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ststephen

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Oct 20, 2004
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NYC
my 2 year old Mac mini has worked flawlessly for years, as a PC , running Win7Pro.
Today When booted; I get “windows error recovery screen,” the usual 4 choices to boot in, if you wait, Windows starts up with the juggling spheres, then goes black!!!
The cursor still works bec wired trackball attached.

I power shut down, booted in F8. Chose recovery mode, in the next window the default US KEYBIARD appeared, could not click NEXT.... and could not continue to fix it. Neither the wired keypad, trackball, or BT KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WORKED. ( I have xpected BY not to work. This PC RUNS MY BUSINESS. ID APPRECIATE ANY HELP POSSIBLE. (PS will any Win 7 or Win10 Os disk in the Apple usb drive, work to repair it? the Bootcamp usb installer is home...DUH!) thsnks so much!!!
[doublepost=1516303440][/doublepost]PS: I have no prob Option booting to get to and startup with the Mac 10.11 partition. Thanks!
 
my 2 year old Mac mini has worked flawlessly for years, as a PC , running Win7Pro.
Today When booted; I get “windows error recovery screen,” the usual 4 choices to boot in, if you wait, Windows starts up with the juggling spheres, then goes black!!!
The cursor still works bec wired trackball attached.

I power shut down, booted in F8. Chose recovery mode, in the next window the default US KEYBIARD appeared, could not click NEXT.... and could not continue to fix it. Neither the wired keypad, trackball, or BT KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WORKED. ( I have xpected BY not to work. This PC RUNS MY BUSINESS. ID APPRECIATE ANY HELP POSSIBLE. (PS will any Win 7 or Win10 Os disk in the Apple usb drive, work to repair it? the Bootcamp usb installer is home...DUH!) thsnks so much!!!
[doublepost=1516303440][/doublepost]PS: I have no prob Option booting to get to and startup with the Mac 10.11 partition. Thanks!

Hi,

you can try to start up from a windows 7 installation media.
there you have some more repair options.
Also, can you try to boot to recovery in text mode only?
 
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