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ladyassassin

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okay here's another troubleshoot using bootcamp. please bear with me as I am a real noob. this is my first time using mac.

i tried installing windows xp pro using bootcamp. it was installed successfully but i can't connect to the internet.. so i thought of downloading another windows iso from the internet. i decided to restore my partition. and as the problem of many, when i rebooted, it says something like insert reboot disc press any key to continue. i tried inserting the cd i've burn the windows xp but nothing happened. so i just rebooted again and pressed option. i tried removing the iso from the disk utility, rebooted and it's still the same.

what i want to know is, how would my laptop be back to normal? i don't want to press option everytime I will reboot? is there a way to bring it back to normal? as in like you never installed windows?

okay so i did the disk utility thing that bootcamp was saying..

back up the disk and use disk utility to format it as a Mac os extended (Journaled) volume. restore your information to the disk and try using bootcamp again.

so i have 2 Mac HD now in my desktop.. i can't restore them together. gives the error : Restore failure ; could not validate sizes, operation not permitted..

what should I do? when I restart, there are 2 os, mac and windows. but in my mac desktop, there are 2 mac HD.

please help!
 
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