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NTLDR is missing after retore

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Here is what happened

1) On boot received a SMART message that the disk was failing and the message 'NTLDR is missing' started appearing. I was still able to run windows 7 by booting from my Acronis recovery DVD
2) I purchased another Hard Disk of the same size as the original. I tried to clone the disks but that failed. I therefore restored my latest backup to the new disk.
3) I have removed the failing disk and put the new disk in its place. The new disk is now referenced as Disk 0 and I have made it active. From a partition perspective it all looks OK - see attachment.
4) However I'm still getting 'NTLDR is missing' errors. I've tried researching and running the windows recovery environment after booting via the Windows 7 installation disk but haven't made any progress. I've run commands like
bootsect.exe /nt60 ALL
Bootrec /fixboot

but still no joy.

Any advice as to what to do next?

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Your picture shows drive C to be active whereas most Win7 systems have the System Reserved first partition as active.

I would make the system reserved partition as active and retry the boot.

Your manual commands may have messed things up so you may need to restore the system reserved partition again.

If you have a Windows Recovery CD, the startup repair could also fix your current problem but you may have to run it twice.