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Recreating a deleted Windows 7 boot partition. Possible?

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Hi,

I used to have a two-drive boot setup: a small SSD (sda) with openSUSE 13.1 in it; and a bigger HDD (sdb) with Windows 7. Recently, however, I had to do a series of openSUSE reinstalls and I *accidentally* obliterated the partition where Windows 7 had its boot -- and I make a note here: It was indeed deleted using the own Windows Disk Management utility before reinstalling openSUSE (please don't ask why I did that, I think it's pretty clear I'm a noob).

This is what openSUSE Partitioner looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/n8uKVAf.png

Windows 7 files are intact in the sdb node but, because I deleted the boot partition, the Windows CD startup repair tools cannot see there's a Windows there. So I was wondering, is it possible to recreate a Windows 7 boot to use the files in sdb, so I can dual boot from grub's menu?

If there's a relatively easy way to do this, it might be worth the try, otherwise I think I'll go with WINE. I have a pretty nice working openSUSE install now and I don't want to start messing with it by reinstalling Windows.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

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