Instantly restarts before loading Windows 7

Heya, I've been using Bootcamp fine and dandy for a few months now but yesterday I struck a problem. I installed new Windows 7 updates and restarted my computer (as normal) but when my Mac tried to boot into Windows I get a black screen with a white flashing "_" for a few seconds before it restarts again and it goes back to trying to continuously boot into Windows (this is fine as I set Bootcamp to automatically boot into Windows). If I left my Mac on all day it would try to boot into Windows, get to the black " _ " screen, restart, and repeat the process again. I can boot into Mac OSX fine and I can see the Windows 7 partition but it just keeps restarting before it even gets to the Windows 7 load screen.
Are there any suggestions as to how to fix this? I don't want to have to reinstall Windows, I'll lose all my awesome Sims 3 houses and it takes so long to install everything again. Thanks!
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Hey Theoos..
Yeah, my version is not.. the first time i installed it was ok, but after 30 days it was asking for a key... then i installed a cracked version, and the cursor started blinking on start up, and took like 2 minutes...
I tested several cracks but with all of them happened the same.
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