HP Pavilion dv7-6c66nr - Win 7 HP 64 bits - Boot manager missing

I have a HP Pavilion dv7 with Win 7 Home Premium edition pre-installed, it is a 3.5 years old computer, seldom used by me.  As my previous computer with XP was close to the end of is life I decided to investigate if it was possible to use the Pavilion.
I intend to have the Pavilion with the windows 7 sp1 and HP drivers, so at startup I pressed f11 to enter HP Recover Manager, chose  “Minimized Image Recover” and the software installed the intended image
With windows 7 sp1 installed I install all windows updates till two days ago and also an handful of HP drivers updates
Then I made 1 bootable CD windows recover disk with windows, and 1 system image windows also, that I save to a usb hd drive
Everything was going ok but the cyberlink software could not connect with the computer embedded camera. I took several steps to solve the problem and it seems that the camera was not connected (hard disconnected).
I was not sure if before the minimized installation the webcam was operating well and once more I used HP “Recover Manager” to return to the full installation
As the web camera was not operating even with the full installation, I decided to return to the streamlined installation.
I tried a short cut to the original process, and instead of going to the HP Recover Manager and a once more update of windows and HP drivers I tried to use my previous produced system image with windows, so I went to Control Panel and used windows recover from the image, copying all to the same place (I was prompt to replace a lot of existing files). At the end of the process a received a message about same errors generated by the process but I do not investigated at that time.
When I reboot the PC I have a “BOOTMGR is missing/ Press Ctrl+Alt+Del” message and a blinking prompt
Now if I attempt Recover Manager to do a “minimized image recover” I receive an 0xEFFFFF08 error code and if I tried the full image after a rather short time it announces that the 1st stage is finished and it goes boot to proceed with the second half of the process, it goes off and reboot with the “BOOTMGR is missing/ Press Ctrl+Alt+Del” message and a blinking prompt
Can anyone helps me? I have no HP recover disks (it seems that HP do not sell rescue disks anymore for pavilion dv7 and Win7)
Happy 2015 for all

Create a System Repair Disk on another Windows 7 computer to use your computer if it fixes anything.
If you live in the USA/Canada, call HP at this number 1-800-334-5144, and see if you can still get a set of recovery disks otherwise the WorldWide site:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/w1/en/support.html
If the recovery disks are not available through HP, they have them at Computer Surgeons:
http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-20621-recovery-kit-679228-002-for-hp-pavilion-entertainment-notebo...
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