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black screen with blinking cursor when installing win 7/vista x64 osx 10.6

i am using bootcamp 3 to install windows 7/vista x64 on osx 10.6.6.when i select install mac reboots and then all i get is a black screen with white cursor.

i have created a 20gb partition with disk utility in fat32 and i had installed windows successfully when i was on osx 10.5.i tried erasing and creating new partition but same problem.

any help will be appreciated

macbook 13" 2.1 intel, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 6, 2011 11:40 PM

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Feb 7, 2011 4:27 PM in response to shady24

...when i select install mac reboots and then all i get is a black screen with white cursor.


After creating the Boot Camp partition, choose to install the OS later. Then shut down the Mac. Start up the Mac while holding down the Option key. Then double-click on the Windows installer disk. I've found a few Windows disks that Boot Camp Assistant won't reboot correctly. (Basically all that Boot Camp Assistant does is to set the startup disk to be the Windows installer, then reboot the Mac.)

...i am considering re-installing leopard and dumping snow leopard,such a waste of $$


BTW, this has nothing to do with Boot Camp.

Feb 7, 2011 11:50 PM in response to Asatoran

Asatoran wrote:
I've found a few Windows disks that Boot Camp Assistant won't reboot correctly.


BTW, this has nothing to do with Boot Camp.


guess you are confused, anyhow i fixed it , here is how:

Step 1. Download iMac Late_2009_2010 Win7_Drivers from
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl995

Step 2. Follow the steps given here : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173

This is bootcamp issue because i was able to install win 7 x 64 without these steps on osx 10.5 it seems apple decided to remove drivers for late 2008 macbook to compress the code n stuff.If you are running old machine apple doesnt care much ......it shows

Jul 19, 2011 4:38 AM in response to shady24

This solved it for me!


From another forum:


"1. Put the Windows 7 installation disc in the disc drive, and then start your computer.

2. Hold down Option key till all available disks are displayed and select DVD. Press a key when you are prompted.

3. Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then 4. click Next.

5. Click Repair your computer.

6. Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.

7.In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.


Type (these commands are safe)

Code: Bootrec.exe /FixMbr

Code: Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

Code: Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

*Press ENTER after each command.*

*Restart your computer.* "

black screen with blinking cursor when installing win 7/vista x64 osx 10.6

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