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DavisP

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Original poster
May 4, 2010
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Hello!
Today I installed windows 7 on my Mac. And now i'm using it. But the problem is that I can't change back to Mac. I haven't deleted anything, Windows is installed on Bootcamp.

Can somebody tell me what to do next?
 

gnasher729

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Nov 25, 2005
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Hello!
Today I installed windows 7 on my Mac. And now i'm using it. But the problem is that I can't change back to Mac. I haven't deleted anything, Windows is installed on Bootcamp.

Can somebody tell me what to do next?

If you installed it properly and have MacOS X and Windows 7 on your computer, then hold the option key (the one with "alt" printed on it) while rebooting your computer, and you'll be shown two hard drive images; one with MacOS X and one with Windows.

If you made a mistake and overwrote MacOS X while installing Windows, then it's gone :mad: The same step (option key during reboot) will only show a Windows drive that you can boot from.

If MacOS X is there and you want to always boot into MacOS X except when you hold the option key down, then boot into MacOS X, then in System Preferences choose "Startup Disk". If it is not there then I think you have to start all over again. Post for more help if that is the case.
 
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