Mac boots in windows automatically

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Mac boots in windows automatically

Hello there,

I have boot camp successfully installed and partitioned. Windows works fine, however I cannot get my mac to restart into Mac OS. I automatically starts in windows? The only way I can get it to go to Mac is by holding Option key and selecting it. I'd like it to be the opposite and boot into Mac OS automatically as I will not be using Windows too often.

Thanks,
Lorne

MacBook (Black), 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 27, 2010 6:34 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 27, 2010 8:25 PM in response to Lorne17

In either Windows or OSX, you can go into the Boot Camp Control Panel and under the Start Up Disk tab, select the drive you wish to default to. For example, my MAC hard drive is called Macintosh HD and hit apply. The next time you reboot your system, it should start OSX by default.

Regards.

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Answer 2

The hatter

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Feb 28, 2010 5:01 AM in response to Lorne17

First you need to install your OS X DVD while in Windows, run Apple setup.exe to add Apple drivers and services, which includes Boot Camp control panel (Startup Disk setting for default).

X = Mac OS also during system boot process rather than Option key.

Windows had to be able to continue the install and restart back into Windows.

System Preferences: Startup Disk control panel in Mac OS (there is no Boot Camp c.p.) will change the default boot OS.

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Answer 3

Lorne17 Author

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Feb 28, 2010 7:12 AM in response to Lorne17

Great thanks for the help all.

Lorne

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