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I concur that would most likely be quicker and should work if the partition table is not damaged and the 7 install DVD can recognize the hard drive.
I also noticed from your screen shot (thanks btw, it really helps!) that your boot code has been put inside your XP partition. We have received numerous complaints that XP trashes the boot code for 7 at times (unknown exactly why). The real issue here is that XP does not have the ability to manage Vista or 7 because they are newer than XP. The 7 bootmgr is able to include XP. I recommend to all that they use the 100 MB reserved system partition which includes bootmgr (unplug the XP hard drive when installing 7 to allow 7 to create the bootmgr there) to protect the boot manager menu when modifying partitions. It will allow one to continue to boot to other OSs if one of them gets damaged.
Cheers!
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