

The formatting of last allocated space began and finished. and it changed all my partitions to 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. There an error shows up that this disk is basic and have to be dynamic. I went to to the disc manager and attempted the conversion from there. I decided to format it to allow for more storage space on the my system. J did not exist and was unallocated space (was saving for a linux install at a later date). I have a large hard which is allocated into various partitions: I've done what i had assumed to be a rather simple procedure which has caused vista to no longer load.
