Removing Boot Camp it loops asking Windows CD

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Removing Boot Camp it loops asking Windows CD

For HD space needs, on a mac mini, I removed the Win partition using boot camp Assistant.
The partition gone and the full HD space was all dedicated to OSX.
Now every time that I start up, it enters a black windows screen telling me that there is no bootable drive. It's not possible to start OSX, also holding down the option key, neither giving the OSX install dvd.
It just wants a Win XP CD for reinstalling the Win system; but there's no more partition where to do it, because deleted.
Please any idea on how to exit from this looping situation ?
Thanks, Alberto

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 19, 2010 8:56 PM

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Daniel90

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Sep 23, 2010 7:08 PM in response to AlbFran99

Well, I don't know if this thing is gonna work or not, but when u booting/start up ur mac, try to hold down the option key... and I hope you'll get the option to choose the hard drive... choose the macintosh hd drive... go to system preferences if u'r able to boot in mac os x. Go to start up disk and choose mac os x as the start up disk. If that still fails, back up all the files that u got. Reinstall the OS would be nice or maybe u can use disk utility... I guess it occur because propably u don't/forgot to decide which startup disk for ur mac... when using bootcamp, usually use the bootcamp utility to decide to restart in mac os x... then u'll get the correct start up disk. hope that helps... 🙂

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