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Speaking of booting recovery tools, one of the things I liked about Linux was making a boot diskette so that if your Lilo or Grub got hosed, you could boot the diskette and it would load Linux from the HD. If you follow the instructions on this page you can do the same thing with Vista or W7:
Multibooters, Vista Dual and Multibooting - Vista Boot Floppy
Just scroll down a bit and it shows how to format a USB key so you can boot your boot manager from it. Might be a good thing for a dedicated cheapie USB key to keep in a drawer.