Blinking Cursor When Booting Windows
If you have ever had an issue where you try to boot into Windows (especially, but not limited to dual booting Macs) and all the further you get is to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner here are the steps that I have found to cure the ailment:
Boot off from Windows 7 (installation) boot disk.
Choose repair
Launch DOS prompt
@ command prompt enter:
1.) diskpart
2.) select disk 0 (or appropriate disk)
3.) select partition 3 (or appropriate partition)
4.) active
5.) list partition (partition 3 should have a star next to it)
6.) exit
7.) bootrec /fixmbr
8.) bootrec /fixboot
9.) bootrec /rebuildbcd
10.) exit
11.) reboot and it should boot into windows now
***Note: might have to go back into diskpart after bootrec and set partition 3 back to active (had one that didn't work first time)
Still not 100% sure what cause this, but on our dual boot Macs it seemed to happen around the time I would push updates out to the lab; they would continue to boot OSX fine.
Boot off from Windows 7 (installation) boot disk.
Choose repair
Launch DOS prompt
@ command prompt enter:
1.) diskpart
2.) select disk 0 (or appropriate disk)
3.) select partition 3 (or appropriate partition)
4.) active
5.) list partition (partition 3 should have a star next to it)
6.) exit
7.) bootrec /fixmbr
8.) bootrec /fixboot
9.) bootrec /rebuildbcd
10.) exit
11.) reboot and it should boot into windows now
***Note: might have to go back into diskpart after bootrec and set partition 3 back to active (had one that didn't work first time)
Still not 100% sure what cause this, but on our dual boot Macs it seemed to happen around the time I would push updates out to the lab; they would continue to boot OSX fine.
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