Formatted Windows 8 drive from the Vista dual boot, now unable to load any O/S

I have a Vista laptop and I installed Windows 8 trial version on a different partition. Later I wanted to reinstall windows 8 so foolishly I formatted the windows 8 partition when I was logged in from Vista. Now when I start my laptop the Windows 8 screen
pops up and attempting to repair. It goes on for hours.
I dont have a Windows 8 disk, I download the trial ISO and installed it. Now I tried to run my laptop's vista recovery bu it doesnt seem to work. Usually it goes to factory setting when I press ALT + F10 at the bootscreen. (I have a acer which came with
Vista). (The recovery stuff are in a different partition which was unharmed.)
I don't know how to recover my laptop. Please help. Is there a way to make the laptop load vista instead of trying to recover Windows 8? My Vista partition is perfect. Please help.

Pranav
You cannot use a win 8 trial to repair a vista partition. If you dont have a win 8 disk how did you install it?
Win 8 installs a hidden "boot" folder.
If you have or can find a vista dvd you can delete win 8 and install vista but it has to be OEM version of vista since it came with the computer.
There is a convoluted method using BCD to change the boot order but some foreknowledge of BCD and the computer is necessary.
Since there is no longer support for vista this may be a good time to update to win 8 but you would have to purchase a license
Here is a primer on BCD http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/rebuild-bcd-store-windows.htm
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