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dblades

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Nov 30, 2009
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I have installed Windows 7 on a mac book pro.... I would now like to revert to OSX but cannot seem to boot from the mac dvd..... can anyone please tell me how I get the macbook to boot on the osx disk so that i can access disc utility to format and re-install osx

many thanks in advance

David
 
Have you tried holding down the Option/Alt key or the C key when you reboot?

This is why we usually tell folks to make sure they can still boot OS X from a flash drive or other external drive if they want to go WIndows only.

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