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Missing operating system error after change of active partition in DOS OS

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By mistake i changed the active partition in dos os and now my laptop is not booting and just giving the message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". My laptop came with dos os only and am not able to install any other OS now as the size of the drive shown now is just 870MB. Please do help me out
 
Yes. You can also do this with a bootable "live" Linux CD/DVD with diskpart. There are multiple MS DOS images available on the 'Net. Just google one.