Drive with no file system

Hello!
First off, i hope that this is being posted in the right place - i
appologise if it isn't!

OK then, onto my problem. Yesterday, after starting my computer i was confronted with a prompt asking me to insert my ME boot disk (i really have no idea why). I did this both with a floppy boot i had made a few weeks ago, and a system restore CD that was supplied with my computer (i have used this several times to restore my comp). Each time it failed to boot windows.

I figured there might be a problem with my mbr, so i ran 'acronis OS selector' to take a look at my hard drive. Contained in this program is a disk administrator which i have used successfully several times in order to partition my hard drive for various reasons (such as to try linux). There it showed me 2 partitions - an 11gb one and a 25gb. This was the setup i had had a couple of days ago, but had deleted the 25gb and resized the other to the full 36 gbs (this was only 2 days ago). Also each of these partitions were showing an error that they had no filesystem. That was how i left it yesterday.

This morning i boot up my computer and run the same program to see a slight change. Now rather than them both having no filesystems, the 25gb partition is now using FAT32 (as it was before i deleted it 2 days ago). After fiddling about with it i found that i could get the full 36 gb hard drive into the one partition running FAT32 (that meant formatting the partition which had no filesystem, deleting the 25gb one and resizing to use up all the extra space).

My question is (finally, it would seem!) will my system restore CD put ME back onto a formatted hard drive? The documentation for the CD seems to say that the backup is actually kept in windows so i presume it will have nothing to back up from. I have tried my computer supplier several times over the phone (TIME) but quite simply i cant afford to wait the length of time I seem to be on hold for!

I hope this message makes sense and if any other information is needed (or if something needs further explanation) i will check back! BTW, each time i've used the restore CD it uses norton Ghost, and the only actual operating system CD i have is an XP home one which has already been activated (currently the comp im on now).

Thankyou!

It really depends upon the particular CD. Try booting from it and see what it says. That's the problem with Windows. Go *nix