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    mounting and unmounting

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by budgiemaster, Jun 22, 2010.

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    budgiemaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    To upgrade to 7 from Vista, I unmounted my osx drive. Then I realized that I rather just get a 32 bit version of windows xp since I will be rarely using it so I deleted the windows partition. Does it matter that I never mounted my osx drive using the osx install disc?
     
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    Ok, yea. I restarted my macbook and it said please insert a bootable device. I think this is because I told it previously to boot up from the windows partition in a boot camp options menu in Windows but that partition does not exist anymore. Now, I need to hold down option to choose the Macintosh HD otherwise it will prompt me to insert a bootable device... Help would be extremely appreciated.
     
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you can boot with out installing a OSX DVD your still safe. Once up, open the System Preferences and open Startup Disk and set your default.
     
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    Thanks, blue. It worked perfectly!
     
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    Okay, I ended up installing Windows 7 successfully. I used a program on Apple's website to unmount my OS X partition. In Apple's guide it said that it will mount back on once I boot up in 7, however, when I go to computer in 7, I only see the Boot Camp partition. Does this still mean my OS X partition is unmounted?

    EDIT: I called Apple support and I was able to fix it.
     
    budgiemaster, Jun 23, 2010
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