recovery

Do you still need help

you need to put in recovery mode

press option and r .... you will hold these two keys for what seems like an hour. when the screen starts to turn green and a start up menu appear you can then let go. from this point in top left corner of the screen click reinstall ox

but have you tried recovery mode?

i get you changed it but you still need a start up menu

also in recovery mode it will give option to set up everything and then you will be able to reinstall operating system...

trust me... option + r hold at same time forever until you see screen color change and a rectangle start menu appears in the middle... select hd and select replace old hard drive with new hard drive ___ after that go to left top corner (where the apple logo would usually be) and click on it. Scroll to reinstall OS. Do NOT try and install through rectangle menu in the middle because it will not work.

ohh okay did not realize that you had installed windows 7..

when i say forever i mean 7 minutes, no joke. the original OS option will come up. white screen - blue - green- then magic

opened CMD.EXE with admin rights and ran the following command in the “Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple” directory:

msiexec /i BootCamp64.msi

Mac Pro + OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) + Windows 7 X64 = Love

JOHN ROBBINS

2 SEP , 2009

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you have already seen my infatuation
with
using
Apple
hardware. With a freshly pressed copy of Apple’s latest, OS X 10.6 now in my hot little hands, it was time to install both the Leopard and Windows 7 RTM on my main desktop Mac Pro. After playing around with OS X 10.6 and seeing that if certainly felt faster on the same hardware than 10.5, I started Boot Camp and told it which drive I wanted to use for Windows and away I went.

After booting off the Windows 7 x64 DVD, I had my first scary moment. While OS X reported the drives in the machine in proper bay order, Windows 7 did not. Fortunately for me, I had written down the model numbers and disk spaces beforehand so I was able to properly figure out which drive I had marked for Windows. The Windows 7 install went swimmingly and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Windows 7 only reported the ACPI device as missing in the Device Manager. Additionally, I noticed that the sound card wasn’t listed either.

Part of my concern about the drivers was that my machine, a first generation Mac Pro (model MacPro 1,1), does not have x64 support from Apple. Under Vista, I’d managed to get everything I needed working, but didn’t have all the seamlessness of later Macs. I popped in the OS X 10.6 DVD, which contains the Windows drivers, and figured it was worth a shot to give Setup.exe a run. Sadly, the results were not happy:

Before I dove into WinDBG and started hacking things in memory for the setup process, I thought I’d poke around the 10.6 “Boot Camp” directory to see if anything jumped out. I noticed as I started looking that the DVD access was quite slow so I copied the “Boot Camp” directory to my hard disk. My guess is that since the 10.6 DVD is a mixed OS X and Windows DVD, it just takes a lot more to access it.

Looking in the “Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple” directory, I noticed BootCamp64.MSI along with an x64 directory. That file was only 3 MB so it couldn’t be the main installer. Feeling frisky, I thought I’d give it a shot to see what would happen. I opened CMD.EXE with admin rights and ran the following command in the “Boot Camp\Drivers\Apple” directory:

msiexec /i BootCamp64.msi

That started a massive flurry of installations and it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that that was all it takes to get all the Apple drivers onto an unsupported system. Thanks for not making it hard, Apple! After a reboot, I was thrilled to see that everything was working on the machine including the read only HFS driver that is now part of Boot Camp 3.0.

So OS X 10.6 is running great, Windows 7 is running great, and John is in love with Apple hardware all over again.

you will have to have the original OS disk then... once you have that then you show be fine. Just check your drives directory

reset instructions are the ones I gave you... apple store

if it white screens, then you can reset/recover

What is the EXACT model / year MBP that you have and the current OSX?

Ciao.