After installing lion, windows 7 boot option disappeared.

I had a macbook with snow leopard and windows 7 together. Yesterday I installed macosx lion. After installing it, windows 7 selection disappeared  in boot  menu. I tried to select boot options by  pressing "alt key".  I saw a new partition which is Recovery HD. There was no bac up files. So what happened to my windows 7 part? How can I restore system?
I tried to use disk utility in lion.  I realized that the name of the windows 7 part was changed, now it is disk1s4 but before it was disk0s3 etc..
I removed my macbook HDD and attach with as external HDD to a desktop computer. But I could not find any solution.
In a forum, Someone suggest to create RAW diskimage  by using a program named "active and undelete"
Firstly delete windows 7 partition on HDD and create new partition. And then  set up it with windows 7 DVD  and use RAW diskimage and restore your old settings.
is this logical?
Or is there any simple way to rescue my system?   For example If I reinstall Snow Leopard, come my windows 7 partition back?

I could not remember this selection but if I choose one, I choose complete install..

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