Fastboot freezes when plugged into computer

[dark_samus]

Hi I bought a used nexus 7 16gb pre-rooted with CMW recovery installed, I love it. I played with the stock ROM for a few days before flashing a cm-10 nightly. I read about needing to be plugged into a computer to boot into recovery from fastboot so I unpacked my mini-usb cable, plugged my tablet into my computer and nexus, powered my nexus off, and rebooted into fastboot by pressing vol down + power and it was frozen I couldn't do anything so I unplugged it and tried again and it worked but as expected it froze when I selected recovery I've tried selecting recovery and plugging it in to no avail I used terminal emulator and ROM manager to get into recovery to flash cm-10 and it works great so far been updating it daily and it's getting better and better but if something goes wrong with the firmware I need to be able to get back into recovery to re-flash the ROM can anyone help me? Also I just want to say I do know what I'm doing with this stuff this is my 3rd android device and I'm a Cyanogenmod person I'm doing a little deving for my phone and so far have been a little successful with some stuff also all of my devices have custom ROMs on them anyways it's probly something stupid that I'm missing, thanks

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[2defmouze]

Just tried on mine booting to recovery from the bootloader, plugged into the computer, and it worked fine. Not sure why its freezing on you. Could be a CWM bug, many of us recommend using TWRP recovery these days. It's a much better interface and faster than CWM as well. I would flash it from the bootloader then try booting into it. To flash it, download the image from here: TeamWin Projects - TWRP 2.3 | TeamWin

Put the .img file in your toolkit directory or whereever you have your adb/fastboot files. Flash it with:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.0.0-grouper.img

Then try to boot into it and see if that works..

 

[dark_samus]

Thanks will try that

EDIT: OK so right before I flashed twrp it didn't freeze on me I know it was freezing before, so what's suddenly different? I switched from windows XP to windows 7 on my laptop (dual boot) but I tried on my other computer running windows 7 and it still did the same thing I even installed the boot loader interface drivers and it still froze then I post a question and it works just fine *rolls eyes* just my luck anyways thanks for the help

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