So I tried to install Windows XP (sp2) via boot camp on my MacBookPro ... and now my Mac wont boot up ... to anything.
I followed all the boot camp instructions and completed the first portion of the windows install (blue screen with text where you tell it what partition to install on). At this point it should have rebooted into the more gui-based portion of the windows install. However all I get now is a boot disk failure. I can boot from the Windows CD and go to the Restore console (and I see that the windows files have been copied over to the correct partition), but I can't seem to get it to launch the final phase of the OS install (or just don't know how to make it do it perhaps). I, unfortunately, cannot figure out how to get it to boot off of the Mac partition either (I've tried holding down the option key at boot up, but it goes straight to the "hit any key to boot off of CD" ... and I either boot to CD (and get the windows installer again - which fails on subsequent attempts as well), or I don't and I get a boot disk failure). I have yet to figure out how to eject the windows CD - as the eject button on the keyboard apparently doesn't do anything at this point in the boot up process (and there is no eject button on the drive itself). This is causing a serious hampering of my semanal participation as I edit all my videos on the Mac (and I was unwilling to give up on the mac last week and be forced to try to edit on the PC again :-P) But beyond Semanal ... I would like my macbook pro to be something other than a very expensive door stop .... Does anyone have any suggestions on what my next steps should be to get it back up and running? Thanks, - Dave -- http://www.DavidMeade.com
