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Wiped Primary partition holding XP, now can't boot 7
From within windows 7 I used CCleaner to wipe my partition containing XP. When I rebooted, the system wouldn't start at all. I had forgotten that XP was setup on the first ~100gb of the drive as a partition (partition 1), and 7 was on the remaining (partition 2). So I'm guessing that I inadvertently wiped the MBR. I've been trying several methods for hours but cannot get windows to boot.
At this point when I boot the computer, I get the message "BOOTMGR is missing". I have tried running the recovery Startup Repair and have tried using the four main (commands). Since that didn't work, I tried setting the partition former XP partition (partition 1) as active and running them again, then doing the same with the 7 partition (partition 2). With that still not working, I tried following this guide to bootsect, to no avail.
Ideally I would remerge my two partitions, but I don't know if that is possible without messing anything else up. Otherwise I am fine having the former xp partition (partition 1) just be used for data, and windows 7 to work as-is (partition 2). I have the windows 7 installation disc as well as a gparted disc, along with access to a couple working windows pcs.
Thank you for any help.