Win7 crashed, recovery DVD corrupt. Options?

Dell Inspiron 570 Windows 7 64-Bit
Windows crashed and will not reload, upon reboot, menu displays stating that it did not shutdown properly, no matter which option is selected, the system does the initial screen graphic for windows loading with a animation bar, but then a blue screen pops up very briefly and then it reboots.

When I disable the auto-reboot on failure, it just has the generic description that there was a fatal error and is shutting down for safety. It does display specific error codes, but it is just very long numerical strings.

So I break out the recovery disk that I dutifully created when I purchased the system and inserted into the optical drive and then boot. The disk does boot and it gets as far as the default Windows blue background with some simple graphics, I wait a while then I get an error box with the error code 0x4001100200001012. No further actions.. Looking up that code shows that there is a problem with the recovery DVD, most likely the write speed was too high when it was created, unusable. GRrrrrr!!! I never tested the disk after I created it.

So now I have a hard drive that fails to load Win7 and a recovery disk that is non-functional.
I tried the Recovery partition option in the boot sequence, F8, but it too results in a reboot because the system is trying to boot in Safe-Mode. The last file to load in the list is CLASSPNP.SYS

I can access the hard drive if I plug it into the system as a secondary drive, the files seem to be there. I can recover the files from the DVD, I used a recovery program for CD/DVDs, but the files are then placed on my running hard drive (Win XP), but I'd have to make a bootable disk and include the files in their proper directories. I'm a hardware guy, I can repair sophisticated automated machinery, but software is a bit of a black box for me. My attempts at creating a copy of the recovery disk have failed.

I've tried to find on the DELL web site if a recovery DVD could be obtained, no luck. I visited the Microsoft website and found there is a way to obtain the files, I presume to download. They require the Product Key, which I can understand for verification purposes. The response is that this was delivered thru a PC manufacturer and that I need to go thru them, DELL. Plus I recently discovered that Microsoft removed the WIN7 files for download. So I'm stuck, is there a way I can obtain a recovery disk or obtain the files to create a new one? Are there any tricks out there, maybe clone the failed drive and maybe it would boot?

Sorry for the long post, but I figure if I supply the information up front, that eliminates the Q&A sessions later.