Mac will only restart in Windows via Bootcamp.......Help!!

Ok....My Mac has XP on BC 2.1. When I click the bottom right hand corner in Windows to restart in Mac it only restarts in Windows. Then When I'm in Mac and there is a software update, still, it only restarts in Mac OS. Last, when I go to system preferences, and Startup Disk, it still only will restarts in Windows. WHAT!?! It will however let me select Mac when I hold Option Key at boot then it Will boot into Mac. Any ideas why?

I would love to edit this post but I can't. I meant to say that it even restarts after an Apple Software Update in Windows. Basically anytime it restarts (even if I tell it not to) it is in Windows. The only exception is for when I hold option key, then I can get it into Mac. And my OS is 10.5.6 not 10.4.6.

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That's the EFI password. If you don't know the password, the only thing you can do to turn it off is to take the Mac to an Apple Store.
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Hello,
I purchased my new Macbook Pro 13" in January of this year, and my hardrive recently completely crashed. I was lucky enough to have Apple pay for a new hd, but I really want to know what caused it. The only thing I can think of that makes any sort of sense is that installing Windows via bootcamp screwed up the hardrive somehow and caused it to fail from getting worked too much from always restarting into Windows / having too much of my hd dedicated to Windows (150 gb of my 750gb SATA hd). I dont know if any of this makes sense, or if I just got really unlucky and got a bad hd from the factory. I have never physically damaged my macbook (like dropping it or whatever) and have never stored it in extremely hot or cold temperatures. The copy of Windows I installed was legit and everything....so I am scared to reinstall windows in fear that my hd will fail again
So my question is this...... is there any way that the bootcamp partition could have cause my hd to fail? Is it safe to go ahead and install windows again?
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I have never heard of bootcamp causing hard drive failure. I think it is more likely that you were unlucky and ended up with a bad drive. Something like 1 in 100,000 fail, that 1 has to land on someone. If you are worried about bootcamping again I would recommend Parallels or VMWare Fusion. They are both excellent virtualization applications and offer a soft cap on the windows partition size because it is a file kept inside of OSX instead of a physical partition. I have been running Parallels for 6 months with no problems.
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daisyvflower wrote:
Thanks for the email.
I do think converting will end up being complicating. Do you know what Office for Mac is like, is it similar to MS Access? If so, I could do the course using MS Access and then buy Office for Mac and teach myself how to create databases using office.
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Good Day,
yesterday i recieved my brand new 21" iMac.
I wanted to install Windows via Bootcamp. I partitioned the Harddrive, started the installation and when Windows setup came to the point where it has to reboot (after copying the necessary files to the harddrive during the part of the setup process with the blue screen), it said something like "disc error, press any key to boot from CD. Nothing happend and the only way to start the computer was while holding down the ALT key and selecting the Macintosh disc.
I deleted the bootcamp partition, but still my computer wants to boot windows giving me the "disc error" message. Everytime i have to start the computer holding the ALT key to boot into OSX (it only shows me the Macintosh drive, no more windows drive to select).
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Thanks!
Message was edited by: daniel.bs

It is a common error, which i've faced too.
Did you formatted the windows partition when into xp/vista/7 installation?
Boot Camp assistant only partition the hard drive, but you will have to format the windows partition yourself before installing, or you'll get that error when trying to boot/reboot in windows after installation.
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My iMac will only restart or shutdown from the power button, it also will not logoff users. It starts ok, but only after a hard reboot?? I have repaired permisions and no change. I have a clone I can restore from but any ideas whats up here?
The only things that I know I have altered are deleting files saved during migration from Panther (months ago)and running Unbuntu Live CD.
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I've just updated OS to 10.10.1 and Finder keeps trying to open and then closes every 2 seconds with the message Finder is not Available. If Safari is opened full window it immediately closes and will only work with window smaller than maximum.

I've just updated OS to 10.10.1 and Finder keeps trying to open and then closes every 2 seconds with the message Finder is not Available. If Safari is opened with the window full screen it immediately closes and will only work with window smaller than maximum. Driving me mad! Any help please!!

Hi Linc
Thank you for your response.
I'm a bit of an amateur so I hope below is the information you've asked for:
Step 1
23/11/2014 09:19:14.007 ReportCrash[294]: Saved crash report for Finder[4349] version 10.10.1 (10.10.1) to /Users/AAAA/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-11-23-091914_BBBB-MacBoo k-Pro-2.crash
23/11/2014 09:19:14.008 ReportCrash[294]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/AAAA/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-11-23-091840_BBBB -MacBook-Pro-2.crash
23/11/2014 09:19:14.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x103809000): p=4357[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
23/11/2014 09:19:14.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 4357[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x103809000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
23/11/2014 09:19:14.454 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder[4357]) Binary is improperly signed.
23/11/2014 09:19:14.454 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.
23/11/2014 09:19:15.584 Finder[4359]: assertion failed: 14B25: libxpc.dylib + 97940 [9437C02E-A07B-38C8-91CB-299FAA63083D]: 0x89
23/11/2014 09:19:15.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10bfbf000): p=4359[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
23/11/2014 09:19:15.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 4359[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10bfbf000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
Step 2
Process:               Finder [4626]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:            com.apple.finder
Build Info: Finder_FE-932001003000000~1
Responsible:           Finder [4626]
PlugIn Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
PlugIn Identifier:       com.apple.finder
-0 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10c9a5000): p=4626[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-0 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4626[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10c9a5000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-2 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10c5b3000): p=4624[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-2 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4624[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10c5b3000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-3 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10f4bd000): p=4622[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-3 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4622[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10f4bd000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-5 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x105ecf000): p=4620[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-5 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4620[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x105ecf000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-7 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1012cd000): p=4617[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-7 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4617[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1012cd000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
--> __TEXT 000000010c966000-000000010ce55000 [ 5052K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
    __DATA 000000010ce55000-000000010cf53000 [ 1016K] rw-/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
0   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c9a521f 0x10c966000 + 258591
10 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c9977b5 0x10c966000 + 202677
11 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c988154 0x10c966000 + 139604
12 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987e15 0x10c966000 + 138773
13 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987d35 0x10c966000 + 138549
14 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987cfd 0x10c966000 + 138493
28 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c96b960 0x10c966000 + 22880
1   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a69d 0x10c966000 + 149149
2   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98aba7 0x10c966000 + 150439
3   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c9795d2 0x10c966000 + 79314
4   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98aa0b 0x10c966000 + 150027
5   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a952 0x10c966000 + 149842
6   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a78a 0x10c966000 + 149386
7   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c979496 0x10c966000 + 78998
8   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a548 0x10c966000 + 148808
9   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a410 0x10c966000 + 148496
10 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c983df6 0x10c966000 + 122358
       0x10c966000 -        0x10ce54ffb com.apple.finder (10.10.1 - 10.10.1) <33C3024A-4A16-3485-B2B1-89FA33B9558A> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Many thanks
David

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