Backups my friend. That's why we have them. There's no way working with computers every day, that you won't screw up now and then, even if you're careful.
If you know _exactly_ what you did, and what was lost, it means you can restore just those parts. Ie. if it's just the partition table that got wiped, you can just restore that and be fine. If you also wiped file system details, boot information etc. you'll have to restore those bits too.
If you do not know what you lost, you either have to do some digging and fine out using IT forrentics principles or do a full restore.
Unless you know the cylinder information for the old partition, you'll have to guess or use recovery tools to help you do forentic analysis on the disk to see if you can find what the values should be. That assumes no data was wiped out by Window's Disk Manager - which it may very well have been. Hopefully somebody on here would know.
It can be easy - if you have the information required to know what was lost, and know what to set it to. Nobody here can tell you since we don't know your system before you deleted things - and exactly what was deleted. There are plenty of tools out there to help you diagnose and search for lost partitions, but that will not help you if more than just the partition entry was deleted. Since we don't know what you did, it's impossible to tell you what to do.
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