Hi folks. I recently updated my Tuxera NTFS driver, and somehow that seemed to FUBAR my Windows 7 installation (that was the last thing I did before it stopped working). Now when I reboot I just get the single white blinking cursor. It never moves past that; I left it for a full 24 hours and it didn't change.
The problem is that I don't have an optical drive (or media), just a windows 7 iso and a usb drive. I replaced my superdrive with a 120GB Vertex 2 a while back, and have it split with both an OSX and a Win 7 partition. I have a bootable (I think) image of windows 7 on my usb drive, but I can't seem to boot from it to get into startup repair. I can, however, get into my windows install from VMWare, so since that's working fine, the culprit seems to be the MBR or something like that. Any ideas how I can get into a windows recovery environment?
Some diagnostic data:
The problem is that I don't have an optical drive (or media), just a windows 7 iso and a usb drive. I replaced my superdrive with a 120GB Vertex 2 a while back, and have it split with both an OSX and a Win 7 partition. I have a bootable (I think) image of windows 7 on my usb drive, but I can't seem to boot from it to get into startup repair. I can, however, get into my windows install from VMWare, so since that's working fine, the culprit seems to be the MBR or something like that. Any ideas how I can get into a windows recovery environment?
Some diagnostic data:
Code:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh Scratch 400.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows Scratch 99.8 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk1
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 85.4 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 33.8 GB disk1s4