Boot Sector problems upgrading to WIndows 7 on T61

I'm trying to upgrade my T61 (bought in Canada with Windows Vista) to Windows 7. However, the installation aborts partway through, with the message "Windows cannot write to the boot sector". The most common solutions that I have found online do not work - there doesn't seem to be any problem with my registry - and it appears that the boot sector has become corrupted, although I cannot notice any problem with normal operation.
One solution I have found to this problem is to use the Windows Vista installation disk to "repair" the boot sector. However, my T61 didn't come with Vista disks, just the Lenovo R&R package. I haven't found a way to repair the boot sector this way.
Without some help I don't think I'll be able to perform the upgrade.
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Fixed my own problem. The Windows 7 installation disk was able to repair the boot sector. All I needed to do was boot from the Windows 7 disks and follow the instructions for "repair" operating system.

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