Upgraded to 10.8, no boot camp partitions?

I neglected do follow-through with one of the cardinal rules when upgrading.  I didn't backup my Windows 7 partition.  The Mountain Lion upgrade went fine, but when I try to dual-boot into Windows, I only see a "Recovery" partition.  The disk still looks like has the old Windows partition, but I can't see it in the options.  Is there a new boot camp download someplace?  I couldn't find it. 

Did you happen to find anything out on this?  I did the same thing... eek.

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