As I suggested upthread, http://ultimatebootcd.com/ has an iso you can burn that enables such repairs as well as many others, and hardware tests, and more. It includes Ranish Partition Manager, which can write a new standard MBR (partman /mbr) as well as set the boot flag (interactive operation).
Do you mean "Boot Partition"? At http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm it doesn't mention Windows 7, and thus I guess it won't help? Anyway, I burned it to DVD, but the laptop can not boot it: "No bootable device --- insert boot disk and press any key" where (of course) I enabled booting from CD/DVD (same as with the Suse DVD which still works).
I don't have an "install CD" (I don't remember that I ever got such a thing; definitely not with the last two laptops I bought). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org