HP Pavillion A1709N startup failures

Yesterday, when I tried to use my HP Pavillion A1709N PC, Windows wouldn't start up. I proceeded to use the diagnostic cd I had made before the crash last week, and it came back stating that the drive called 'Recovery' had failed the test. next, I tried using the 'Ultimate Boot CD' which I had tried in the past (With my old HP that ran XP and since died), and I was able to get it to run 'Parted Magic' (which was a stripped down version of Linux), but I was unable to figure out how to get the bad drive repaired since I never was able to figure out how to use linux. I tried doing a google search for a vista boot disk, but had no luck. I also tried booting from a Vista 64 bit DVD I made a few years ago, but that relied on the hard drive in question, so I can't get it to repair the drive in any way that I know of. does anyone know how I can fix it? I have no way to get recovery disks made since I made those and lost them years ago before it was my machine. thanks!

See here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/301852-vista-iso-download-create-installation-dvd-usb.html

Thanks, but I've tried running startup repair from a copy of Windows Vista X64 install DVD, and it just says 'attempting repairs... repairing disk errors. this might take over an hour to complete.' when this happens, my computer just sits there. There's no activity whatsoever from the hardware. I also tried running a command prompt to do a Chkdsk on C:\ but that doesn't work either. any suggestions?

You are picking up on a 4 year old thread???? Same computer, same problem?