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There IS a way, i have done it. Granted, i did it by accident, but what happened was.
I was transferring files from my Mini to my external (connected via usb) hard drive (which happened to have two different installations of windows on it), after i had uploaded them i did something stupid, i turned my external hard drive off by the switch before i ejected it.
a message came up saying something like "external media was disconnected before it was ejected, data during transfer might have been lost or corrupted"
i didnt think much of it but when i tried to restart the mac, it wouldnt boot. it just went to the white screen before the apple logo appears and it would go off it.
i then put my external hard drive back into the mac and turned it on again and tried to reboot, nothing happened again. i then tried rebooting and holding escape and it came up with the black screen and asked me what installation of windows i wanted to boot into like it did on my pc. i selected one and it successfully booted into it and ran fine, i even played a game on it.
Then it was a big issue on how to get my OSX back up and running. (After i unplugged the hard drive) I tried lots of things, but in the end all it needed was for me to reset the PRAM and VRAM, but ever since i fixed it i cant seem to re-do it. Its really frustrating cause i know it can be done, i just dont want to have to break my Mini every time i want to do it.
Anyone know of another way without taking up any space on my mini's hard drive, cause i have hardly any space left.
thanks in advance
I was transferring files from my Mini to my external (connected via usb) hard drive (which happened to have two different installations of windows on it), after i had uploaded them i did something stupid, i turned my external hard drive off by the switch before i ejected it.
a message came up saying something like "external media was disconnected before it was ejected, data during transfer might have been lost or corrupted"
i didnt think much of it but when i tried to restart the mac, it wouldnt boot. it just went to the white screen before the apple logo appears and it would go off it.
i then put my external hard drive back into the mac and turned it on again and tried to reboot, nothing happened again. i then tried rebooting and holding escape and it came up with the black screen and asked me what installation of windows i wanted to boot into like it did on my pc. i selected one and it successfully booted into it and ran fine, i even played a game on it.
Then it was a big issue on how to get my OSX back up and running. (After i unplugged the hard drive) I tried lots of things, but in the end all it needed was for me to reset the PRAM and VRAM, but ever since i fixed it i cant seem to re-do it. Its really frustrating cause i know it can be done, i just dont want to have to break my Mini every time i want to do it.
Anyone know of another way without taking up any space on my mini's hard drive, cause i have hardly any space left.
thanks in advance
