I'm new on using Mac product

I accidentally change the hard disk to dynamic, where all my mac osx mountain lion is gone. is there any way for me to recover back the mountain lion osx. i'm currently using windows 7 as operating system.

For instance, a professional can
1: Clone the Windows Boot Camp partition for later restore.
2: Use Data recovery software to grab either the entire OS X boot partition, or just your files.
3: Wipe and reset the entire machine.
4: Reinstall OS X and your programs or the image, return your files
5: Restore the BootCamp partition.
You can of course do all this yourself, but your new to Mac's and thus that learning curve will inhibit your self-restore efforts as there is a lot of hidden from view things about Mac's and OS X, just like there is with Generic PC's.
Plus there is about $200 in software involved and external powered drives, which 2 are needed at least and those go for about $100 each.
So perhaps $400 spend on a tech will be a lot easier for you in this case.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/?p er_page=50
Lesson to be learned, DO NOT use Windows drive altering software on a Mac.

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