Boot Camp Killed My HD
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- brains
Balls. Yesterday was pure balls. I bought leopard in order to use bootcamp on my Intel iMac for VPN work use. After installing the OS, I set a few things up and created a partition for windows, restarted from the comp with the windows disc in there, and started setup until I reached the screen that asks you to choose the drive to install windows to, I then realized the partition didn't exist , so I planned on restarting and trying that process again. That was the last time my computer booted up. Now I boot to a blank grey screen of death, no apple logo, and can't use any key commands to boot from CD, into verbose or single-user mode, the only thing I can do is reset the PRAM. Fucking shite. Luckily I have the G5 power pc for work, but stil, this is a load of shit.
- MrOneHundred0
If you have a FireWire cable you can start your iMac up in Target Disk mode from your G5. From there you can wipe the HD and then you should be able to re-install. Also, you create the Windows partition from within BootCamp during the install. Hope this helps. (read: hope I know what I am talking about!)
- brains0
no dice with target disk mode, if by that you mean holding T after the pong.
- That’s the one... Sounds like it’s more serious – sorry.MrOneHundred
- flavorful0
The upcoming episode 040 of the J Pitts Show will not kill your HD.
Unless your hard drive doesn't like the Boot Camp Clik!
- myobie0
I had bootcamp running fine. It could be an HDD issue (like the drive itself is messed up).
Sorry man. If the T key doesn't work, I feel like there are bigger issues.
- brenton0
Boot Camp is sooooooo beat. I've used it once with horrific results.
I don't trust anything that repartitions your hard drive without a full erase.
- tbgd0
you need to boot and hold down "alt" key. that allows you to choose the drive you want to boot from. holding down "T" let you start the drive as an external. You'll probably need to format the whole drive and then do a clean reinstall of leopard. Once that's done use bootcamp to create a partition. From there go straight into the windows xp install. When in the windows install you need to reformat (not a short format) the bootcamp created partition in NTFS. Make sure it's the right one!! Make a note of the size of the partition you set-up in bootcamp.
This worked for me.
- cotton0
i don't understand why you wouldn't be able to boot from cd.
I had a similar problem, but the only thing that saved me was being able to boot back up from the apple system cd.
- ESKEMA0
what probably happened is that you erased the whole HD in NTFS format during windows instalation. happened to a friend of mine, so now the whole HD is in NTFS format and won't boot with the cd.
- cotton0
makes sense.
glad i bought a separate drive for windows.
- neue75_bold0
boot camp [don't] clik
- er, you'd have to know a bit about hip hop for that to have worked...neue75_bold
- roundabout0
If I was you I would go right back, and KILL Boot Camp, the bastard.
- brains0
"what probably happened is that you erased the whole HD in NTFS format during windows instalation. happened to a friend of mine, so now the whole HD is in NTFS format and won't boot with the cd."
No sir, I made the partition in OSX, with bootcamp. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
- freeskihp0
I just set up boot camp for autoCAD and fruityloops and both are working magically and I only paid $10 for XP pro
yesterday was just super