Logical partitions invisible after deleting EISA WinRE partition on Equium

Hi,
I have a double boot with Vista pre-installed and XP. So, I had in total 3 primary partitions and 1 extended with some logical partitions within it. I keep Vista on reserve and use solely XP as boot partition. I wanted to try a third OS but I had reached the max of 4 primary partitions on the disk. So I made a backup of and removed the EISA WinRE partition that was preinstalled with Vista, thinking this would only affect Vista, as my only boot is XP.
I used XP's Computer Management tool for this. But when I right click on WinRE and chose "delete", the partition became unallocated, but also ALL logical volumes on the extended partition, except for the first one.
I tried to revert the process recovering WinRE with the Acronis image, but I the extended partition still shows only the first volume and no trace of the rest of my data. Obviously, this was a big mistake and WinRE seems to contain more than information for Vista recovery.
How can I get back my logical partitions?
Thanks for any help

Hmm I doubt you could be abele to restore the WinRE partition again without a usage of the Vista CD it seems you have completely delete this partition an also the whole data from the partition.
I agree with you and it was really a big mistake sorry but I dont see any big chanced to get it back however maybe someone has another idea.

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