preloaded Superfish in this all-in-one PC, maybe the vulnerability started it. because i recently read an article regarding the Superfish's vulnerability.

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Let me get this clear - you're running Windows 7 under Parallels 8 and want to uninstall both?
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This is my first post here, so please forgive me if I'm not too used to the forum habits. I've been checking the discussions before, but haven't been able to find anything that matched my case...
Let me explain it to you, so that hopefully somebody knows the solution and can share it with me...
I had Mac OS X (10.6) installed in my MacBookPro.
I had also installed Windows XP with Bootcamp in a different partition.
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