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by rml20052001

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Alright, so I have this Macbook. It came with Tiger, I later installed Ubuntu. Then when Leopard came out I installed it. In a massive Boot Camp mistake, I installed a cracked version of Windows XP, reformatting my drive and losing all sign of Leopard. All attempts to boot Leopard and such were massive failures. Then, my brother tried wiping my disk to see if there was some possible way in hell to install Leopard after that.

Anyway, the wipe stopped halfway and now I can't run WinXP or boot the Leopard disc (unless there are some keys to push to load it up).

Does anyone know what I should do with my laptop? Do I need to take it to a specialist to reformat it? Or is there some way to run Leopard and reformat my disk?

In urgent need of help.

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by oh smeg

Unless you Wipe the HDD completely and start from scratch.

What you did wrong was to install a Pirate Copy of Windows as this when you allow the Format to Occur rewrites all the HDD information and deletes the existing OS/s that you had installed. You need to Install any OS to a [b]Empty Partition on the HDD not just to the Drive.[/b]

Now as a possible solution I would suggest using a wiping utility like Boot & Nuke available for free from here

http://tinyurl.com/4rfur

You will need to alter the Boot Order so you need to enter BIOS which will be in your Owners Manual telling you how to do this. It may also help to edit your original post to Mac NB OS so that the Mac Brigade here can give you the correct information.

Col

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