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Help with partitions
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Hey
I wanted to try Windows 7 on bootcamp, since someone told me it updated and could be used smoothly now. So I put my windows 7 disc (64-bit) which could of been the issue. The computer booted up on the windows side. It asked me to eject the disc and restart. I couldn't eject it. So I rebooted used option key and got back to the mac side. I've decided I don't want to use bootcamp and am looking into Crossover. The problem is that now my computer turns onto some black window saying nothing to boot. So i tried to go back and reverse the partition, but bootcamp isn't even acting like it did partition. How do I make whatever dumb thing I did go back to normal?
thanks for the help.
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Should I maybe go through with the partition and then get rid of it? Since it seems like the partition got 1/4 finished, but somehow is still on my default start up. Any ideas?
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You can also go to System Preferences -> Start Up Disk -> Mac OS X to change your start up disk.
To delete the partition, go to Disk Utility -> Bootcamp -> Erase (Make sure you erase the Bootcamp partition, not anything else)
Instead of Crossover (which is a WINE based application), you could try Parallels or VMFusion.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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He was stuck in a mean loop, Rumor. A botched windows install somehow modifies firmware and gets you stuck booting to a black windows screen. Keypresses and whatnot do nothing until you zap the PRAM. Very annoying.
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Ahh, I never ran into that before (though I had one botched install). Good to know.
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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Most goobered Win installs simply mess up the partition table and leave you defaulting to boot from a bad Windows partition. If it goes really bad, you're stuck with firmware that's sort of "between settings" for what and how to boot. It's always a good idea to try to boot into the boot selector or the OS X DVD, but if that doesn't work, it sounds like the PRAM zap is the way to go. And what do you have to lose in that situation? 
However, it is ALWAYS a good idea to have the instructions in front of you when you do an unfamiliar task, so new users would do well to prepare for their Boot Camp installation by printing the instructions-just like the on-screen instructions tell you to do. (Did that sound like I was lecturing?)
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