Acer laptop recovery help

[Guest]

Hi friends
i used to reinstall my system from window recovery partition by pressing <Alt> <F10> but now it no longer works.My hidden partition is still exsist in my hard disk. Can anyone show me how to reinstall in other way.
thanks

 

[buwish]

Is the partition still full? If not, the data is gone and you'll probably have to get your hands on a Vista DVD.