stuck in windows 7

[TGaist]

Hello everybody!

I recently obtained a copy of windows 7 which I wanted to install on my bootcamp partition on my mac pro. I did this yesterday, but I am not sure whether I've installed it on the wrong partition, because I'm pretty much stuck in the windows partition. I have tried every little trick I know and I can't get in touch with the mac part. I really don't know what to do!

 

[RandomKamikaze]

Have you tried this:

With Boot Camp, there's no menu. Instead, you are instructed to hold down the Option key when you hear the Mac's "bong" sound at reboot. You hold this key down until you see a graphical boot menu appears (Figure). There are two hard disk images on the menu, with the words "Macintosh HD" on one and "Windows" on the other. An arrow is pointing up at the current selection, and you can move the arrow from choice to choice with the arrow keys on the keyboard. You press Enter to make a selection.

This menu only appears when you press down the Option key as noted previously, and will otherwise cause the Mac to boot into whatever OS you chose last time. (Apple does, however, add a new Startup Disk control panel to XP that duplicates the functionality of the Startup Disk System Preferences panel in OS X; this allows you to tell it to boot into XP or Mac OS X by default without having to access the boot menu.) I feel this system is overly simplistic and non-discoverable, and should be made to work more like the Windows boot menu we get on PCs. But I would point out that this is just a first beta release, and it could get better over time.

taken from http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/apple_boot_camp.asp

 

[TGaist]

yes I have tried this numerous times and it still boots into windows 7, although the "bong" sound is there at startup I can't seem to acces mac whether I press option, c or x. it just redirects me to the windows repair and help (black and white) screen. Is it possible that I have somehow deleted the leopard on my mac pro?

 

[TGaist]

I could really use some advice. I'm quite desperate!

 

[surflordca]

I am thinking that you erased everything when you installed Windows. Reinstall your MAC OS. I use VMware Fusion to run Windows...

 

[angemon89]

Are you sure you're holding down the option key? That SHOULD show you all the bootable devices and it shouldn't just take you directly to the windows partition.

I'm pretty sure there's no way (at least easy way) to accidentally delete OSX. You need OSX's boot camp in order to be able to install Windows.