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Boot Record is hosed after installing Win7

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TechBoyJK

Lifer
I had a dual boot XP/Vista machine. it used Vista's boot manager, offering me the choice of Vista or "Older Version of Windows" to boot to XP.

I installed 7, wiping the drive clean, formatting over the Vista/XP installs.

Now the machine won't boot, says "Couldn't find OS". But if I put the Win7 disc in the drive during boot, it will give me the option to boot from CD, and if I let it pass, it goes to the Boot Manager, but lists

-Windows 7
-Vista
-Vista (recovered)
-Older version of Windows

If I select 'Windows 7', the machine boots fine.

Any ideas?
 
After I installed win7 I had a problem where my vista disk (a separate HDD) wasn't showing up as a boot option and I couldn't access that drive from win7 even. I fixed it by using the win7 disk and repairing the boot manager. I forgot exactly what it was called or how to get to it but when I get home from work I will post exactly how I did it, sounds like this is a similar problem kinda.
 
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