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I have a relatively new mac pro 13" laptop. I installed Windows 7 about a month ago. All was working fine except now the computer will not boot up in either OS operating system nor Windows. Goes to windows by default and just flashing this symbol _ on screen and will not boot to windows or allow me to perform any other functions. What should I do?
 

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Well, for starters, let's move this over to the correct forum...

Secondly, you have a MacBook Pro, which is different from a Mac Pro (which is a desktop machine).

When you went to install Boot Camp, you were prompted to print out instructions. I'm going to venture to guess that you didn't do so - so, those instructions are here:

http://www.google.com/url?url=http:...sg=AFQjCNEnFtr9hupItCe21_r9Po_bqbvMfQ&cad=rja

It sounds like you have a botched Windows install. Hopefully you didn't nuke your Mac OS X partition during the process. If not, you should be able to boot into OS X, by turning the machine down and pressing and holding the Option key until the Startup Disk selection screen appears. Then, select Macintosh HD and the machine should boot into OS X.

At that point, you'll want to re-run the Boot Camp Assistant and choose to revert back to a single partition. Then, read the manual and go ahead and attempt to install Windows again, this time following the steps described in the manual.
 

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