I switched from OS to boot camp (I have my MacBook partioned 60/40 OS and PC) and had a persistent spinning wheel on a black background. I could not force quit and eventually just hit the power button and then turned the computer back on and it rebooted into Microsoft 7. What happened and should I be concerned?
Spinning wheel on a black screen
- Thread starter whitfi
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Boot up and hold the the option button and see if the Mac OS X partition stills exists, click on it to boot into Mac OS X. You can go into System Preferences > Startup Disk and ensure the Mac OS X parttion is highlighted.
If there is no Mac OS Partition, afraid you gave formatted in NTFS and done the Windows install over it. It is very easy to do and I did it on two seperate occasions before deciding I did not really have to suffer Windows. If this is the case you will have to boot into Recovery and dwnload a new operating system from the App Store.
If there is no Mac OS Partition, afraid you gave formatted in NTFS and done the Windows install over it. It is very easy to do and I did it on two seperate occasions before deciding I did not really have to suffer Windows. If this is the case you will have to boot into Recovery and dwnload a new operating system from the App Store.
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