Yes...this sounds as stupid as the teacher I once worked with who trashed his trashcan.
Problem: There is no bootcamp return to Mac OSx option available in the menu bar in Vista and each time I try restarting the system, it boots with Windows Vista.
Steps that caused problem:
Request
Since I have all my data backed up anyway, I'd like to just start all over with a clean install of Snow Leopard, but I have no idea how to prevent the system from booting up in Vista (argghhhhh).
I really appreciate any help anyone can offer here. Thanks in advance.
Problem: There is no bootcamp return to Mac OSx option available in the menu bar in Vista and each time I try restarting the system, it boots with Windows Vista.
Steps that caused problem:
- Backed up all my data on my Mac Pro on Time Machine
- Performed a clean install of Snow Leopard
- After successful installation of Snow Leopard I started Bootcamp Assistant
- I created a secondary partition for installing Windows Vista
- During the bootcamp setup, the system asked me if I'd like to install Windows OS. I clicked yes and installed Windows Vista
- In Vista I was prompted which drive I wanted to run Vista. I hadn't seen this before when I installed Bootcamp on the older OSx.
- When I tried locating the Bootcamp symbol in the bottom right of Vista, I couldn't find it
- Note: I verified that Vista installed on the 32 gb partition I created during the bootcamp setup (I checked the size of the C drive in Vista). I didn't install on the primary partition where Snow Leopard resides
- I tried restarting, but it now starts only with Vista with no option to start from the Snow Leopard install disk
Request
Since I have all my data backed up anyway, I'd like to just start all over with a clean install of Snow Leopard, but I have no idea how to prevent the system from booting up in Vista (argghhhhh).
I really appreciate any help anyone can offer here. Thanks in advance.