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I need urgently help. I think I did the worst thing I could on my mac.By mistake I used a recovery XP disk instead of the original copy with the Bootcamp assist. Then my PC turn off to make the instalation and it didnt display anything for 2 hours.. I desided to turn it of unplaging the battery as it didnt responding from the buttons.. When I turn it of again it started to reading the CD already inside a know it gives me errors that windows 98 cant allocate ram, or drive CD not found.
 

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Hello
I need urgently help. I think I did the worst thing I could on my mac.By mistake I used a recovery XP disk instead of the original copy with the Bootcamp assist. Then my PC turn off to make the instalation and it didnt display anything for 2 hours.. I desided to turn it of unplaging the battery as it didnt responding from the buttons.. When I turn it of again it started to reading the CD already inside a know it gives me errors that windows 98 cant allocate ram, or drive CD not found.

I'm really not sure exactly what it is you did, however, remove the CD by powering off and then power on again and hold down your mouse button while rebooting.

Go back into Boot Camp assistant and use restore. That will get your hard drive back to normal. (all OS X) Now start over with Boot Camp assistant and create a new partition for XP. Only this time use the correct XP CD to install. The XP CD must be a full install CD not an upgrade.

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I was able to extract the cd and to use restore from the BootCamp *** in order to eliminate any partition left behind but still when I reboot my PC if I will not press the alt button i will be asked to insert the " bootable cd"!!Only when alt is pressed I can switch it OS X
 
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I'm really not sure exactly what it is you did, however, remove the CD by powering off and then power on again and hold down your mouse button while rebooting.

Go back into Boot Camp assistant and use restore. That will get your hard drive back to normal. (all OS X) Now start over with Boot Camp assistant and create a new partition for XP. Only this time use the correct XP CD to install. The XP CD must be a full install CD not an upgrade.

Regards.
I was able to extract the cd and to use restore from the BootCamp *** in order to eliminate any partition left behind but still when I reboot my PC if I will not press the alt button i will be asked to insert the " bootable cd"!!Only when alt is pressed I can switch it OS X
 

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When you get into OSX open System Preferences and then Startup Disk. Click on the OSX Partition and click reboot. That should fix it.
 

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