Conclusion
When the Live CD is booted with an UEFI boot sequence, Grub erroneously expects 
a GPT structured HD, even if the boot HD is msdos/MBR structured. Grub doesn't 
installs itself to the MBR. When the same Live CD is booted with a non UEFI 
boot sequence Grub is automatically installed correctly in the MBR and Win7 is 
added too.

Discussion
Because more and more computers support UEFI nowadays, the out of the box 
installation of Grub and hence Ubuntu from the Live CD is expected to fail more 
often. I would suggest that the installation process should be updated to alert 
the user of a UEFI boot sequence conflicting with a non GPT structured target 
installation HD or better yet, if possible automatically make the correct Grub 
installation selection accordingly to the installation target HD's structure.

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