Windows is may still be there and fully functioning, depending on the intentions of the person installing Linux. You don't say what Linux distribution or what desktop icons appear. Most Linux distros mount the Windows drive automatically and may or may not put an icon on the desktop.So it could be there, but not showing.
I would want to know a few things about your computer before assisting further, but I would urge you not to re-install Vista until you are sure that it is gone. Where I would start is to look at the fstab file and/or the media folder to see what drives/partitions are available. If you are a novice then I would stay away from the terminal and the fstab because it probably won't make sense to you even if you could navigate to the file and load it into a text editor. That leaves the file manager and looking into a few folders on your root directory. You can look in the root directory for the media folder and open up and see what it shows. You can also try the mnt directory. If you have a desktop icon that says computer you can click on it. Once it opens you may have another subdirctory that says Storage Media or File System. If that does not show you probably have the choice to go up or to it may say Root off to the left in a file tree. This is where you want to go to look at what drives are available if they do not show on your desktop. Then you will want to find Media as mentioned previously. If your media folder shows any drive folders that look like sda1 or sda2 or hda1 or hda2 then you can open these and see if any of them look like a Windows directory. If you still have your Windows drive available then it is just a matter of getting it to boot. There are several ways to do this. Another place to start would be to re-boot the computer and see what happens. Watch the whole process because if you just re-boot and go away, it may be giving a menu choice to boot Vista, but then will boot Linux by default.after a short time delay. This is typically what happens after you install Linux to run alongside Windows. I would do this as a minimum before doing anything drastic. 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