Macbook White/Air/Pro - Windows 7 / Vista slow start-up (boot) and blinking cursor FIX

[TravisMeeks6]

omgosh, thank you SO much, bro!!!!!!!!! I really didn't want to have to reinstall and this absolutely worked for me.. I was getten pissed: $2300 for a computer and it wont even act right lol. thanks again

[jhall006utube]

Hey, this is a great tip for a problem that is ALL over the internet.

One question. If you edit the MBR using EasyBCD, can you reinstall OSX and have it work successfully?

Thanks

[s4vvys]

@jhall006utube The good thing about Macbooks is that by using the bootcamp, the installations of Windows 7 and Mac become totally independent. So after using the EasyBCD for this problem.. you can independently do anything to your Mac partition, without it affecting the Windows partition.. I have had my Windows installed like 5 months ago and since then i have reinstalled OS X 3 times and even upgraded to Lion and ueverything runs smooth in Windows.

[jhall006utube]

@s4vvys thanks for that, good to know! How do you think it would work if you had a clean install of Windows 7 as the only OS on the Air? So remove the OSX partition completely and THEN mess around with the MBR? I think disk utility on the OSX install USB can fix it but you never know with things like EasyBCD :)

[s4vvys]

@jhall006utube Yes that should work just fine.. Although i have never done it, but this is a solution for people who have MBA 64GB. So if u have Win 7 already installed, just boot with the OS X recovery stick and then go to disk utility and erase the Mac OS partition and exit. Then once you are back in windows then you go to management and merge the deleted partiton into the C drive..

[IDStudio7]

Thanks man! Worked PERFECT! Thank God the blinking cursor issue is gone!!!!!

[rondroogy]

When I went to the download page it says it is $24.95... Where can I get a free download?

[s4vvys]

@rondroogy Just click on the non-commercial and free version

[treyweez11]

WOW THIS SO WORKED FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ecparis20]

Thanks for your response. I don't know which mistake I made. Anyway, I have only Win7 so I can't get access to any Mac Partition. Before reinstalling, I'll try to repair the MBR using Windows 7 Bootrec.exe

[ecparis20]

Hi. I just followed your instructions and after rebooting my Macbook Air I get a "missing operating system" message. Since only windows 7 is installed on the computer I really don't know what to do. Thanks for your help.

[s4vvys]

@ecparis20 Sorry i think you pressed more buttons than you were supposed to. You should stick to exactly to whats in the video. What you have done is changed the boot partition from C to the Mac which will never find Win7. My suggestion is to re-install the Win7, which would be the quickest. If you have a lot of data on Win7 partition i suggest u save it from Mac partition. Hope that helps.

[rithyka]

Thanks, It works perfect. However sometime, after plug both USB port (one for Mouse, one for USB flash drive) of MacBook Pro 13" 2011, CPU core i5 2.3Gzh then the buildin TouchPad / pointer and Keyboard do not work. Furthermore only one USB port is work. It's not always, but sometime. Any suggestion to solve this issue?

[s4vvys]

@rithyka This has never happend with any of my Macs but u might be using the wrong/ old bootcamp drivers.. You should goto BootCamp Assistant and download the latest drivers from there and then try to reinstall the Bootcamp drivers, if that fails reinstalling windows is highly recommended. If u still have probs let me know.

Regards

[WeBeItching]

Your're awesome Man!

THANK YOU

[cikitani]

nice one dude :)

[midnightBMW]

thanks works so much better now

[budaiphone]

Thx a lot!!! Worked fine, and perfect!!!

[addy02200]

nice  thanxx , it woks perfekt