New IdeaCentre K330 Won't Boot

Help - I just bought K330.  Ran all Windows 7 updates.  Ran fine.  Everything OK.  Then downloaded and installed MS Office Professional.  When I restarted machine, it won't boot.
It displays the following message:
"No bootable partition in table"

hey alanwnash,
i do hope you made a recovery disc for your system. If you had, insert the disc and set the bios to boot via optical device.
if no recovery disc was made, i suggest calling our tech team via the number listed in the link below
http://www.lenovo.com/contact/us/en/
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