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Okay, I backed everything up and everything was moving nicely. I was about to "shrink" it. I just wanted to move one folder from the program files to my almost- filled external hard drive just to make sure it backed it up. When I did this, I noticed that my R: recovery drive (25GB~) was gone from the hard drive list.
Before this I had not done anything other than look through everything with the partition wizard. I didn't do any changes, I didn't have to wait for anything to be done, I didn't get any please wait message. I don't know what I could have done to make it disappear, but obviously it was because of messing with partitions. So I open up the Partition wizard, and right click on it and click make active or something along those lines. I then looked again and both drives were there with their correct letter.
I shut down my computer to go eat and do something with my family. I come back, press the power button and get the message: "Reboot and Select the proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.
I restarted and open boot BIOS like anyone would do. My hard drive was the first boot device in the list and I restored the default settings to be sure, saved, and exited. I rebooted and got the same message. I would insert the windows disc, but I'm afraid that it wouldn't open the correct drive anyway.
And to think that this all came from what should have been a very easy install of Windows 8 -_-