Fixing windows MBR without Vista Recovery CD

I had Windows Vista + Ubuntu running on my system. I deleted the ubuntu partitions from Windows. However, when I start the system, GRUB throws up an Error 22 (missing partition) and does not let me boot into Windows.

The CD ROM on my laptop is fried and therefore I tried installing Ubuntu again using a USB install. However, the version Ubuntu 9.10 justs hangs in the load screen and does nothing. I do not have windows Vista Recovery CD (as it was a recovery partition in my laptop).

What are the options I have? How do I fix this?

I have also found using Trinity Rescue Kit and the test disk application that comes with it great in this type of situation. test disk is ran from the command line, but not to difficult to understand just make sure to read everything before making choices, but it can fix your MBR, partion tables, boot sectors, etc.