Deleted Linux partition. Need win disc and help!

Well I made a 5gb partition on my hard drive for linux recently. Today I realized it was useless, and I wanted to delete it. So being new to this stuff I thought it would be alright to just delete the partition and reformat it. I restart my computer and the grub loading message still comes up but gives me an error. This is what it says: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 Any way to fix this? I think I can still boot into some live cd's for linux if necessary. Also, I am running windows xp with SP2 and had Freespire Linux. It won't let me boot into windows or linux and all I can do is get into my bios or boot off a live cd. I think I should add I don't have a windows disc. Dell never sent one with my computer... So I've been reading and learned that to fix this I need the windows disc and reinstall a file. So this leads me to two questions I have: 1. How can I get Dell to send me my Windows discs? I remember my friend got his and his computer is older then mine. Also my computer's warranty is up. 2. Could I use another windows disc? I'm not going to actually be installing windows fully so it should be alright, shouldn't it? Thanks for reading!