HELP: messed up my Dell laptop

[andrewwan1980]

I have Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with Vista. I resized my OS partition and enlarged the extended partition (MEDIADIRECT). I then created a new logical partition (D: which will hold my personal files).

On restart Vista automatically repaired my MBR because it says it was corrupted. I lost Dell's F8 OEM Factory Restore Image. I really wanted this so I got hold of someone's (Tom's) Vista MBR (they used goodell's mbrsaver.exe).

I used mbrsaver.exe /r to replace my MBR with Tom's MBR.

Now when I boot up I get the old fashion Dell banner at the top of the screen. It also says "2 partitions". Nothing else happens. I press F8 and it says "no bootable OS found".

Help!!!

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> I have Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with Vista. I resized my OS partition and
> enlarged the extended partition (MEDIADIRECT). I then created a new
> logical partition (D: which will hold my personal files).
>
> On restart Vista automatically repaired my MBR because it says it was
> corrupted. I lost Dell's F8 OEM Factory Restore Image. I really wanted
> this so I got hold of someone's (Tom's) Vista MBR (they used goodell's
> mbrsaver.exe).
>
> I used mbrsaver.exe /r to replace my MBR with Tom's MBR.
>
> Now when I boot up I get the old fashion Dell banner at the top of the
> screen. It also says "2 partitions". Nothing else happens. I press F8
> and it says "no bootable OS found".
>
> Help!!!
>
Read what Tim Daniels wrote about that for 2 days ago in this group.
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[andrewwan1980]

I am so lucky to have repaired my laptop all by myself.

I used Windows Vista DVD bootrec to fix the mbr.. and this seems to have done it.

But my partition table it a bit messed up. However I use ptedit (via bootable CD) to hide/unhide my DATA & MEDIADIRECT partitions, and was able to rebuild Dell's F8 Factory Restore Image.