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So I have Snow leopard installed on a new 27 inch imac i7 with 8 gigs of ram.
I used bootcamp to create a partition for a new win 7 installation. The partition went fine...did about 200 gigs out of a terabyte.
I then installed windows 7 through the bootcamp utility.
Windows 7 ultimate 64bit just didn't seem to want to complete. It would go HORRIBLY slow during the installtion (unpacking files) and finally would not get past the "starting windows for the first time". It would either stay at that screen indefinitely or, as is the case now, the screen goes black. I have to manually reset the computer.
1. Now, while this was all happening, when I reset, I just needed to hold the command key and I could load the OSX instead of the windows setup. (although if I did NOT hold in the command key..the default seemed to be the win 7 partition).
2. NOW my problem is worse . Last night the power went out and my computer turned off (I generally have it on). When I turned it back on, it only lets me load the defunct win 7 partition (meaning straight to a black screen after saying it's "loading windows"). The command key does nothing to allow me to see both Operating systems.
I did nothing odd in between 1 and 2..other than the black out. Any advice?
-El Gaucho
I used bootcamp to create a partition for a new win 7 installation. The partition went fine...did about 200 gigs out of a terabyte.
I then installed windows 7 through the bootcamp utility.
Windows 7 ultimate 64bit just didn't seem to want to complete. It would go HORRIBLY slow during the installtion (unpacking files) and finally would not get past the "starting windows for the first time". It would either stay at that screen indefinitely or, as is the case now, the screen goes black. I have to manually reset the computer.
1. Now, while this was all happening, when I reset, I just needed to hold the command key and I could load the OSX instead of the windows setup. (although if I did NOT hold in the command key..the default seemed to be the win 7 partition).
2. NOW my problem is worse . Last night the power went out and my computer turned off (I generally have it on). When I turned it back on, it only lets me load the defunct win 7 partition (meaning straight to a black screen after saying it's "loading windows"). The command key does nothing to allow me to see both Operating systems.
I did nothing odd in between 1 and 2..other than the black out. Any advice?
-El Gaucho