Booting back to Mac OS
I have Windows 7 installed into a bootcamp partition. Everything works marvellously, but my problem is that when booting back into Mac OS I have to reset the clock which is always 14 hours advanced.
Has anyone else had this problem or a fix for it?
Hi
On the mac side launch System Preferences, click on the Date & Time Preferences Pane. Adjust your location by clicking on the Time Zone Tab. On the Date & Time Tab select an appropriate NTP Server. For where you are the asian one will do.
If this does not work manually adjust the clock to the correct time by un-ticking the "Set date and time automatically" option.
Tony
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Why wont it boot back into mac?
ive tried almost everything ive tried tech support and ive tried booting it from the start screen while holding down the option key and choosing mac but it keeps sending me back into windows
WHAT OS X do you have?
Tech support should have said to use Lion Recovery - Command-r or OS X OEM DVD (or retail)
I recommend installing OS X on a small 30GB volume as part of your TimeMachine drive, and then a 100GB volume partition to clone OS X with Carbon Copy Cloner
Option key is not so much "Held" down as tap at the right time or just hold MOUSE down to pause as if to ask for a CD/DVD.
Sounds like an issue for Lion more than Windows.
When you ARE in Windows then why not just use the Boot Camp Control Panel to set it to Mac OS X? that should work. -
from the boot camp control panel, highlighted "Macintosh HD Mac OS X", click on Restart button or click OK or click Apply buttons gave me "An error occurred while trying to change the startup disk. You may not have privileges to change the startup disk. Make sure you have administrative privileges and try again."
Im logged in to Windows 7 as admin thou but still giving me the above message.
i rebooted & the option key does not give me option to boot to Mac instead gives me a screen with lock then below is a blank field then a right arrow on the right side, i normally hit the power button from this screen
please help
thxsorry for digging up an old thread, but what was the problem?
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I have done a few searches, learned some good info along the way, but I notice that questions similar to this aren't getting any response.
Boot Camp seems to run fine, but 3 out of 4 times, when I exit the PC via the BootCamp System tray, the Mac stalls. Instead of chiming and loading Mac OS, it goes into a sleep mode (power LED is completely off, but I can hear & feel the HD spinning. The Mac does not recover from this mode, so I end up forcing the power off.
All fine, but I do not want to force a shut down 3-4 times a day.
Does the lack of response means there is no precedent for this issue?My error?
That is scary as I haven't really touched anything inside of Windows besides the PC software we installed it for. Not sure what I could have done to cause an error, although I'm no technician, hence the question here.
No battery here (Mac Pro) but I will find the IT guy and have him run WRE.
I can handle disk repair from the Mac side, however that has been done very recently.
Anymore suggestions/similar experiences from anyone else?
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ThanksHi.
Thanks.
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You may find the information in the article below helpful.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4536
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this is helpful to know.
thanks i will check into this.
man, this could be a bit of an issue over here which i have to wrap my head around...
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