Hiya GUYS,

I've done what i had assumed to be a rather simple procedure which has caused vista to no longer load.

I have a large hard which is allocated into various partitions:
C: NTFS 100GB
D: NTFS 500 GB
E: FAT32 10GB
F: NTFS 30 GB
J: NTFS 80 GB

J did not exist and was unallocated space (was saving for a linux install at a later date). I decided to format it to allow for more storage space on the my system.

I went to to the disc manager and attempted the conversion from there. There an error shows up that this disk is basic and have to be dynamic. I assumed vista was smart enough not to nuke its own active PARTITION tables and that this is nothing serious so I clicked ok.. and it changed all my partitions to dynamic.

The formatting of last allocated space began and finished. The computer was functioning and all the partitions seemed fine, but i instantly could tell something was wrong as there was no longer a "system partition". So on restart my fears were right i was left with the following error:

Booting 'Windows Vista' acpi
Vista Loader 2.1.2 Done!
fallback 1 find --set-root /bootmgr
Error 17: File not found Booting 'Windows NT/2000/XP'
fallback 2 find --set-root /ntldr
Error 17: Booting 'Enter Command LINE' Boot failed!
Press any key to enter command line.
   
I have tried using the vista recovery cd to repair startup, but alas no luck. I have access to the recovery tools, but not quite sure where to go from here.

I really really would appreciate any help that would allow vista to boot up without me having to reinstall my system as it's very fine tuned for development and would be an incredibly large task of MOVING all the DATA from all the partitions and reinstalling everything again.

Thanks alot in advance!

Shadi