Rick,

The recovery is in a hidden partition, which is before the C partition. It
is healthy. C (boot) is also healthy. D was empty.
do you know how to reformat using the hidden partition?

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First, I do hope you realize that D: was likely your recovery volume that
> would allow you to reinstall the operating system should something go
> drastically wrong. If you've deleted the volume, then you should contact the
> manufacturer (Acer) about obtaining recovery media to guard against
> disaster. They may charge a nominal fee for this, but the alternative would
> be to go out and purchase a new copy of Vista.
>
> As to what you've done, I would use a tool like mbrwork (terabyteunlimited)
> to get a better look at what's going on.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "stephen" <stephen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8CE6ED09-0C2E-401B-A425-BF8ED6396EB3@microsoft.com...
> >I have an Acer aspire 3680 with Vista Home Basic pre-installed.
> > There are two partitions C and D. I was playing with the D and now it
> > won't
> > format at all.
> > The space is unallocated and when I choose new simple volume it says
> > "operation could not be completed because the disk management console is
> > not
> > up to date"
> > When it starts formatting I get a popup that windows discovered new
> > hardware
> > unidentified device and it can never figure out what the device is.
> >
> > Please, help. Thank you.
>
>