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Lost my Mac partition... Or how I killed my Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="Samsixx" data-source="post: 1112914" data-attributes="member: 172769"><p>Hi all, </p><p></p><p>I hope someone here can save me a trip to my local "genius." </p><p></p><p>I thought that it would be a great idea to convert my mac mini into a windows server for the office. I read up on it and was supposed to install easily.</p><p></p><p>I ran bootcamp. Booted from the win cd and since I didn't want to use the mac partition at all, I deleted it! But I was careful not to delete the 200mbpartition that had the bootcamp loader(?) On it.</p><p></p><p>Following this the win install was aborted. </p><p></p><p>I tried to restart with my leopard DVD, but I started getting the "no bot disk... Message." tried the option button, the original Mac mini disks, everything. And nothing worked until I started up the computer with a win cd that that i have at home....</p><p></p><p>It's installing now.</p><p></p><p>Have i killed my mac and turned it into a pc?</p><p></p><p>I thought that i had fried my Mac, until in a</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samsixx, post: 1112914, member: 172769"] Hi all, I hope someone here can save me a trip to my local "genius." I thought that it would be a great idea to convert my mac mini into a windows server for the office. I read up on it and was supposed to install easily. I ran bootcamp. Booted from the win cd and since I didn't want to use the mac partition at all, I deleted it! But I was careful not to delete the 200mbpartition that had the bootcamp loader(?) On it. Following this the win install was aborted. I tried to restart with my leopard DVD, but I started getting the "no bot disk... Message." tried the option button, the original Mac mini disks, everything. And nothing worked until I started up the computer with a win cd that that i have at home.... It's installing now. Have i killed my mac and turned it into a pc? I thought that i had fried my Mac, until in a [/QUOTE]
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