Vista disc stuck in Mac Pro

dannyraul · 4 Mar 2008 at 15:43

Been trying to Boot Camp with Vista Business x64 onto a new second disc without any luck - says windows is unable to find a volume that meets its criteria - and now on restart the mac is stuck in a cycle of booting from the DVD. I have tried holding 'd', option key, option+cmd+o+f, and mouse button but it still keeps booting from the DVD. I was using an Enterprise 32bit DVD earlier and I could eject that by holding the mouse button down on startup :confused:

Please help!

iSam · 4 Mar 2008 at 15:47

Can you get into OS X? Use that to remove the disc?

bledd · 4 Mar 2008 at 15:56

do they have those poke holes on macs that most/all cd drives have

click this picture

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/cdcover.jpg

if you get a paperclip and straighten it out, then push it hard & firmly into that hole, it'll eject the drive (can do it when machine is off or on)

dannyraul · 4 Mar 2008 at 16:26

No i couldn't get into OSX as it was stuck in a cycle of booting from the DVD drive on startup, however I have managed to get the damn disc out by holding down the mouse button - don't know why it didn't work in the first place!

Unfortuently Mac Pro DVD drives don't have a manual eject's on them so I couldn't do the paper clip trick.

Now my only problem is getting it to recognise my second hard drive so that I can install Vista! I have followed the Boot Camp Setup PDF but still no joy, any one have any ideas?

mortals · 4 Mar 2008 at 16:44

edit: bah I must type slow

lol