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<blockquote data-quote="obadiahorthodox" data-source="post: 1531247" data-attributes="member: 308836"><p>I bought a used mid 2007 white macbook. It has a 2 GHz intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, the start up disk is Untitled. It has Lion 10.7.5 installed. The owner that had it before me installed Lion, but did not do a clean install.</p><p>I wanted to do an experiment and install windows xp in a separate partition. I opened up bootcamp to start the process. When bootcamp opened, I clicked continue and in the next window I got the message that my disk could not be partitioned.</p><p>Then I shut down my computer and restarted it holding the option key. I discovered that there are two start up things, one untitled ( Lion) and one Windows.</p><p>When I clicked the windows thing, it booted but I got the message "missing operating system"</p><p>I need to know how to delete entirely the windows thing and get back the hard drive to where I can install XP.</p><p>I do not have a Lion thumb drive to wipe the disk and reinstall Lion. What should I do?</p><p>The computer did not come with the original install disks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="obadiahorthodox, post: 1531247, member: 308836"] I bought a used mid 2007 white macbook. It has a 2 GHz intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, the start up disk is Untitled. It has Lion 10.7.5 installed. The owner that had it before me installed Lion, but did not do a clean install. I wanted to do an experiment and install windows xp in a separate partition. I opened up bootcamp to start the process. When bootcamp opened, I clicked continue and in the next window I got the message that my disk could not be partitioned. Then I shut down my computer and restarted it holding the option key. I discovered that there are two start up things, one untitled ( Lion) and one Windows. When I clicked the windows thing, it booted but I got the message "missing operating system" I need to know how to delete entirely the windows thing and get back the hard drive to where I can install XP. I do not have a Lion thumb drive to wipe the disk and reinstall Lion. What should I do? The computer did not come with the original install disks. [/QUOTE]
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