Hello, sorry if this isnt the right place for posting I'm desperatly in need of any assistance.
I've had a 24'' aluminum Imac - 500gb harddrive running leopard since december, I wisely decided today to be a smart arse and install bootcamp, I was given a disk by my cousin he assured me it had sp2 he'd used it to install bootcamp before with no isses for a friend - and sure enough its all gone horrifically wrong.
now I know - I did read the PDF with instructions, I read a good few walk throughs on how to do it but I'm an idiot for not printing them out to help when everything went wrong.
I made a 20gb partion to install windows, followed the onscreen bootcamp instructions and went ahead inserted the disk and everything was fine up until the format screen, there was only one drive to format c: drive and nothing else no mention of bootcamp beside it so I decided to go back and work out where I'd gone wrong, as soon as the disk was removed and the computer restarted it refuses to load back to OS, all I'm getting is a black screen with a white underscore flashing.
I've reset the pram, i've tried to boot from the install cd but as soon as I get to the main window and open disk utility it wont let me change anything, I can neither repair the disk or permissions, infact none of the options are available at all.
I know I haven't wiped the original OS, so I desperatly didn't want to reinstall from scratch, eventually I gave up and tried to reinstall from the original leopard disks and when I get to the screen asking where to install leopard it givesme no option, so physically I can't install it. And now its impossible to remove the disk from the drive at all, eject button, holding the mouse down, I even tried ejecting it via terminal and its not showing any signs of budging.
Is my computer toast?
please help if you can, I've been googling since 1am to try and fix it alone but its just not willing to give an inch. you're my last hope before I give up and call apple, which I really really don't want to do. :/
I've had a 24'' aluminum Imac - 500gb harddrive running leopard since december, I wisely decided today to be a smart arse and install bootcamp, I was given a disk by my cousin he assured me it had sp2 he'd used it to install bootcamp before with no isses for a friend - and sure enough its all gone horrifically wrong.
now I know - I did read the PDF with instructions, I read a good few walk throughs on how to do it but I'm an idiot for not printing them out to help when everything went wrong.
I made a 20gb partion to install windows, followed the onscreen bootcamp instructions and went ahead inserted the disk and everything was fine up until the format screen, there was only one drive to format c: drive and nothing else no mention of bootcamp beside it so I decided to go back and work out where I'd gone wrong, as soon as the disk was removed and the computer restarted it refuses to load back to OS, all I'm getting is a black screen with a white underscore flashing.
I've reset the pram, i've tried to boot from the install cd but as soon as I get to the main window and open disk utility it wont let me change anything, I can neither repair the disk or permissions, infact none of the options are available at all.
I know I haven't wiped the original OS, so I desperatly didn't want to reinstall from scratch, eventually I gave up and tried to reinstall from the original leopard disks and when I get to the screen asking where to install leopard it givesme no option, so physically I can't install it. And now its impossible to remove the disk from the drive at all, eject button, holding the mouse down, I even tried ejecting it via terminal and its not showing any signs of budging.
Is my computer toast?
please help if you can, I've been googling since 1am to try and fix it alone but its just not willing to give an inch. you're my last hope before I give up and call apple, which I really really don't want to do. :/