Alternate way to boot up into MacOS/Windows?

Hi! I just bought a Mac Mini and I recently installed Windows XP SP3 for dual boot. The only problem I have is that I don't have an Apple keyboard/mouse, so I can't use Option/Alt on startup to choose what partition to boot with. I bought this computer for my mother, and since she's not 100% technologically inclined, I was wondering if I could create a shortcut on the Mac desktop so she can restart into Windows if she needs to go into it. I feel that even I write her instructions on how to go into control panels to change the startup disk, she might not be able to. I'd greatly appreciate it!

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
personally I use rEFI thttp://refit.sourceforge.net/ as a Boot-Menu for quite some time now.
BootPicker http://www.apple.com/education/resources/bootpicker/ would be another one.
Regards
Stefan

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HT4718 Are there alternate ways to boot in recovery mode?

The original problem: 2007 era Macbook Pro display goes bad.
Solution: We bought a new macbook pro. It was time for an upgrade.
The opportunity: We decided to connect the old pro to an external display and use it in clamshell mode and set it up for the kids to use.
I attempted to delete my wife's user account, yet the machine still shows 88 gigs used when clearly the two new users I set up (one administrator) are not using so much. I thought if I could reinstall OSX that my problems would be solved. Not only am I not worried about losing data in a reinstall - I want to.
The current problem: I cannot boot this mac into recovery mode while it is in Clamshell.
I am using a wireless apple keypoard, but can really only boot up using the restart option as the power button is closed up in the clamshelled laptop. But when I do that it appears to me that the wireless keyboard is not connecting in time for the recovery mode to catch.
I thought the simple solution would be to open up the old beast and use the actual power button. Good news is that when I do this, it must boot into recover mode. Bad news is that evidently recovery mode does not allow mirroring of the display. So I cannot actually see my recovery mode. My external display is simply a secondary display - greyed out, and all I can do is wave the cursor back and forth.
So: Are there any alternate ways to boot into recovery mode?

Have you followed these instructions?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Edit; As far as the data you could either do a clean install, or use
OmniDisksweeper can help you find what's hogging your disk space.
Some of it is likely Local Snaphots from Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878

I have a MacBook 10.5.8 with Boot Camp. I can only operate the Windows side. When I move into MacOS it does not open.

I have a MacBook 10.5.8 with Boot Camp. I can only operate the Windows side. When I move into MacOS it does not open.

Your phrasing is not clear. How do you reboot into Mac OS? /can you describe the process step by step?
Usually, you should do like this:
- while in win, restart
- immediately after chime, press option or alt key
- wait for 2-3 seconds, you should see the boot options
- select Mac OS partition
If you have performed all these steps, and, after choosing Mac OS partition, you cannot boot into Mac OS, then your system is corrupt and should be reinstalled.

Triple boot MacOS/Windows/Linux

I managed to install triple boot environment: MacOS 10.7 (Lion) + Windows 7 (Ultimate) + Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). If someone wants to know how I managed it I explained i below and my questions will come at the end of this thread.
Installation of MacOS
Firstly on my HDD /dev/sda with Disk Utility I created only one partition (whole HDD as one partiton) with GUID Partition Table (GPT partition sheme) because it is required by Lion and after that I regularly installed Lion on it.
Installation of Windows
Afterwards I splitted my only partition into three partitions (two partitions were added and first one was shrinked) with Apple's Disk Utility again. It is important to create additional partition with Disk Utility because that way it will tailor GPT partition scheme accordingly. After that I started Windows 7 installation and during installation process I deleted and recreated second partition and formated it. Deleting old and recreating second partition with partitioner within Windows installation process I created paralell MBR partition scheme with definition of partition that Windows 7 can understand and use. It is important to note that it is not allowed to create new partition for windows of different size because this will be partition defined in MBR partition scheme and it will be out of sync with GPT partition scheme. (One has to understand that we deal here with two parallel different partition schemas - GPT and MBR - and they have to be in sync meaning that definition of partitions on disk have to be the same in both schemes.) If you created new partition in Windows partitioner, it would be defined only in MBR partitions scheme but not in GPT and it will result in some problems with Linux installation. So I firstly created partitions (defined GPT partition scheme) with Disk Utility, and afterwards created windows partition on the same place of the same size in MBR partition scheme (during Windows installation process). Then I installed Windows 7 on that second partition.
Installation of Linux
Finally I started Ubuntu installation and installed it on third partition and install GRUB boot loadre in /dev/sda (MBR).
MacOS is booted by default. But when I hold alt/option button during boot I was offered with two boot options; first one MacOS (disk icon) starting Lion and second one Windows (disk icon) starting GRUB linux boot loader. After starting GRUB I am offered boot menu to start Windows/Mac/Ubuntu.
My question is how to define that GRUB is default boot loader?

