My brothers laptop recently was turned off incorrectly by him, and the next time he booted it up he recieved an error stating that windows needed to repair itself. After clicking this repair option the laptop went into the recovery console but was unable to repair, stating the administrator must be contacted. Once in safe mode it doesn't even allow to boot into windows before the repair screen comes up, the OS is by all means screwed. Here's the bad thing though, we did not create a recovery CD nor did the laptop come with one! Does this mean we need to purchase another copy of Vista?

Thanks guys