EFI problem related to Boot Camp
Hi I'm new to the forums,
I'm having problems booting into my windows partition on my MacBook. Everything was fine until I had a recent power failure while using Windows 7 for office work. My Macbook just turned off with no warning. Upon turning on the macbook I get the "No Bootable Device" black screen.
I figured the Windows partition corrupted itself after the power failure. I proceed to delete the windows partition via Boot Camp Assistant in OSX, divide the hard drive again, and go ahead with reinstalling Windows 7. But here's the problem I can't seem to figure out. When formatting the BOOTCAMP partition in the Windows Installer to NTFS, I run into this error:
http://i49.tinypic.com/1043i53.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/167mux4.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/1zxulo1.jpg
Probably the entire hard disk corrupted after the power failure? Okay, so I freshly reinstall Snow Leopard deleting all the contents on the HD. I even performed a complete format using the Zero Out method in Disk Utility. When the OSX install completed I divided the partition again with Boot Camp Assistant and ran the windows installer only to run into the same error like pictured above. Tried this method again but also ressetted NVRAM/PRAM and SMC. Still no luck. 😟
So I'm thinking some part of the HD isn't working. I remove the HD from the macbook and replace it with the original 80GB hard drive that came with it. This time, instead of installing OSX, I formatted the hard drive in FAT32 with Disk Utility, and proceeded to install Windows 7 without OSX. I STILL get the same error though. Can't ever get passed this error. Arghh. I guess its not an HD problem so I replace my 250gb HD back in.
Did some research on google and decided to run rEFIT for its custom boot screen. For the heck of it I decided to run the Windows Partition that was listed on boot screen. Here is where I run into this error:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2mq6og5.jpg
It says: "The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume."
Could this be an EFI problem? Is something corrupted in the boot rom that is restricting me from booting into the windows partition? I already performed a reset for the NVRAM/PRAM and SMC.
I've tried to reflash the EFI again but OSX won't let me. It says: "This computer does not need this update"
Anybody have any suggestion to what I should do? I'm way out of warranty and have no Apple Care. There are no Apple Store within a 100 miles.
I'm having problems booting into my windows partition on my MacBook. Everything was fine until I had a recent power failure while using Windows 7 for office work. My Macbook just turned off with no warning. Upon turning on the macbook I get the "No Bootable Device" black screen.
I figured the Windows partition corrupted itself after the power failure. I proceed to delete the windows partition via Boot Camp Assistant in OSX, divide the hard drive again, and go ahead with reinstalling Windows 7. But here's the problem I can't seem to figure out. When formatting the BOOTCAMP partition in the Windows Installer to NTFS, I run into this error:
http://i49.tinypic.com/1043i53.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/167mux4.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/1zxulo1.jpg
Probably the entire hard disk corrupted after the power failure? Okay, so I freshly reinstall Snow Leopard deleting all the contents on the HD. I even performed a complete format using the Zero Out method in Disk Utility. When the OSX install completed I divided the partition again with Boot Camp Assistant and ran the windows installer only to run into the same error like pictured above. Tried this method again but also ressetted NVRAM/PRAM and SMC. Still no luck. 😟
So I'm thinking some part of the HD isn't working. I remove the HD from the macbook and replace it with the original 80GB hard drive that came with it. This time, instead of installing OSX, I formatted the hard drive in FAT32 with Disk Utility, and proceeded to install Windows 7 without OSX. I STILL get the same error though. Can't ever get passed this error. Arghh. I guess its not an HD problem so I replace my 250gb HD back in.
Did some research on google and decided to run rEFIT for its custom boot screen. For the heck of it I decided to run the Windows Partition that was listed on boot screen. Here is where I run into this error:
http://i49.tinypic.com/2mq6og5.jpg
It says: "The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume."
Could this be an EFI problem? Is something corrupted in the boot rom that is restricting me from booting into the windows partition? I already performed a reset for the NVRAM/PRAM and SMC.
I've tried to reflash the EFI again but OSX won't let me. It says: "This computer does not need this update"
Anybody have any suggestion to what I should do? I'm way out of warranty and have no Apple Care. There are no Apple Store within a 100 miles.
Macbook 2,1 2GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6)
