Vista Update / Rescue & Recovery Fail

Last year (March 2008), I purchased Lenovo 3000 N200 series laptop (Model: 0769-BWG or TY2BWUK), with Window Vista Home Premium.
Last week, while Window Vista was autoupdating my laptop, it fail to update it. While shutting down it was reverting back changes. I try to let it finish auto-update procedure, but it fail to recover. Finally after waiting for 2 hours, I power off the laptop and try to restart it. To my surpise, it could not load Vista. By using advance boot sequence, i tried to load vista in safe mode (which failed), then I tried to load it using safe mode with DOS command prompt logging... It was stopping at windows/system32/crcdisk.sys, after that it could not progress it. I could not able to load vista... Finally, i tried using repair options available in advance boot sequence (which tried to look at bad sectors in hard disk). It could not find any problem with hard disk.
Finally to go back to original factory condition, I press on Lenovo care button (Priviously I could able to copy my personal file to my external hard disk using dos commond). I tried option, Rescue & Recovery>Full Factory Restore. Again, it did not proceed... It starts the process, clears agreement page, and then ask for Click next to proceed... then it goes ----------- BLANK----------- NO progress on bar... Last message says 'Preparing Hard disk for recover...'. While checking boot log through advance boot sequence>safe mode with dos prompt, it is stopping at disk.sys
Now, I am not getting vista boot options from my C: also.
Is there anyone encouter such problem? I could not see any options available now... otherthen contacting Lenovo support now. Any input will be highly appriciated... Thanks.

guys, there is a new release 4.21, are you talking about it?
god bless ya all, lenovo servers and us. 200mb is a bit high to download 5 times
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Hello and welcome,
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