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robj

macrumors regular
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Dec 23, 2009
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Madrid, Spain
Hello,

I've just installed a Windows 7 using bootcamp, all the installation went without any problems, but when I try to boot the Win7 partition it shows a blinking cursor a long time, then it boots windows and everything works perfectly.

I have read that this problem is related to some BIOS operation that the activated-by-other-means windows 7 copy does. It would be great if there's a solution to this issue because it's very annoying. But anyway it's the price for not buying the things in the right way ;) (I'm only use windows a few times and I want to try Win7, so I'm not planning to pay such a expensive price for a full price license)

However, My worries are in other directions, does this BIOS things, harm in any way to the regular OSX boot process?? Actually OSX boots as usual.
 
Macs don't have a BIOS. :)

So no, nothing bad will happen.

Did you install all the drivers and such? Never heard of a blinking cursor.
 
Did you install all the drivers and such? Never heard of a blinking cursor.

Yes, I installed Bootcamp 3.0 and then upgrade to 3.1. I did a quick search for this blinking cursor and it seems this is caused by using a "pirated" copy of Windows 7 and its mechanism to bypass windows activation.
 
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