Hi guys,
Im in a spot of bother. I have a 57gb hard disk which originally was not partitioned. When Beta 2 of Vista came out I decided to partition this disk to try it out. So I devided it into 42gb/15gb using partition magic. When I was finised installing Vista I noticed that my 42gb partition, which contains all my old files, windows XP etc, appeared blank. I assumed this was a partition error on my own behalf and decided to restructure the partitions. Im not quite sure what I did at this point but it seems that I set both as logical and neither as a primary. On the next reboot the system failed to find an OS and both drives now appear to be blank!

I have tried to use FDISK but it failed to load on my PC. I have a laptop with no floppy drive but did copy FDISK etc onto a CD and from there ran from a temp drive but this still wounldnt let me see my partition setup. Any attempts to re-install an OS on the 15gb partition have failed saying that it cannot setup the correct volume (this was for attempted installs of win2000 and Vista). I'm not too sure if using DISKPART in the win2000 recovery console will make much of a difference.

I'm completely lost at this point!!!!
Any ideas??????????????????