My computer won't boot because of partition!!!!!

[FFernando]

For 3 full days of trying to assign my recovery partition to a drive letter I successfully did, but even thought I had done that I still pressed F11 and ALT+F11 it still wouldn't show up, One day I decided to "set active" my recovery partion with an application called Partition Wizard and I applied the changes. Big mistake, 3 seconds after I applied the changes a blue screen showed up, then my computer restarted and now when it boots it says this "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key," the problem is my DvD drive won't even open anymore. PLEASE ANY HELP WITH THIS, ANY WAY I CAN CHANGE MY PARTITION DRIVES AT BOOT SCREEN . Also F8 won't work or any other buttons except for F12 and Del.

Computer:GATEWAY DX4300-03

Thanks for the help.

[Allan]

Why would you do that?

[FFernando]

Why would you do that?

so I can reformat my computer, but I failed to do so.

[Computer_Commando]

so I can reformat my computer, but I failed to do so.

It was hidden for a reason.  You're not supposed to know it's there.  Gateway put it there so you could easily repair or format the drive.  You have now made things 100 times more complicated.  If you could change the "partition bit" from active to inactive, you should be back to where you were 3 days ago.  You will need a boot CD, try this one:  http://partedmagic.com/

[FFernando]

It was hidden for a reason.  You're not supposed to know it's there.  Gateway put it there so you could easily repair or format the drive.  You have now made things 100 times more complicated.  If you could change the "partition bit" from active to inactive, you should be back to where you were 3 days ago.  You will need a boot CD, try this one:  http://partedmagic.com/

yeah But my CD/DvD drive won't open or is there another way that I can put that .iso on something else?

[Computer_Commando]

yeah But my CD/DvD drive won't open or is there another way that I can put that .iso on something else?

ISO's are for creating CD's or DVD's.  You don't "put it on" anything.  Google:  "burn iso to cd".

[FFernando]

ISO's are for creating CD's or DVD's.  You don't "put it on" anything.  Google:  "burn iso to cd".

I'm still trying to understand, Sorry , I know ISO's are "ghosts" of a DVD or CD, If I burn the ISO from the website you gave me onto a disk it would be worthless because my CD drive won't even open, now I'm trying to get what I should do with the ISO file I downloaded from the website PartedMagic link you gave me. Sorry for my computer illiteracy in this part. You will be thankfully rewarded if this is going somewhere.

Just to make sure do you know I can't go to the desktop at all, I can't open folders, it won't even startup it just stays at the black screen where it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key"

[Geek-9pm]

You open the drive tray after the PC power is on,
but before the BIOS looks for boot devices.

[FFernando]

You open the drive tray after the PC power is on,
but before the BIOS looks for boot devices.

I press it repeatedly right when I just turn it on, anything I need to do in the CMOS like make MY CD drive as the first boot device? anyways thanks for responding and helping, much appreciated.

[BC_Programmer]

use a paperclip to force ejection by putting it in the emergency-eject hole.

[FFernando]

use a paperclip to force ejection by putting it in the emergency-eject hole.

XD k I'll try.

[FFernando]

use a paperclip to force ejection by putting it in the emergency-eject hole.

Problem the tray is in a cave-like covering followed by an openable door it's hard to even put the paperclip in. thanks anyways.

[Computer_Commando]

Can't help you , then.  You need a functional CD drive to even attempt a repair.

[FFernando]

Can't help you , then.  You need a functional CD drive to even attempt a repair.

Ok nevermind my after many times of trying to open it I found a button on the side that opens it.
It's functional
SO now what do I Do
I inserted the boot CD but I don't know what to do next.
I'm at the GNU GRUB version 1.96 menu.

[FFernando]

SOLVED
I just booted the top one then after that it gave me 3 things
Vistabootmngr
Vistabootmngr
bootos

I hilighted over one of them and pressed 'e' erased everything in there and replaced it with (everything in bold i wrote it)

title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)             <--- Vista recovery partition
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

THANKS FOR THE HELP COMPUTER_COMMANDO