Help please help
Hi all i decided to download bootcamp and yes it is a beta and should have realised it could go t*ts up and it has.i installed windows but now when i start i only get the option to boot windows nothing there for osx tried putting osx boot disc trying several different start up keys and nothing just a grey screen and a square box with a question mark inside for about 20 seconds then windows boots how do i get osx back plaese,dont care about loosing whats on there now to be honest.
ps i am not good with computers so please take it easy with me.
ps i am not good with computers so please take it easy with me.
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When you hold down the alt-key at boot, is the windows partition the only one that appears even when you have the install disc in?
yes it is just the windows option with the hd image if i dont hold the alt key it just boots windows automatically.
yes it is just the windows option with the hd image if i dont hold the alt key it just boots windows automatically.
Did you perhaps choose the Mac partition when installing Windows and wrote over your OS X? If you get the Macdrive software trial:
http://www.mediafour.com/support/trials_updates.asp
while booted into Windows, it should let you see if your Mac partition is still there.
Not being able to boot the system CD happens to a few people. Are you using the disc that came with your machine? Also, can you confirm that when the disc is in and you boot by holding alt that the disc doesn't show up? What spec is your machine btw and what OS are you running as well as what is the OS on the installer disc?
Did you perhaps choose the Mac partition when installing Windows and wrote over your OS X? If you get the Macdrive software trial:
http://www.mediafour.com/support/trials_updates.asp
while booted into Windows, it should let you see if your Mac partition is still there.
Not being able to boot the system CD happens to a few people. Are you using the disc that came with your machine? Also, can you confirm that when the disc is in and you boot by holding alt that the disc doesn't show up? What spec is your machine btw and what OS are you running as well as what is the OS on the installer disc?
Hi Marvin thanks for your replies yes i think i partioned over my osx i have a macbook pro 2.16 i am using osx tiger 10.4 disc to try and boot when tiger disc is in i can hear it running but just comes up with the apple hd image with windows wrote underneath and if i dont hold alt it just loads windows automatically. hope this helps thanks for the replies like i said not good with computers, hopefully i can still resolve this.
Hi Marvin thanks for your replies yes i think i partioned over my osx i have a macbook pro 2.16 i am using osx tiger 10.4 disc to try and boot when tiger disc is in i can hear it running but just comes up with the apple hd image with windows wrote underneath and if i dont hold alt it just loads windows automatically. hope this helps thanks for the replies like i said not good with computers, hopefully i can still resolve this.
The Tiger disc isn't a standalone Tiger disc that you bought though is it? For example a standalone Tiger disc that you bought separately and have used on machines in the past. Like say you had a powerbook or something before and bought a full Tiger disc set, that would be a PowerPC set of discs and they wouldn't boot an Intel Mac.
If it's the set of discs that came bundled with the Macbook Pro then there should be no reason for it not to boot those. If it is definitely an Intel set of discs then try resetting your PRAM by holding command-option-p-r at boot:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Then try and see if it will recognise the disc. What to do is boot holding the alt key until you see the Windows drive and then insert the installation disc.