I purchased my Macbook Pro in June, installed Boot Camp and then Win XP. I needed the Mac but also wanted to try gaming on the laptop. I play Everquest II with my grown sons.
Long story short: Everything was fine until a couple of days after Christmas. The Windows portion bombed on me. It would not boot so I tried booting from the disk with no result. I decided to just reinstall Windows but had to reformat that partition first. Since perusing the forums I have realized just how bad of an idea that is. There was nothing wrong with the Mac partion until I accidentally reformated it.
I needed the laptop for gaming over the holidays with the kids so I put Win XP back on one of the partitions. The graphics are awful and I need my Mac back. I would like to reformat the entire drive, intall OS X, Boot Camp, Win XP, and EverQuest.
When I put in the OS X disk it only wants to format the one partion. I guess that's all it sees? I went ahead and tried to format that part of the partion but it ends up failing in the end.
Now when I turn on my laptop I get a black screen telling me to insert a boot disk and hit any key.
I am now in the process of of trying to reformat with the Win cd so I can delete all partions. I hope then that I will be able to install Mac OS X on the whole system.
Does anyone have any suggestions or clues for me?
Zoo
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