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Re-partition... Fail!

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swb1192

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So I partitioned my MacBook's hard-drive so I could put Windows 7 on, using BootCamp. That all went well, except for some reason, the Windows 7 wouldn't work on the partition, according to the installation program. So I thought "Oh well, I already have Vista and XP on Parallels." I returned to OS X, and went to Disk Utility. I erased the partition I created, and when I tried to resize the original partition afterwards (so it took up the whole hard-drive again), it... failed. The computer froze.

I held down the power button for several seconds, and then it shut off. When I tried turning it on again, the computer said "No bootable device found. Insert bootable drive and press any key."

(Just for giggles: imagine a 16-year-old kid who paid $1600 to get a computer in this situation. Yeah, that's me.)

After I calmed down from my panic attack, I restarted it again and held down the option key. Thankfully, it gave me the option of starting in "Macintosh HD." Everything fixed... right?

Wrong.

I was on the MacRumors forums when my computer froze (stupid "grey screen," and it makes your music skip over and over which is really annoying). When I shut it off and turned it on again, once again it gave the same warning about a bootable device!

What do I have to do to make it so the HD is the bootable device?
 
have you boot from your OSX dvd and run disk utility to repair your HDD..if not try it to repair your hdd and boot up again to see if everything is ok.

pop in the osx dvd> boot from it> when the dvd runs..go to the menu in your taskbar and select disk utility and run it from your OSX dvd and click repair ..let it do its thing when its done restart your mac to see if it back to normal .

if everything works your can try the partition again for windows vista.
 
the same happened to me lol, and im also a 16 year old kid who sent almost 2000 on mine haha, and all i did was pop the osx discs in and restore everything..the way i look at it is, a little bit of lost data and a functional computer. Or spending 2 grand and not having a functional machine because of my stupid curiosity.:D
 
i ran into somewhat the same problem. i ended up copying my "macintosh HD" partition to an external hard drive and completely reformatting the computer, then copy the macintosh hd partition back from the external
 
Just so you know, you're not supposed to use Disk Utility to delete the Boot Camp partition. You're supposed to go back into Boot Camp Assistant.
 
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