Hi - I have a Asus X51L Laptop. I am having a problem with the recovery more. Now when I boot up the machine it says : "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
When i put in Recovery DVD and press any key it starts and says this :

1. Recover Windows XP to first partition only
2. Recover Windows XP to entire HD.
3. Recover Windows XP to entire HD with 2 partition

I have tried all three of the options and I keep getting the message, in big red letters,
'ERROR'
and in the top of the screen "cannot set temp path to work in"
I've found in youtube how it looks like
YouTube - Asus Recovery DVD error

Any advise ?

Your topic says u r hvng problems with Vista, in your explanation it says you are trying to recover XP. What exactly is in ur system?