Boot camp won't boot windows

Hi people,
So last night I installed Boot Camp with Windows 7 x64 on my MacBook Pro (Also my main OS is OS X Lion on the Mac side) . It was working fine with the disc in so after the install I ejected the disc. I am finding today that I can not boot to the windows startup screen, all I see is a black screen with a flashing underscore. I have formatted the Widnwos partition correctly (I believe) and it has roughly 100GB of free space. Help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
pvtpunchu

Sometimes Windows installs drivers and updates which need to be rolled back or uninstalled in Device Manager or Programs control panel.
Were you able to install the Apple drivers you saved to a USB device or elsewhere?
Boot from Windows DVD and use Automatic Repair and see if that works.
If this was an ISO of Windows 7 64-bit that you burned to DVD, that might be an issue too.

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