Hi.
I was trying to get a Bootcamped Win7 going on my machine and all I'm getting is the black screen blinking cursor problem when I boot from the install disk. It goes immediately to the black screen without any indication that the disk is being read at all.
Yes, I searched this forum and others and I found that there are many speculations as to cause and many solutions, seemingly every solution has at least one person that it worked for. I've tried several, such as burning a new disk, zapping PRAM, re-partitioning, booting off of a different install disk, and trying to boot off of two different vista disks. I also tried two different USB DVD drives (no internal due to RAID config). Additionally I tried both selecting boot drive by OPTION and in the Startup Disk control panel. None of this worked.
I had used a similar configuration in terms of disk for some time on my old 3/09 15" and never had a problem doing an install on it once I figured out what needed to go where. That is here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/676856/
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John
I was trying to get a Bootcamped Win7 going on my machine and all I'm getting is the black screen blinking cursor problem when I boot from the install disk. It goes immediately to the black screen without any indication that the disk is being read at all.
Yes, I searched this forum and others and I found that there are many speculations as to cause and many solutions, seemingly every solution has at least one person that it worked for. I've tried several, such as burning a new disk, zapping PRAM, re-partitioning, booting off of a different install disk, and trying to boot off of two different vista disks. I also tried two different USB DVD drives (no internal due to RAID config). Additionally I tried both selecting boot drive by OPTION and in the Startup Disk control panel. None of this worked.
I had used a similar configuration in terms of disk for some time on my old 3/09 15" and never had a problem doing an install on it once I figured out what needed to go where. That is here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/676856/
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John
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