Error installing windows 7 on macbook early 2011

Hie
I was installing windows 7 on the 2nd partition of my hard drive on macbook pro early 2011 from dvd
The installation process started well nd at end it asked me for restart for completion of windows installation
Macbook got restart but got boot in mac os instead of windows
So the completion was incomplete
I restarted it again and holding option key boot in windows but now it just shows a blank screen with hyphen blinking till I hard restart it
If I install windows again the same problem will occur when it will ask for restart for completion
What should I do?

Read the Boot Camp Instructions located here: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/. You must use the same drive that contains OSX to install Windows using Boot Camp Assistant.
The Boot Camp community is located here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
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