With Bootcamp tool you cannot create a triple boot scheme. Bootcamp only splits HDD space into two working partitions. (Actually there are additional EFI and Recovery partitions but I will ignore them). One workng partition is for MacOS and another left for Windows. It does not leave partition or empty sace for Linux installation.
What you have to do:
1) boot into MacOS and go into Disk Utility, delete the BOOTCAMP partition where your Windows now reside,
2) in Disk Utility add two new partitions (define wanted size and name them e.g. WINDOWS and LINUX)
3) boot with Windows DVD and format new created WINDOWS partition (delete and create it if you need)
4) install Windows into this new formated WINDWOS partition, reboot and finish Windows installation
5) boot with Linux DVD and start installation, install (define root) in LINUX partition, (leave bootloader to be installed in /dev/sda)
Linux does not need additional swap partition like it required in the past. Now Linux works fine with swap in form of file like Windows. There are some other partitions like EFI at the beginning of HDD but you have t leave and ignore it.
It is important to note that you have to tailor partitions of your HDD with Mac's Disk Utility because it will define them in both GPT (EFI needed for MacOS and Linux) as well as in MBR tables (needed for Windows). Later during installation of Windows you will format the partition dedicated to Windows but you must not change partition scheme (position and size of that partition created previously with Disk Utility) otherwise you will loose sync between GPT and MBR partition schemes.

[SOLVED] Can't boot back into windows

Been a while since I had to install Arch but my previous PC died so I tried installing it on my new one. When I installed it last time, there was no EUFI and it was a simple Grub installation. When I installed it, I disabled eufi from my bios to legacy grub. I installed Arch like normal but os-probe didn't seem to work. Although it detected my OS, it did not make an entry for windows in the grub, When I re-enable EUFI from bios, it just goes straight to GRUB cmd line.
Here's the output for fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 946.4 GiB, 1016218828800 bytes, 1984802400 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A3D81761-F777-4399-9F81-01E346CDC93F
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1988607 970M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 1988608 3708927 840M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda3 3708928 4241407 260M EFI System
/dev/sda4 4241408 4503551 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda5 4503552 1123987926 533.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda6 1905238016 1953523711 23G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda7 1953525168 1984798127 14.9G unknown
/dev/sda8 1123989504 1900040191 370.1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9 1900040192 1905238015 2.5G Linux swap
and os-prober
$ sudo os-prober
No volume groups found
/dev/sda3:Windows 8 (loader):Windows:chain
Arch is installed on sda8/sda9 and wndows is on sda3/4/5/6. There also seems to be a seperate "boot" drive sdb that only shows up when eufi is enabled. Can anyone help me figure out how to boot into my windows partition? thanks
edit: here's grub.cfg
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
if [ "${next_entry}" ] ; then
set default="${next_entry}"
set next_entry=
save_env next_entry
set boot_once=true
else
set default="0"
fi
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt8'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_input console
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ x$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then
set timeout_style=menu
set timeout=5
# Fallback normal timeout code in case the timeout_style feature is
# unavailable.
else
set timeout=5
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_archlinux ###
menuentry "Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel" --class arch-linux --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
fi
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod ext2
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
fi
echo 'Loading Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea rw
echo 'Loading Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel initramfs ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
menuentry "Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel (fallback initramfs)" --class arch-linux --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
fi
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod ext2
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
fi
echo 'Loading Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea rw
echo 'Loading Arch Linux pkg-linux kernel fallback initramfs ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
### END /etc/grub.d/10_archlinux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Arch Linux' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt8'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
fi
echo 'Loading Linux linux ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea rw
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
submenu 'Advanced options for Arch Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea' {
menuentry 'Arch Linux, with Linux linux' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-linux-advanced-6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,gpt8'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
fi
echo 'Loading Linux linux ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea rw
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/60_memtest86+ ###
if [ "${grub_platform}" == "pc" ]; then
menuentry "Memory Tester (memtest86+)" --class memtest86 --class gnu --class tool {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt8 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt8 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt8 6a6f6015-3793-4978-8c19-5abd44c63aea
linux16 /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/60_memtest86+ ###
Last edited by giok13 (2014-04-24 15:20:31)

dice wrote:
As you have disabled UEFI during arch installation your grub was installed in mbr mode and not EFI.
Your Windows installation is probably installed in UEFI mode.
So when you enable UEFI grub doesn't work correctly. And in legacy mode Windows won't boot.
See here for details https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI
Yea, I figured it out last night after spending hours on it. For anyone that might be having the same problem as me: Re-installed grub with os-prober and it detected windows successfully. Added the entry into grub correctly as well. But when I tried to boot into windows, it said my bcd was corrupted. Apparently when I was trying everything, I formatted the entire /boot partition so there was no way for windows to boot. After hours of trying to figure out how to restore the partition, I went into bios and re-enabled UEFI, safe boot, fast boot. It restored the /boot partition and let me get into windows. Then disabled safe boot and fast boot, booted arch live cd and installed gummiboot.

