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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