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    urgent problem with macbook and bootcamp!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by pina, Sep 12, 2006.

  1. pina

    pina Notebook Geek

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    Hi,

    I just bought my new macbook today and decided to install bootcamp after I tried crossover and parallels. Everything went fine, I made a partition of 7GB, windows copied it files but after the first reboot my macbook shows me the windows xp startup screen and after then, everything stays black whole the time! And what's even worse: I can't switch off my macbook anymore!

    I can't do anything anymore, does anyone in here know what I did wrong and how I can shut down or reset my macbook?
     
    pina, Sep 12, 2006
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  2. hollownail

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    How did you partition the drive?
     
    hollownail, Sep 12, 2006
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  3. pina

    pina Notebook Geek

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    I just used bootcamp assistant:

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    I used the slider to 7GB. Then in windows xp setup, I chose that partition to format in fat and to install windows on it... and how can I turn off my macbook safely? It's still on, and when I close the macbook, the led indicates it's in sleeping modus, but the 'apple logo' is still lighting up and my screen too...
     
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  4. hollownail

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    Hrm... thats odd. Not sure why the windows install overwrote your boot partition, and I'm not sure what you can do to fix it. Apple may know, and hopefully someone else on here does. But I'm curious to know as well, since hey, could happen to me when I try as well.
     
    hollownail, Sep 12, 2006
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  5. pina

    pina Notebook Geek

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    the only thing I could do is remove the battery. After that, windows just resumed its setup and continued installing... and now windows has been installed and I'm installing the mac drivers now... I'm crossing my fingers
     
    pina, Sep 12, 2006
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    7GB seems small(I installed on my buddies MBP XP home at around 20GB. ). Is your XP CD genuine?
     
    Bhatman, Sep 13, 2006
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