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Hi All,

I've just tried to install to install micro xp on a new bootcamp install. It didn't like it, I managed to trip the system back ito osx and remove the partition, but now every time I start the machine it tries to boot into a windows partition that doesn't exist!

I'm guessing that's because the startup disk has been flagged by bootcamp as the windows partition for setup. I can run osx on the system, I just have to hold alt on startup and select macintoshHD (which is the only option). My guesses are I either have to run a successful windows install, which I would rather not do as I'll just be removing it once it's done, or (fingers crossed) I just go into startup disk in settings and set it to osx.

Is there anything else that anyone can think of, has anyone had this problem before?

Thanks very much in advance!
 

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or follow the bootcamp doc and remove the bootcamp partition?
 
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System Preferences - Startup Disk

Really should have thought of that! guessing bootcamp set bootsector to go to windows partition, but didn't reset it when I removed partition.

worked great, thanks very much for your help!
 

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Really should have thought of that! guessing bootcamp set bootsector to go to windows partition, but didn't reset it when I removed partition.

worked great, thanks very much for your help!


We all forget about the easy stuff it seems like.
 

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