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Cannot repair Windows 7 MBR after installing Fedora 15
After installing Fedora 15 on its own partition on the same hard drive as my previous Windows 7 installation, whenever I tried to boot into Windows 7 through GRUB it would tell me "BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." So I looked up how to repair the mbr (booted up from usb drive that I burned the Windows 7 image to) and tried many things but nothing has worked. All I have managed to do is format the Fedora partition, delete it, then extend it back to the Windows 7 partition, which did not help. The GRUB bootloader is gone, but after attempting to repair the mbr, all I managed to do is delete GRUB but it still gives me the error "BOOTMGR is missing" when I try to boot.
System Recovery Options does say there is "Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered) on drive C:, which is where Windows 7 was installed but bootrec /ScanOs says there are no Windows installations.
I did everything in this tutorial ( MBR - Restore Windows 7 Master Boot Record ) and it seemed like it worked, but after booting it up it still said BOOTMGR is missing.
I also tried using the Bootrec.exe tool, doing the commands bootrec /FixMbr and bootrec /FixBoot, all of which did not fix my problem.
Ideally, I would not have to do a fresh installation. Any advice on fixing my Windows 7 MBR would be great.