Boot Camp Issues

Derek Chesterfield dez at mac.com
Thu Nov 8 13:37:37 PST 2007


Sound like you just need to reset the Startup Disk in System  
Preferences?
[I have no answer about your Boot Camp issues - sorry!]

On 8 Nov 2007, at 20:32, LuKreme wrote:
> OK, i tried to install Boot Camp, and failed several times.  First,  
> I tried to partition the second internal drive on my machine.  That  
> failed with a 'could not move some files' error.
>
> So, I cleared that drive of all files and tried again.  This time  
> the partition worked, but when I rebooted off the windows disc, it  
> would not install because it had to 'write startup files to the  
> disk' and the disk was not the startup disk.
>
> Fine, I rebooted back, removed the Boot Camp partition, and tried to  
> partition the boot drive.  That failed, again because some files  
> could not be moved (??).
>
> OK, fin.  Trouble is that now, whenever the machine restarts, like  
> for the recent QT update, I get a black screen with a 'no startup  
> disk found' error.  I have to boot to the boot menu (which only  
> shows one option) and then continue on to OS X.
>
> So, my thinking is that something in the EFI is set to try to do a  
> boot to a windows CD, but I can't seem to fix it.


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