recovering vista please help...

Hello everyone, im new here, anyways a year or so ago i tried out ubuntu with a dual boot system, i liked it alot, and a delete my windows partion and add the space to ubuntu, however more and more im getting frustrated by incompatibilty issues with hardware, i left the factory image on the machine incase i wanted to go back to windows but the system will not recover with the built in recovery tool, i'm not sure if i need to make a partiton for windows to install into or something? i bought this machine second hand with out any install disks, can anyone help?

Have you tried to hit the f11 key during boot-up.
This is the key that will ask if you wish to restore
the computer to factory spects (out of the box)
If the f11 key does not work go to the website of the
manufactor of the computer.

Jimmy

yeah i tried it doesn't even start up, i have i think lost the factory image now it just goes straight to the grub loader, i tried to delete the partitions, and ubuntu stopped running and i had to reinstall, and erased all partitions, lol NUKED, should i try to obtain installation disc's for vista? are they still availible? or am i better off with windows seven