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hi
My friend has a 17" MB Pro running Leopard. The computer froze whilst in Win 7 on a Boot Camp partition. The machine was switched off as there was nothing else to do. Now the machine will not start in Windows, or Mac. When she starts it and goes to the MAC drive, the apple symbol appears, but then nothing happens.
Is there anyway to boot into safe mode, or reset the settings to boot again?
Thanks for any help.

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My friend has a 17" MB Pro running Leopard. The computer froze whilst in Win 7 on a Boot Camp partition. The machine was switched off as there was nothing else to do. Now the machine will not start in Windows, or Mac. When she starts it and goes to the MAC drive, the apple symbol appears, but then nothing happens.
Is there anyway to boot into safe mode, or reset the settings to boot again?
I'd boot with an "option" key held down. After several minutes this should show the available boot volumes. Pick the Mac boot volume, click the right-facing arrow, then immediately after the startup tone hold down a shift key to invoke a "safe mode" boot. This Apple document explains the details:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
If you can boot into OS X in "safe" mode, that's at least a start toward recovery.

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