Cant access my recovery partition. on vista

Hello, hopefully someone can help me figure this out.

I recently boughtgot a sony vaio vgn-fz180E from a friend of mine who upgraded to a newer pc.

problem is he downloaded a bunch of things to it and now it is clutterd with a bunch of junk.. i have tried to preform a C: drive restore from the vaio recovery center.

when i start it up it asks again "are you sure" i click yes and the computer starts to reboot and then it just loads back into windows vista. (home premium 32bit).

so then i tried to create the recovery disks from the recovery center and after the disks are made i put the 1st disk in and shut down the cpu for a min or two then turn it on. then i get

CDBOOT: Couldn't find BOOTMGR.

then windows again starts normally.

so last option i tried to use the F10 function and it goes to a screen that says,

EDIT Windows boot Options for: windows vista home premium (recovered)

PATH: \windows\system32\winload.exe

partition: 2
hard disk: 58ccd8e1

then i hit enter and windows starts normally.

and now i have ni idea what to do.

any help would be awesome and thanks in advance.


P.S. my friend called while i was posting this and i asked him if he had created and recovery disks when he first booted up the computer like it tells him to and of course he said no. and i also found out he had the motherboard replaced a while back, not sure if that makes a difference but though i would put it here just incase.

 

Sounds like the recovery disks are hosed... Did the burn process complete without errors? Are you able to boot from the optical drive using some other bootable CD?