IMac boots straight into Windows 7

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AMD/ATI fglrx and 3d, only after booting first into windows

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tacita wrote:MrWeatherbee: thank you for the link, i have searched high and low (maybe in the wrong places) and didnt find anything before.
Cerebral: yes, but then i guess it is a nice excuse to upgrade. And stay away from the Nforce3.
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Can't boot back into OSX after installing windows 8.1

I have a late 2013 MacBook pro 15 inch with retina display.
After I got windows 8.1 up and running with a disk copy I tried to go back to the mac os side, but after I held down option/alt after restarting and clicked on the osx partition but all that happened was a white "no sign" showed on the screen and my computer began to boot back into windows.
I don't know if all my mac stuff is gone, so should I try and use osx recovery?

Try this first. Do a backup. Boot to the Recovery Volume (command - R on a restart or hold down the option/alt key during a restart and select Recovery Volume). Run Disk Utility Verify/Repair and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Then re-install the OS.
OS X Recovery
OS X Recovery (2)

Help when i boot into the windows 7 instal disk it freezes at windows loading files

Help when i boot into the windows 7 instal disk it freezes at windows loading files.

1. Have you tried both Alt keys - maybe your Alt key is dead.
2. Do you have wireless keyboard? Have you tried to change batteries? USB Keyboard?
3. If your Win is installed correctly then you have also installed all windows support software.
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Alternate way of finding the Windows Reference Number

Hello,
I am using some of the Windows Utilities VIs and I have run into a snag. In my application I lauch multiple template VIs and hence have many Windows that have the same name. This causes a bit of confusion when using a VI like "Flash Title Bar" which takes in a window's name to determine it's reference number. MY question is, is there an alternative method of finding out a window's reference number without having to supply the window's name? Something that determines each window's unique number. I checked various Application and VI Properties without much luck. Perhaps is there some way of converting VI reference to Windows Reference. I dunno. Any ideas???
Thanks fellow LabVIEWers,
Glen D.

AstroMed Glen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using some of the Windows Utilities VIs and I have run into
> a snag. In my application I lauch multiple template VIs and hence have
> many Windows that have the same name. This causes a bit of confusion
> when using a VI like "Flash Title Bar" which takes in a window's name
> to determine it's reference number. MY question is, is there an
> alternative method of finding out a window's reference number without
> having to supply the window's name? Something that determines each
> window's unique number. I checked various Application and VI
> Properties without much luck. Perhaps is there some way of converting
> VI reference to Windows Reference. I dunno. Any ideas???
Hmm, try attached VI. LabVIEW 7.0 and higher only!
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions
Attachments:
WIN_Get_Front_Panel_Refnum.vi ‏31 KB

HT1296 I have just downloaded a TV show from the iTunes store into my Window 7 PC. Is there a way to burn the show onto a DVD so I can watch in on my television?

I have just made my first download of a TV show from the iTunes store into my Windows 7 PC. Ping is managing my media. Can I burn this TV show to a DVD so that I can watch it on my TV?

No

Just loaded windows 7 on a macbook pro - how do you dual boot OS X and windows 7

Hi successfully loaded windows 7 and partitioned drive (I need windows for work Microsoft crm system)
All ok but a pain to have to keep logging off and on between OS X & Windows
I understand that there is a way to dual boot - I am running Snow Leopard on a macbook pro lap top OS x 10.6.7
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Ian

You can install Parallels or Fusion, either will work. When you setup either Parallels or fusion you can tell it to use your already installed Boot Camp installation of Windows as its target guest operating system.
You would then just boot into OSx, start your VM (Parallels or Fusion), then you'll have access to both OSx and Windows without having to reboot.
I have this setup and two monitors. I have my Windows running on my external monitor and OSx running on my Macbook Pro monitor at the same time.
Beware that you will need to re-register Windows to get a second key. This is free and easily done either online or by calling the Microsoft registration number. The reason for needing a second key is that Windows, although only installed once in your Boot Camp partition sees the virtual hardware created by your virtual machine and thinks it has been reinstalled on a new computer.

