... and no, the option key isn't working. My bro is on a 30 hour train ride and needs some help. The gray screen sits for about 10 seconds and proceeds to boot Windows 7, giving no option to boot the Mac partition, even while holding the option key. Any suggestions?
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Bootcamp booting straight to Windows
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There should be a Boot Camp icon in Control Panel where you can set the boot partition.
Can the Mac OS partition be seen from Windows?
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Go into the bootcamp menu when in windows, from there you should be able to restart straight into osx.
Strange that Alt/Option doesn't at least pull up the boot selector menu. Does your brother have a bootable CD/DVD that he could stick in there to at least see if the boot selector can be accessed?
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Since the drive is still visible, at least the media files should be accessible. Nothing VLC can't handle unless it is DRMed video, in which case iTunes/Quicktime could do it.
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