HP Laptop froze during re-sizing partition, wont boot windows

[beneboi]

Tonight I decided to install Vista, that in itself is probably something i really shouldnt have done, but I'll start from the beginning.
I have an HP dv5139us with a 120gb hd that comes factory partitioned with 15gb set to recovery stuff. A few weeks ago I burned backup dvds and used Partition Magic to format the smaller partition to use as storage for work files. Tonight i planned on resizing the partition to 40 gb to install vista on, PM told me it needed to restart the comp to re-size a primary partition, so i let it restart, confirmed that it was resizing and went to take a nap. I woke up 30 mins later and noticed that the task was at 47% complete and went to get something to eat, I returned 2 hours later and the comp was still hung at 47%, the hd activity led was fully lit, but there was no other indication (hd noise, fan) that it was actually doing anything. I allowed it to run for another hour with no results so I hard restarted the laptop. Now it wont boot into windows and simply blue screens and restarts at any attempt to run windows (safe mode, last good config...)
First thing i tried was recovery using the dvds i had created, but they wont boot. I have used them before and they worked so im not sure what the problem is, instead of displaying the "press any key to boot from cd" message, it displays a blinking cursor and i can hear the drive reading the dvd, then it just tries to boot into windows after 30 seconds or so.
I tried running the hd self test in bios but it said everything was fine.
Im at wits end and I have valuable files on that hd that i need for work, I dont own an external enclosure to plug it into my desktop. Please, any help is greatly appreciated.

edit:
I made a bootdisk using the demo of Acronis disc director and ive discovered the problem, since it froze during re-sizing, it split some of my windows files onto a new partition that i guess it made while resizing, i need to know if theres a way to copy files over a lan using command prompt, and if so where can i get the images to make a bootcd that include the proper drivers

[charleski]

i need to know if theres a way to copy files over a lan using command prompt, and if so where can i get the images to make a bootcd that include the proper drivers

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