Boot Camp 3.0 + Windows XP SP3 + Apple Wireless Keyboard

Hello,
I'm using a 24" iMac (early 2009), dual-booting OS X and Windows XP, and I'm having trouble connecting my Apple Bluetooth keyboard when running Windows. I go through the Bluetooth setup until I'm prompted to input a passkey, but before I'm able to do so, the step is skipped and I'm told the device was installed properly. A few seconds later however, an error message pops up saying there was a problem during hardware installation, and that my hardware may not work properly. It doesn't work at all, and I've tried the regedit trick, but I don't have a "Widcomm" folder anywhere in my registry.
I've recently updated my Boot Camp drivers to 3.0, and I think it's worth noting that before doing so, the keyboard functioned fine. Any ideas?
Thanks,
- Ben

MY problem is with: Leopard Snow & Boot camp; XPSP3; Wireless Apple keyboard and mouse.
Problem: I am a lefty. So on the OSX ( snow leopard) side I have my primary and secondary buttons switched. So I would like to have it the same way in XPSP3. I have tried pairing with the 0000 pairing code, letting windows choose, and with no pass code. Nothing works.
First of all, after it pairs, I get a mouse that has its standard setup, except that the right click (secondary button) doesn't always work. Then I go into the cpanel mouse settings and I click switch buttons and it gets worse. Both buttons become secondary buttons( right click). Its driving me crazy... the track pad works fine the whole time before and after the button switching.
I am also having a problem with the wireless apple keyboard. I can't get it to pair up and stay. It keeps getting erased.
By the way, while I'm pairing with both hardware items, this happens : After choosing how I'd like to pair the hardware item (either - no pass code, let windows choose my pass corde, etc), I then click next. It immediately asks me to to input ( mouse obv i cant) the pass code on the wireless item, but within a nano second it jumps to straight to the finish window (within the bluetooth wizard). On the task bar it tells me "harware.... successful" , but then the hardware wizard pops up asking me to connect to the internet : I 've tried canceling, i've tried one time, i've tried never and clicked through an it will load the hid driver for both and then it tells me "harware.... successful" again.
Yet nothing works the mouse has issues and the keyboard isn't paired!!!!
Please help,
A very frustrated mac user that wishes the world would use mac and not pcs.....

Dual Booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows on a RAID 1 setup

Hi,
I just bought a Lenovo W530 with Windows 7 and two 500GB hard drives in a RAID 1 setup, is there a way for me to install Linux with dual boot while maintaing my RAID 1 setup?
Thanks.

Hi
Welcome To Lenovo Community
if you want both in a raid on two drives, there is no way simpler than using fakeraid.
Windows simply has only the fakeraid as a software raid and can't be run from a linux software raid. An Ubuntu 10.10 install to fakeraid is relatively simple but should not be undertaken without some understanding of what a raid install looks like or behaves.
As a starter, some simple rules have to be followed:
1) Install Win 7 first
2) If Win 7 occupies the whole raid drive, use Win 7 disk manager to shrink it to make room for Ubuntu.
3) Use gparted on a live cd to place all your unallocated space for installing Ubuntu into an extended partition. This will insure that you will not likely exceed the 4 primary partition limit and thus bar an Ubuntu install.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1600991
Hope This Helps
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Boot Camp formatting the windows Partition -XP- I DIDNT! NOW GOT BIG PROBS!

Well Hi everyone, here goes in public! *I didn't read the manual carefully enough*
So, got that out the way, when the XP disc finishes instal and restarts i get the blank dos screen with:
'disk Error, press any key to restart'
but my keyboard has been completely frozen, the only way to restart is a forced restart with the power button.
Even when i try a forced start from the mac os instal DVD, you know- restart - 'D' key all i get is the apple hardware test utility which works only with my mouse and doesn't go any further in helping free my keyboard. although it does say there's no problem with the hardware.
i have important info on my Mac partition and need to recover that.
Is there any way of freeing the keyboard so i can try again?
Any help will be greatly, and humbly, appreciated.
PS. I've already looked at other threads and they all seem to have working keyboards, if i can get mine working i may be able to follow their advice.

I've had to go through this a number of times, and it's just something that you cannot get around.
When you're setting up boot camp, if you choose 32Gb as your Windows partition, it will use the FAT32 format. When you boot from your Windows disk, as you would with a PC that you already know has a disk formatted to FAT32, you would select "Leave file system intact" under the format options. You cannot do this. You HAVE TO select "Format as FAT32".
If you leave the FS intact, it will install part of the OS and reboot, and you'll get this screen. What you would to then is hold the power button down for 10 sec, restart the machine and immediately press and hold the C key. This will tell the machine to boot from the CD, in this case, the Windows install disk. Once you do this, go in and tell the installer to format the drive.
If for whatever reason this doesn't work, boot back into OS X by restarting and holding the "Option/Alt", select Macintosh HD. Once OS X boots, find the boot camp assistant and give the Windows partition back to OS X, and start over.
So long as you DON'T select "Leave file system intact", you will not have to deal with this.

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