I am dual booting my mackbook pro with windows 7 64 bit. Yesterday it started locking up at the disk drive selections screen, when you hold down the "option" butting when powering on. I have been searching all morning, and so far nothing. Thanks. :)

Hey folks,
I have been using bootcamp for months now with windows 7 64 bit, and its been fine, yesterday while I was rebooting to do some gaming, at the hard drive selection screen when you boot holding the "options" butting down, it locks up when I select the windows drive and just sits there for ever. It doesn't throw an error, it boots fine into Lion.
I searched all morning and didn't find anything, was hoping that someone might have an idea.
Thanks in advance

Search again. Microsoft has tips on what to do and Windows has a number of features
system restore points
automatic system repair using the Win7 DVD
system restore image creation
Just like you would with OS X Lion and Lion Recovery and Repair
Use WinClone 3 www.twocanoes.com $20 to make an image just like you would with Disk Utility Restore or Carbon Copy Cloner
rollback to last known good boot check point
rollback a driver or program or any changes
clean out temp files
clean registry
chkdsk
https://discussions.apple.com/people/The%20hatter?view=bookmarks

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