Botched boot camp install on mini

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I was playing around with boot camp on my CD Mini a few months ago.

To make a long story short, the install failed because I stupidly put an XP SP1 disk in to install. Now every time I restart the machine (rarely since its my HTPC) it boots strait to a dos prompt telling me there's no OS installed.

This forces me to plug in a usb keyboard (my bluetooth one won't work), press option, and telling it to boot from Mac HD.

There's no Boot Camp partition anymore, so I don't know why this still comes up.

Any ideas? I'd hate to reinstall the OS for this, if I have to then I'll wait until I swap out the 160gb 5400rpm drive for a 250gb 7200rpm later this summer.
 

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I was playing around with boot camp on my CD Mini a few months ago.

To make a long story short, the install failed because I stupidly put an XP SP1 disk in to install. Now every time I restart the machine (rarely since its my HTPC) it boots strait to a dos prompt telling me there's no OS installed.

This forces me to plug in a usb keyboard (my bluetooth one won't work), press option, and telling it to boot from Mac HD.

There's no Boot Camp partition anymore, so I don't know why this still comes up.

Any ideas? I'd hate to reinstall the OS for this, if I have to then I'll wait until I swap out the 160gb 5400rpm drive for a 250gb 7200rpm later this summer.

Looks like you might have to wait until this Summer. :Oops: Probably the only way you're going to get rid of that XP boot sector remaining on the drive is to use your Leopard disk and do a reinstall. If you have everything backed up with Time Machine or another utility such as Carbon Copy Cloner, it wouldn't be that much work.

Regards.
 
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Looks like you might have to wait until this Summer. :Oops: Probably the only way you're going to get rid of that XP boot sector remaining on the drive is to use your Leopard disk and do a reinstall. If you have everything backed up with Time Machine or another utility such as Carbon Copy Cloner, it wouldn't be that much work.

Regards.

I was afraid of that, oh well. Thanks
 
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Have you tried setting mac os x as the default startup in system preferences?

If that doesn't work please go to terminal and enter:
diskutil list <enter>

Post the results back here.
 
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Have you tried setting mac os x as the default startup in system preferences?

If that doesn't work please go to terminal and enter:
diskutil list <enter>

Post the results back here.

I'll try that when I get home, thanks
 

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