Need help with Windows!

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Yesterday I set up a triple boot with Mac OS X Lion, Windows 7, and Ubuntu Linux 11.04 using the method on Lifehacker. The installation seemed to go relatively smoothly, and Mac OS still runs fine. But now when I try to boot into Windows in rEFIt or in the Mac boot menu, it brings me to a Linux boot menu with different boot loaders on my hard drive, and the only Windows one is Windows Vista, even though I have 7 installed. So when I select that one, it brings me to a thing that says Windows failed to boot and I can try to repair Windows with the install disk. So when I put in my install disk and go to repair, it tells me to select the OS I wish to repair, but there's nothing on the list. It has a button to load drivers, and then says to insert and select the driver media, but i don't know what to do there. I'm really worried here, someone please help me out, I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thanks in advance.
 

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I suspect something went wrong with GRUB. It sounds like it took over the Windows 7 boot sector. About the only thing I can suggest is to boot the machine with your Windows 7 DVD and do a repair. Follow the MS instructions from their KB article on how to do a repair. Be real careful with this though, since you do not want to disturb your OS X boot sector. Make sure you have a backup of your OS X partition that you can restore.

Don't know if this link will help you or not. You may want to do some more digging around for a better step by step on how to repair Win 7.
 

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