1. Restarting MacBook and pressing and holding option to change boot manager to USB stick. This booted recovery stick, however for some reason I was unable to actually recover anything due to lack of access to Windows partition.
Plot Boot Manager screen |
2. Loading USB via Parallels. This didn't work for some reason either. It wouldn't even boot.
Note: I'm not sure why my BootCamp suddenly had some corrupted/missing files in Windows folder as it was working perfectly fine. I could not find anyone else with similar issues.
Solution:
After some time on Google and countless hours trying I have found this little tool (Plop Boot Manager).
It allows you to first boot your machine (using CD/DVD ROM) to Plop Manager and from there to select the actual media you wanted to boot. In my case it was USB. Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks Jeroen @ http://superuser.com/questions/353407/boot-usb-from-parallels-vm-trick-with-iso-floppy
Thanks Jeroen @ http://superuser.com/questions/353407/boot-usb-from-parallels-vm-trick-with-iso-floppy
Note: Parallels 8 is not working with this. You will need to upgrade to version 9.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html