Nb205 recovery media

Does anyone have a disk image of the recovery media for a nb205?  I didn't make one before installing Ubuntu and damaged sections of my MBR.  Toshiba does not have them available online.
Thanks,
Zach

Re my NB205-N325BL with OEM Windows7 (32 bit, Starter)
If I understand your comments and the User Guide, pressing "0" key will return the system to its original ("just out of the box") status using the information in the Recovery Partition on the hard drive.
A couple of questions, if I may:
(info) The original disk configuration had another partition "behind" my C: drive. Using the windows disk mgmt tools - "shrinking" C: and then "stretching", I think it was called,  I have expanded that partition, the trailing partition, to use all of the area vacated by the shrink. Current configuration is: "c:" about 100 GB and the trailing partition about 50 GB.
(Questions)
1.Any Idea how use of the disk-embedded recovery would be manifest given the above changes?
If it is an "image" type recovery, it wants to re-write what was, where it was, correct? I dont know if in the shrinking process some of the OEM software was originally occupying some of the "shrunk" disk space, and thus "moved" to accommodate the shrink, or whether it was simply empty space.
Depending on that situation, it may be advisable for me to "rebuild" that HDD recovery partition, so as to reflect the "new" configuration. IS THAT POSSIBLE? I can see the recovery partition using disk management, at it reports as "healthy", by windows.
2. What does the "Recovery Media Creator" bring to the party, except to perhaps act as a separate physical backup of that Recovery Partition? Will it include all the additions and configuration changes that I have made? (like user accounts and each of their files, etc.)
Any Ideas why that tool gives me a "NO RECOVERY PARTITION"? The Windows backup tools also fail (image and/or standard backup), but the "Repair Disk" creation process seemed to write to a DVD on the Toshiba "portable SuperMulti Drive" that I bought with my system. So at least I've got that going for me.
3. Not on the topic of recovery, except that it only seems to be "recovered" by a system restart, but; Any Ideas why the Fn-Fx (Function-Fx key combinations) just seem to arbitrarily quit working from time to time? Or more appropriately, Anything you might suggest that I can try to restart them when they seem to quit? I like to use the Fn-F3 to "sleep" the system, not that going to the start menu is such a bother, but it can be disconcerting when they quit.
This was very disconcerting when I used them once to disable the touchpad (as commented in the users guide) for "easy typing". Only after SEVERAL restarts and full shutdown/start cycles did the touchpad start working again...
Lets just say I don't do THAT anymore!
Thanks and regards
dbrown
Regards,
dbrown
NB205-N325BL, Win 7/32.

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