My mum had a HP and they gave her a rescue disk. This allowed you to set it back to the factory default (in other words re-install Vista). She actually rang HP ( here in UK) and they sent her a disk maybe you have got to do the same? Otherwise buy your own copy of Vista and reformat.

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