Hi All. I was hoping to get some advice. I am new to Mac computing and have got myself a Mac Mini which I bought second hand. When I got it, it had a fresh install of OSX (Snow Leopard I believe) on it. It has an SSD as the main drive (no optical drive) and a 500GB hard disk for storage.
Anyway I wanted to use Boot Camp to dual boot Windows 7 on it. Following a guide I created a bootable USB version of Windows 7 and used boot camp to partition the SSD into two. Unfortunately it took forever (hours) to get half way through the partition and while my head was turned it rebooted itself. So I don’t really know if it finished or crashed? It then tried to install Windows upon restart. I went ahead and arrived at the screen asking me which drive I wanted to install it on. As per the guide I was using I tried to install it on the one which had been labelled as Boot Camp. The installer then said I needed to format the drive, so I did. Then the installer says in little red text Windows cannot be installed on this drive so I was stuck. Now OSX will not load without me holding down the alt/option key at boot and choosing the system drive. Once in OSX it shows the system drive split into two partitions.
So now I don’t know what to do to get to where I want to be. I was tempted to start completely from fresh and wipe the HD but I don’t have the original OSX media so how would I get that back on? Or can I rejoin the two partitions and start again?
What would those in the know do? Thanks for the help. I am sure it is simple but I do not know my way round OSX at all.
Anyway I wanted to use Boot Camp to dual boot Windows 7 on it. Following a guide I created a bootable USB version of Windows 7 and used boot camp to partition the SSD into two. Unfortunately it took forever (hours) to get half way through the partition and while my head was turned it rebooted itself. So I don’t really know if it finished or crashed? It then tried to install Windows upon restart. I went ahead and arrived at the screen asking me which drive I wanted to install it on. As per the guide I was using I tried to install it on the one which had been labelled as Boot Camp. The installer then said I needed to format the drive, so I did. Then the installer says in little red text Windows cannot be installed on this drive so I was stuck. Now OSX will not load without me holding down the alt/option key at boot and choosing the system drive. Once in OSX it shows the system drive split into two partitions.
So now I don’t know what to do to get to where I want to be. I was tempted to start completely from fresh and wipe the HD but I don’t have the original OSX media so how would I get that back on? Or can I rejoin the two partitions and start again?
What would those in the know do? Thanks for the help. I am sure it is simple but I do not know my way round OSX at all.
