Stuck on vista and vista won't start

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K so I have the 2.0 ghz aluminum MacBook and I got it in December. I installed bootcamp and vista ultimate. Last night I was downloading a few small program on vista (like winrar and libusb) and then it froze and it never froze before.
So I waited a bit and a blue screen came up that said "windows has encountered an error and must restart"

Now it boots in windows and
Takes me to a screen asking me how to boot it.
It says safe mode, safe mode with network capabilities, safemode with command promp, I think there's another one, and then boot normally.

WELL none of these work. It starts to boot for a second or two then the blue screen flashes and it restarts again :(

So I would like to know how I can get it back to OSX so I can just delete the windows partition or something.
 
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Force shutdown of your notebook by holding down the power button for 5-10 seconds and wait a few seconds. Turn on the computer using the power button and hold down the option key (alt) and it will bring up a screen that allows you to choose which disk to boot up from. Simply choose the Mac disk and you are good to go.

Before deleting your partition i would try to boot in windows again and see if switching disks solved the problem somehow. On the other hand if you o not mind losing the data on the Vista partition, just wipe it out and reload the Windows OS.
 
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Thank you so much I will try it when I get home. You're the best
 
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It works!!

Just wanted to post that I have been using boot camp daily for about 7 months on my macbook and today was first time it did this same thing. I used the prescribed method and all is well. I did however notice that, when it did fail, I was running only one program in Mac OS, an actively downloading bit torrent. Once this program was shut down before rebooting, boot camp worked normally. Recommendation: physically close all running programs before switching to Windows. Hope this helps future users.
 
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Just wanted to post that I have been using boot camp daily for about 7 months on my macbook and today was first time it did this same thing. I used the prescribed method and all is well. I did however notice that, when it did fail, I was running only one program in Mac OS, an actively downloading bit torrent. Once this program was shut down before rebooting, boot camp worked normally. Recommendation: physically close all running programs before switching to Windows. Hope this helps future users.

This seems a little odd to me.If you're running bootcamp, then OSX is not booted. Thus, a program can't be running under OSX while running Windows...
 

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