I figure it out! It took about 8 hours but I got it to work. I decided to make a You Tube video to save you all the time. It's about ten minutes long and it shows how to fix the dreaded blinking cursor and the error about having the wrong version of Windows when you try to repair it.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=DDaSFRAviq4
Let me know if it helps.