i think i may have it fixed...crossing fingers im ...restore is running at the moment.
i used a partition program i found on this fourm...booted from it and was able to reformat and recreate the os partition. woot woot.
I am stuck and i am hoping someone here can help.
i have a dell laptop with win 8 on it that it came win. the recovery partitions are intact etc. only thing not intact is the OS partition. the recovery of course fails because of the partition missing.
is there a command i can type in diskpart...