Windows 7 wont start anymore ; bootmgr is missing

Hi there,
Santa brought me a Toshiba laptop this year and I spent the night trying to install Arch Linux on it.
The machine came with two partitions, one containing Windows and one containing silly restauration files. I shrinked the second one to 10Go since it didnt need the 180Go it had, thus leaving room for Linux. This operation was made using Windows' graphical tool.
Then I booted on an Arch CD and entered manual setup for partitions.
It was like this :
sda1 * File System Unknown
sda2 NTFS //Windows
sda3 NTFS //Useless restauration
I made it this way :
sda1 * Linux (83)
sda2 NTFS //Windows
sda3 NTFS //Useless restauration
sda4 Extended
sda5 Linux (83)
sda6 Linux Swap / Solaris (82)
I mounted the filesystem's root to sda5 and the swap to sda6, and I told grub to install in sda1.
Windows wouldnt show up in grub ; I tried to tweak menu.lst but failed at solving the issue, now I suppose the Windows section was a comment but I didnt notice back then. Thus I thought I had done something wrong and I booted on the arch CD again and this time I mounted /boot to sda1 and installed grub to sda (and I assume sda meant MBR).
Windows still didnt show up in grub's menu. I looked at menu.lst again and noticed the windows section was preceded by # which made it useless. I removed the sharps and it still doesnt work (see below).
Now fdisk -l outputs :
sda1 Linux (83)
sda2 * HPFS/NTFS  // (Why the fuck is this one bootable ? Oops ?)
sda3 HPFS/NTFS
sda4 Extended
sda5 Linux (83)
sda6 Linux Swap / Solaris (82)
menu.lst has :
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel blablabla
initrd blablabla
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel blababla
initrd blablabla
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Now Windows appear in the grub menu but when I try to boot it it says "BOOTMGR is missing, hit ctrl+alt+suppr to reboot".
Arch Linux still works fine.
I think I can fix the misplaced * by reinstalling again and remanaging partitions but I'm clueless about how to launch Windows 7 again. Could it be possible that the partition's content was wiped during the Archlinux install (I never touched it in the partition managing menus nor mounted anything there) ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Last edited by fil_razorback (2009-12-25 04:41:25)

Thank you pointone, you helped me understanding what was going on and it's all good now.
sda3 was a recovery partition (there was a readme on it) and it was used when I put the recovery DVD in the machine. This DVD wasn't able to reinstall just the bootloader so it put everything back to factory settings.
I started all over and got it working, this time leaving untouched sda1 and putting grub on the MBR. My dual boot now works
Also, thanks Ghost1227 for the good laugh

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