Recover osx documents thru Boot Camp?? HELP PLEASE

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Recover osx documents thru Boot Camp?? HELP PLEASE

I´ve just installed windows 7 with bootcamp. Now i cant boot osx anymore. When i start my mac, the apple logo shows up, then a loadingbar underneath. When the loadingbar is full, the mac turns off. What to do? And of course i didnt remember to backup my mac -.-´

I noticed that i can enter the osx partition thru ¨my computer¨ in boot camp, but there is no documents there of course, just program files. So anyone know if there is anyway i can recover any of my osx documents? Got some garageband and iMovie projects and some pictures i would like to save...

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010)

Posted on Sep 13, 2013 2:49 PM

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Rudegar

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Sep 14, 2013 4:53 AM in response to niklasmg

I would try to reset the pram

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

your user docs would be under

/Users/<YOUR USER NAME>/

what sub dirs under your user dir depend on the app the document is for

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niklasmg Author

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Sep 14, 2013 5:20 AM in response to Rudegar

Thanks! Im going to try resetting the pram now. And thank god for the lower part of your answer, made my day!

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bobwild

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Sep 14, 2013 5:34 AM in response to niklasmg

Did you hold the Option key down during the power-up. This will display the bootable startup disks which you can select. Then you can selct your Windows or OSX.

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niklasmg Author

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Sep 14, 2013 6:38 AM in response to bobwild

Yes sure, thats not the problem. It automatically boots in osx, if i want to boot windows, then i hold down the option key. And it doesnt matter if i try to booth osx just by powering up the mac, or by holding down the option key and choosing osx, the same thing happens.. But im going to try the pram thingy, and see if that works.

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The hatter

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Sep 14, 2013 8:27 AM in response to niklasmg

Try BootChamp - a nice OS X utility

Option key does not alway work with BT wireless keyboards or if not plugged directly to some Macs.

rEFIt use to be popular but may not be supported on newer Mac - not sure what happened.

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