I partitioned a small drive for a windows program, and now the computer only wants to boot to Windows. How do I get back to Mac so I can have a choice of drives?
I partitioned a small drive for a windows program, and now the computer only wants to boot to Windows. How do I get back to Mac so I can have a choice of drives?
That doesn't sound good. It sounds like the power outage might have corrupted the partition for OS X. I would suggest booting from the Install DVD that came with your Mac while holding down the C key. Once you have selected the language start up Disk Utility from the pull down menu and repair the disk. Once you have done that then repair permissions also.
Allan
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Only happens sometimesIf you can somehow document any processes you've put the MacBook
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sure to write down the sequence of events if your action and resulting
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one looking deeper to find the real cause of this problem. {If you have
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display some curious content other than a black screen, such as that
seen in a kernel panic or other message. Otherwise, a working Mac
can take its own screenshot.}
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Sometimes a test may not run any of the additional software, together
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If the issue is due to a conflict in software and not a hardware failure,
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How old is the computer, how much RAM installed, how large a hard
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