Want to reset, but both power recovery and windows recovery fails. WTD

Hi!

First of all I suggest that you upgrade to a newer edition of Windows - Vista is pretty old at this point and Microsoft does not support it anymore. On top of that it is unreliable.

You could try installing a new copy of Vista (removing all data from the laptop) if you still have the license key of the old one. You’d just need to make a USB stick bootable with a Windows image with one of the many tools available online (this is what you should do if you decide to ditch Vista for W7 or W10).