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Want windows 7 as Default OS

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Mycatisbigfoot

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Jun 22, 2009
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Hey guys,
When ever I turn on my mac It goes right in to OSX I would like it ether to go to the OS select panel. or to boot in to windows 7
The mac side does not see the windows boot option in the "boot disk setting"


I have been with macs for the since 2001 but Leaving it behind (I need cheap stuff" as I am in school and no job and need a new desktop as my g4 is to old, so yea,

But is there a way to make windows 7 default ?
 
just do the following but select the bootcamp partition with windows on it, instead of Mac OS ;)

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_force_boot_camp_to_boot_into_mac_os_x.html

*edit* ok confused now, you say you've got an iMac? but your desktop is a G4? you cant install windows on a PPC based system, it just wont work,

if you want a basic PC for windows then just buy a pc, it'd be a lot cheaper then buying a new Mac for that sole purpose
 
ugh (English is not good when I am tired)

My coumputer with 7 on it is a mac book (I never said I had an imac) I posed this in the Macbook,
I use a power mac g4 as my mac books disk drive broke and apple is going to charge me to fix it,

I have also done that but in the mac setting for boot disk does not show windows 7, Never has but showed Xp and vista,
 
Mycatisbigfoot said:
ugh (English is not good when I am tired)

My coumputer with 7 on it is a mac book (I never said I had an imac) I posed this in the Macbook,
I use a power mac g4 as my mac books disk drive broke and apple is going to charge me to fix it,

I have also done that but in the mac setting for boot disk does not show windows 7, Never has but showed Xp and vista,
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your after a new computer because your hard drive has died?

just buy a new one, depending on the spec of your machine i'd guess it's gonna take a 2.5" sata running upto 7200Rpm? look on ebay for one you should be able to pick up anything between 160Gb and 500Gb for not a lot of money ;)
 
no Disk drive, where you put disks in,
If it was the hard drive it would of been fixed I have an old one lying around,
\But tell me how to get 7 as the default.
 
I've done that like over 9000 times, never worked it worked frin for Vista and Xp, It work for 7 yet,

is there some some sort of command i can do in the unix program?
 
System Preferences > Startup Disk > Click the Windows disk. If it's not there try Boot CampAssistant again, or try it from Windows Boot camp control panel.
 
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