restore problem

Hi all

I am a partially blind person and am trying vista as a test (for me
and any other friends who are blind or partially blind.) I know there
is not screen reader for vista yet, but since I have enough sight to see
it and work with it without one I thought I would (for now) give it a
look at.

Now I want to restore this pc back before I installed vista. I
tried my ghost image and it gave me a message and would not work (sorry
forgot what message said) and I tried the restore disks that came with
the pc and they would not work. I am guess it is a bootloader problem.
What do I need to do to get it back to normal.

This is an Acer Aspire T135 and has 3 partitions. One for
restoreing the system, the other is a C partition and a D partition.
Apparently when I got this machine they made it this way.

Any help would be appreciated so if I have this problem I can get it
back up and if anyone else who tries vista has this problem I can tell
them what to do

thanks in advance