Timeline 3810t Recovery Partiton

Hi guys. So I decided to install Ubuntu when I was VERY sleepy a few nights ago, and didn't even think of first creating the recovery DVDs... I'm stupid, what can I say? Anyway, predictably, it crashed during the partition shrink with the result of a totally smashed partition table. No bootable Windows. However, through GRUB I can still see the Windows Vista Recovery, and I can boot into it -- but it gives me a wacky error (I'll post the exact error tomorrow; I left my power cord somewhere so I can't get to it right now). Then the recovery thing says it was successful, but doesn't seem to have done anything when I reboot.

So, do you guys know if maybe the recovery software is incapable of creating an ntfs filesystem, or something like that? Right now I've got the recovery partition, a swap and a huge Ext3 partition with Ubuntu -- no ntfs space at all. I sort of expected the software to whipe out Ext3 and Swap and just put Windows there, but -- well, it didn't do anything. So should I build an ntfs and try again? With what just happened, I'm sort of hesitant to even try partitioning again if I don't need to, since now I at LEAST have a workable Ubuntu install.

Has anyone tried using the recovery partition? What were your circumstances?

Anyway, any help you guys can offer would be appreciated.

 

Has anyone used the recovery partition?