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- MBP| 2.33 15" |2 Gig|320 GiG 7200 rpm |256 MB X1600
Mac book Pro
Problem : borked boot camp install and now I only get a gray screen.
Installed new hard drive as i was running low with tiger and xp installed . Installed tiger without a hitch , improved performance was extremely pleased . Then tried installing boot camp and this is where it all turned into a nightmare.
Like an idiot I did not realize that i had an xp disc with only sp1 installed instead of the needed sp2 .
Was installing boot camp 1.4 i believe until i could afford to buy leopard . Partitioned the hard drive , formatted the widow partition ntfs as it is a 320 gig hard drive . Restarted after format process and kept looping in the system files install for xp which it seemed to work as all the files were copied but when it restarted to install the OS it would start again copying the system files . At this time still was not aware i had inserted the sp 1 disc instead of the sp2 slip streamed disc. Then the catastrophe struck Power outage (have the worst possible power supplier in the country ) the disc tried two more times to install as I did not know why the heck it would not install . Anyways after that it died and without any power source until power was restored.
Upon restarting it after power was restored the only thing I could come up with was a gray screen. If i tried to boot from original mac osx dvd nothing , gray screen . So i put the xp disc back in and started the machine while holding down the c key in an effort to boot from the xp disc(now the one with sp2) and eventually a windows disc would appear with the arrow below . When choosing or clicking on the arrow it would choose the "windows" disc but shortly afterword everything would freeze. Gray screen comes up with no other response .
What i have tried
resetting the pram to no avail
boot from either disc xp or osx nothing except on one occasion with the osx disc inserted it showed just an arrow then froze .
boot from safe mode no avail
I am at a loss and open to any suggestions at this point .
thanks in advance
Wrath
Problem : borked boot camp install and now I only get a gray screen.
Installed new hard drive as i was running low with tiger and xp installed . Installed tiger without a hitch , improved performance was extremely pleased . Then tried installing boot camp and this is where it all turned into a nightmare.
Like an idiot I did not realize that i had an xp disc with only sp1 installed instead of the needed sp2 .
Was installing boot camp 1.4 i believe until i could afford to buy leopard . Partitioned the hard drive , formatted the widow partition ntfs as it is a 320 gig hard drive . Restarted after format process and kept looping in the system files install for xp which it seemed to work as all the files were copied but when it restarted to install the OS it would start again copying the system files . At this time still was not aware i had inserted the sp 1 disc instead of the sp2 slip streamed disc. Then the catastrophe struck Power outage (have the worst possible power supplier in the country ) the disc tried two more times to install as I did not know why the heck it would not install . Anyways after that it died and without any power source until power was restored.
Upon restarting it after power was restored the only thing I could come up with was a gray screen. If i tried to boot from original mac osx dvd nothing , gray screen . So i put the xp disc back in and started the machine while holding down the c key in an effort to boot from the xp disc(now the one with sp2) and eventually a windows disc would appear with the arrow below . When choosing or clicking on the arrow it would choose the "windows" disc but shortly afterword everything would freeze. Gray screen comes up with no other response .
What i have tried
resetting the pram to no avail
boot from either disc xp or osx nothing except on one occasion with the osx disc inserted it showed just an arrow then froze .
boot from safe mode no avail
I am at a loss and open to any suggestions at this point .
thanks in advance
Wrath