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+ikari911+ · 08-15-2009

Okay, so I just got a new MacBook Pro from Best Buy. I wanted a Mac, but in order to play Windows games, I also got a copy of Windows Vista and was assured that I could run both on the computer. So I opened up Boot Camp, and partitioned 32 Gigabytes on my drive for Windows to run on. I then inserted the Vista installation CD, and selected a drive to install it into. I selected the 32-GB drive with the "Boot Camp" label, but the Windows program told me this drive had to be "reformatted" in order to install Windows on it. So, since this was merely the 32-GB partitioned drive, I figured it made no difference and went ahead with it. Windows did manage to install successfully (albeit with some problems of its own - it interacts weirdly with the touch pad and tells me I have no Internet-connectable devices on my computer) but now I can't switch it back to Mac. I have looked all over the system options, I've searched, I've looked at the startup menu, everything. I can't figure out how to switch it back. This is bugging the hell out of me. Now I can't get on the Internet on that computer, or even use any of the other features it came with for that matter. If anyone can offer some assistance I would be greatly appreciative.

08-15-2009	#1 (permalink)
+ikari911+ The Chrono Trigger Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: US of A, to the East Posts: 558 Points: 2,066 Thanks: 0 Thanked 14 Times in 14 Posts	[HELP NEEDED] Vista on a Mac? Okay, so I just got a new MacBook Pro from Best Buy. I wanted a Mac, but in order to play Windows games, I also got a copy of Windows Vista and was assured that I could run both on the computer. So I opened up Boot Camp, and partitioned 32 Gigabytes on my drive for Windows to run on. I then inserted the Vista installation CD, and selected a drive to install it into. I selected the 32-GB drive with the "Boot Camp" label, but the Windows program told me this drive had to be "reformatted" in order to install Windows on it. So, since this was merely the 32-GB partitioned drive, I figured it made no difference and went ahead with it. Windows did manage to install successfully (albeit with some problems of its own - it interacts weirdly with the touch pad and tells me I have no Internet-connectable devices on my computer) but now I can't switch it back to Mac. I have looked all over the system options, I've searched, I've looked at the startup menu, everything. I can't figure out how to switch it back. This is bugging the hell out of me. Now I can't get on the Internet on that computer, or even use any of the other features it came with for that matter. If anyone can offer some assistance I would be greatly appreciative. __________________ "What was the start of all this? Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that answer now, from deep within the flow of time... but, for a certainty, back then, we loved so many, yet hated so much, hurt others and were hurt ourselves. Yet even then we ran like the wind, whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies..."