T500 Recovering to Factory Default.

I had a T500 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I ran the Recover system to factory set but it hung at some point during the process. I gave it a hard shutdown and when i restarted, it gave me a balck screen with /windows/system32/winload.exe missing or corrupt. It would not go beyond that point. I did not make the Recovery Disks before attempting this process. Later I installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on my system. I can still see the LENOVO_RECOVERY and the SYSTEM_DRV drives and the disk management shows them as Primary and Healthy.
Is it possible to go back to my factory default settings?

Locate and replace the corrupt file. You're jumping the gun doing a reinstall which wipes all your existing apps, configuration, & Data.
Fix it, if necessary get the file off another system. There are usually backups of major files in other areas of the drive.
Boot into safe mode if you're able.
Run SFC /scannow
T520 Model 4239 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
Intel Sandy Bridge & Nvidia NVS 4200M graphics Intel N 6300 Wi-Fi adapter
Windows 7 Home Prem - 64bit w/8GB DDR3

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