Access Recovery Console without install disk

Window 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Had a dual boot Win 7/Ubuntu 10.10. Got rid of ubuntu by deleting the partition it was on and extended the Win 7 volume. All of this done in Disk Management. At the end Disk Management showed that space now part of C drive. I restarted to check that the grub bootloader was no longer running startups and I get the Windows 7 startup screen and then the message "Windows configuring... Do not shut down computer". After running approximately 3 minutes appears a black screen with the following: error: no such partition. grub rescue > blinking cursor. I restart and get the error message immediately. Now for the bad part!
I purchased the computer (ASUS UL30-A) with Win 7 OEM and there is no install disk because the computer has no DVD/CD drive. To fix the MBR I need to access the recovery console, but have absolutely no way to get to the RC that I know of. If anyone has suggestions I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for replying, gregrocker. Cannot get to the console via F8. Goes immediately to the error screen.
Checked online and there's a copyright issue with the iso, so the majority of reliable sites do not have the download. However, I did find one site that had it (165MB) and I downloaded it. Very interesting that it automatically downloads to a Temp folder regardless of what path you dictate. Burned the image to a DVD. Opened wintoflash and put in the DVD source and USB. got the message that the source does not have the necessary files. The iso has 2 folders but NO setup file. In one folder is a 164MB WIM file that I can't open.
If you know how to open the WIM file to see if there is and install there great. If not, or if I'm missing something here, please let me know.

Thanks again.

theog - Whether I click on <F9> once or multiple times the error screen described in my original post appears. To be clear, I deleted the partition containing Linux and extended the volume containing win7 to the unallocated space.

gregrocker - I burned the ISO to a DVD. Because I have never had to deal with ISO's before I don't know what should be on the disk after the image is burned. I include what is on the DVD below:
On the DVD:

In the 'boot' folder:

In the 'sources' folder:

I couldn't tell you if these contents are all that is needed or not. In Wintoflash I tried two sources for the Windows files. I used the ISO on my Desktop and the burned image on DVD. In both cases when I tried to proceed Wintoflash gives the message "Incorrect source of Windows files".

I installed UltraISO and followed your instructions. Set the USB as first to load in the BIOS and restarted the laptop. Immediately went to the error screen as described in my first post.

I apologize for responding much later than your posts, but I just now received email notification of ALL posts in this thread. I will manually check the site hourly. Thanks so much for the help. I appreciate it!

UPDATE: Although I set the USB to boot first in the BIOS, in 'desperation' I clicked F8 and F10 and got the error screen. I then clicked the 'ESC' key and a window opened "Select First Boot Device" and listed the HD and the USB drive. Selected USB drive and a window opened "Starting windows" and has taken me to the System Recovery Options.

So I can now get to the recovery options. I tried but failed to solve the boot problem, but my request to get to recovery has been solved and I thank you. I will start another thread with the problem I am having in recovery options.

Well done!!