IMac running dual boot with a flipped screen on the windows side

We have a bunch of computers at a Middle School running dual boot and on the windows side the kids figured out how to flip the screens but we can't get them back. Tried cntrl alt and the arrows and also shift alt and arrows and nothing works.
Any ideas???

See if this works for you.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1997372&tstart=0
Let me know if it works,
Kevin

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I have a new iMac, running Mountain Lion, with CS6. I have the tablet with the keyboard. I'm finding that in CS6 I have to type command-C and command-V repeatedly to copy or paste anything. It is not the keyboard; I've switched that out. Is it some kind of tablet interference?

Yes, EEK!
Have you run Microsoft Update and installed the latest 14.2.4 Office update yet?
Humor me. When you perform copy, do you then establish keyboard focus by clicking the mouse pointer on the destination screen for the paste action -- before keying the paste?
Have you installed any third-party keystroke mapping software that may be getting between the operating system and these two applications?
Under System Preferences > Accessibility > Keyboard, have you enabled Sticky, Slow, or EEK! Keys?
In System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard & Text Input, doe the check marks look like the following:

I have updated my Macbook pro to mavericks since yesturday it has been running none stop with a gray screen and the apple logo in the medle

I have updated my Macbook pro to mavericks since yesturday it has been running none stop with a gray screen and the apple logo in the midle. Does anyone has incounedt that same of problem? Please help. Thank you in advance.

The startup disk may need repairing ...
Startup your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys.
From there you should be able to access the built in utilities to repair the disk and restore OS X using OS X Recovery

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Not quite sure where this should be posted, so I figured I'd post here. I came upon a rather large hard drive and I was thinking about dual booting with OS X. I meet the system requirements, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to integrate. I did some searching on the forums here, and on google, but I wasn't able to find much. I guess my main questions are:
1) Can GRUB load OS X from an external USB hard drive?
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3) Is there any common pitfalls I should be aware of before starting this?
Any help I can be given would be greatly appreciated!
David

1: Probably. OSX refusing to boot from the drive without grub even being considered is more likely than grub not doing its job. It wouldn't boot on my sata, for instance, but doing it from an internal ide worked fine [including Grub2], and I've seen examples of it working on legacy grub.
2: Yes. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. … opic=34227
3: Not really, assuming you're using a real mac instead of a "hackintosh", but that doesn't seem to be so from your post [I would expect someone to say it the other way around, "I want want to dual boot -Arch-", if theyre using a mac machine]. I'm not sure what kinds of things about this topic would be shaky ground on the forums, so I'll try to keep from saying anything troublesome.. I will remove it if necessary, but I don't expect that to be the case. If you're using a "hackintosh", expect hardware problems (it can be a serious hassle and hack-job installing and getting everything to work) and highly probable legal issues (even if you own OSX). On a side note, I personally think OSX is the most boring, user-limiting OS in existence.. However, on the positive side, it pretty much does what it says it does if you're using the real deal, and does it well.
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Running Dual boot windows 8 and win 7 pro with xp mode installed!! I love it!!

It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
Step 1: using diskmgmt.msc you have to shring the C partition. I shrunk it so I had 80GB remaining as unallocated space.
Step 2: You have to enter the machine Bios adn set the BIOS to Both and UEFI as first
Step 3: Connect your usb dvd
Step 4: Put your win 7 pro dvd in the usb dvd drive
Step 5: Reboot your machine and when it starts press F12 to get the boot menu and select the usb dvd drive then press enter
The machine restarts
Message on screen says press a key to boot from cd/dvd
Press space and it boots up the win 7 pro DVD
After files copy and load the setup screen asks to accept the agreement and where to install win 7
BE SURE TO SELECT THE 80GB location
Then follow thru the win 7 prompts to load it.
When the machine restarts you will see a dual boot screen with Windows 7 on top as first selection and Windows 8 below it as 2nd selection.
Make sure to hit enter with windows 7 selected
The win 7 installation completes.
You will see many items with drivers not installed dont fret.
You can load most of the drivers by highlighting the device in control panel/device manager and pick update driver then select BROWSE for DRIVER and be sure to put in drive D:\ which is now the windows 8 drive and hit search.
Many of the windows 8 drivers installed with no issue.
The Realtek driver was an exception .. goto to the lenovo site and pick the x100e tablet and download the LAN driver from there about (4MB). Copy it to flash drive and install it in win 7 from the .exe file. The driver for LAN will install sucessfully. The version of the driver is 7.46 something the 7.11 versions do not workl.
I have only 3 drivers that I could not find - 2 list as unknown and are related to ACPI or power management and 1 lists as USB controller but all the USB stuff works without it.
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Just to let you know an easy way to shutdown is go to the desktop and press ALT + FN + F4 and a shutdown menu comes up on the desktop.
Once win 7 pro is installed you can download the XP mode free from Microsoft and install it.
This is of course AFTER you have ACTIVATED WINDOWS 7 ONLINE with YOUR ACTIVATION KEY(you supply).
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!

It's been many, many years since I don't do dual boot anymore. Don't find the reason to do it, either. Different kinds of virtualization should be enough. Anyway...
dfw1417 wrote:
It took over 2 days to figure out how to adjust the bios to get my win 7 pro DVD to boot and install dual boot on this GREAT MACHINE!!
ENJOY! This is the BEST machine I ever had!
WHICH machine?
Cheers.
If I helped you, please give me some kudos! ^^

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It would help us to help you if we could have some more technical info about your iMac.
If you so choose, Please download, install and run Etrecheck.
Etrecheck was developed as a simple Mac diagnostic reporting tool by a regular Apple Support forum user and technical support contributor named Etresoft.
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It is not malware and can be safely downloaded and installed onto your Mac.
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ivokosir wrote:It may be that you didn't install os-prober before running grub-mkconfig. This happened to me once, I hope I'm not too late to warn you.
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Skip the boot creation tools and just boot the thing in UEFI mode.
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[edit] I don't believe the partition needs to be set active, but haven't tested that.
Set BIOS boot mode to UEFI. Even secure boot mode should work withe a new enough Ubuntu - but isn't necessary.
Give that a try. If it still barfs at the same place, mess around with the start-up graphics options.
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And would the stock 512mb video card be fine.
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GENERIC UPGRADE ADVICE
Apologies in advance to those for whom this info is redundant.
Some general guidelines for operation of heavy graphics applications (specifically Aperture):
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
if you mean dual-boot btw OSX and some kind of Linux - i have less experience there, but i think its possible. perhaps the easiest way is to use Parallels Workstation (but that's not really dual booting in fact - it's virtualization)...
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