Hello to everyone - I'm new here and looking to solve a difficult problem. In short I botched my bootcamp by using Paragon disc manager in Windows, to copy the same partition to an external drive, when it prompted me for a restart to continue. What I got was a black screen with a flashing - hyphen and 5 dots below it.
I then tried the Paragon DVD to repair the Bootcamp boot partition and got the same screen upon reboot.
I then tried the mac installation disc and no keyboard command would work from the bluetooth keyboard on my new 27 inch iMac. It has new freshly charged batteries which I changed again and still nothing. It only worked when pressing C with the Paragon disc. I'm stuck and yes the mouse works because we had to use it to extract the disk. The eject command on the kb didn't work.
So I'm left with the black screen and a kb that works selectively. I don't get it. I can't break through to mac or windows. Please help.
I then tried the Paragon DVD to repair the Bootcamp boot partition and got the same screen upon reboot.
I then tried the mac installation disc and no keyboard command would work from the bluetooth keyboard on my new 27 inch iMac. It has new freshly charged batteries which I changed again and still nothing. It only worked when pressing C with the Paragon disc. I'm stuck and yes the mouse works because we had to use it to extract the disk. The eject command on the kb didn't work.
So I'm left with the black screen and a kb that works selectively. I don't get it. I can't break through to mac or windows. Please help.