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		<title>BootCamp/SP1 White Screen of Death: A Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Wojo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like I mentioned in my previous post, I did end up fixing my iMac after the mistake of using a Service Pack 1 installation disc of Windows XP instead of a Service Pack 2 disc.  I also managed to do this without a single trip to the Apple store, and without erasing my hard drive. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like I mentioned in my previous post, I did end up fixing my iMac after the mistake of using a Service Pack 1 installation disc of Windows XP instead of a Service Pack 2 disc.  I also managed to do this without a single trip to the Apple store, and without erasing my hard drive. Here&#8217;s how I did it.</p>
<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:</em></strong><em> This guide is a combination of two tutorials I have read regarding the subject, each somewhat different, but taking the useful parts of each to create a better solution.  <strong>I am writing this guide to see if I can help others in a similar situation, however I cannot be responsible for anything that happens as a result of it.</strong></em><em>  All I can say is that this worked for me, and you should consider your options before trying anything.</em></p>
<p><strong>The Situation:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You recently used a service pack 1 disc of Windows XP with BootCamp on Leopard.</li>
<li>When your computer restarts, your screen is white/blank; nothing happens except Apple noise when turned on.</li>
<li>You have no real options to do anything; aka booting from disc, single user mode, disc selection, etc.</li>
<li>Upon restart and holding the option key, you see your mouse, but the computer freezes shortly after.</li>
</ul>
<p>If your situation sounds like this, hopefully this might be of help to you.</p>
<p><strong>Needed Supplies:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>A FireWire (iLink) cable. (Male to Male connector; I used 6-pin version, bought at MicroCenter for about $20)</li>
<li>Another (working) Mac <strong>with Leopard</strong> and a FireWire port. (Hopefully this isn&#8217;t hard to find for you&#8230; Maybe ask some friends?  I&#8217;ve also read about people who have used an External Harddrive that connects through FireWire with Leopard installed on it)</li>
<li>A really great program called TestDisk. (Use from the working computer; You can find this program <a title="TestDisk" href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">here</a>, and don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s free.)</li>
</ol>
<p>That should be all you need. When you&#8217;re ready, <em>cautiously</em> being the steps below.</p>
<p><strong>What to Do:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Turn off both the working and non-working computers.</li>
<li>Turn the <strong>working</strong> computer on while holding the T-key.  If successful, you should see the FireWire symbol floating around the screen, indicating that you are in Target Disc Mode.</li>
<li>Now turn on the <strong>non-working</strong> computer, and hold the Option-key.  After a few seconds you should see your mouse and an icon that Idenitifies the other computer&#8217;s connection to you.  <strong>Quickly click that icon before your computer freezes!</strong> (Both the Icon <em>and</em> the arrow beneath it I&#8217;d say) (Also, don&#8217;t worry just yet if nothing shows up except the mouse when you restart holding Option-key.  The same thing happened to me, but just keep trying it over and over until you see it.)</li>
<li>Once you&#8217;ve clicked it however many times and the computer has frozen, turn off the non-working computer and restart it once more.  The computer should boot up using the hard drive of the working computer!</li>
<li>When your computer logs in, it will say that there is a &#8220;DIsk that cannot be read&#8221; and give you the options to Initialize, Ignore or Eject.  Choose Ignore. (This is your non-working harddrive FYI)</li>
<li>Navigate to Applications-&gt;Utilities-&gt;Terminal and open Terminal.</li>
<li>You should have downloaded TestDisk as mentioned in the supplies list (if not, download it now!), so you must change directories to the TestDisk directory in Terminal.<br />
<strong>Type <em>cd</em> followed by a space, and drag the downloaded TestDisk directory onto the terminal. </strong>Press Enter/Return. If that worked, you should be in the TestDisk directory.</li>
<li>Now you must begin TestDisk.<br />
<strong>Type sudo ./testdisk</strong></li>
<li>TestDisk should now be opened.  If you need to, make the terminal window bigger like it says.<br />
You&#8217;ll be given a few options&#8230;</li>
<li>Choose &#8220;Create&#8221; for the log file.</li>
<li>Select your HardDrive. (Typically /dev/disk0)</li>
<li>Choose &#8220;EFI_GPT&#8221;</li>
<li>Choose &#8220;Analyse&#8221;</li>
<li>Choose &#8220;Quick Search&#8221;</li>
<li>It&#8217;ll now be searching and will show progress and such; wait for it to complete.  When it&#8217;s done, check the listed partitions for accuracy.<br />
You should have one labeled EFI (about 200MB in size), one labeled BOOTCAMP, and one for for Mac that&#8217;s the largest.<br />
If that&#8217;s correct and you feel confident about it, press enter to continue.</li>
<li>Choose &#8220;Write&#8221; and follow any instructions.  This will write your hard drive partition map.</li>
<li>End the TestDisk program. (Quit)<br />
When I quit the program, my drives were on my Desktop. (Macintosh HD, EFI, and BOOTCAMP) If yours aren&#8217;t, I would try using TestDisk again.</li>
<li>Shut down the non-working computer, and then turn off the other one that&#8217;s connected through FireWire and remove the cable connecting them.</li>
<li>Start up the non-working machine, and it should work alright now and startup. (At least that&#8217;s how mine was)</li>
<li>When you turn on the computer and login, you&#8217;ll notice the other two disks (EFI and BOOTCAMP) are on your Desktop as well as Macintosh HD. <strong>(Optional)</strong> To fix this, I just opened up Disk Utility (Applications-&gt;Utilities), selected my hard drive, went to the Partition tab, and hit the &#8211; (Minus) button for the EFI and BOOTCAMP drives.  I then dragged my &#8220;Macintosh HD&#8221; partition&#8217;s bottom-right corner to fill the whole space.</li>
</ol>
<div>And there you have it.  If you&#8217;ve followed everything and you&#8217;ve gotten your Mac back in working condition, then congratulations!<br />
 </div>
<div><strong>Credits:</strong> Thanks to Dave (Euphoria922) from the Apple support forum for the majority of the technical steps mentioned in this article (<a title="Original post" href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6735677&amp;#6735677" target="_blank">original post here</a>) and to the various other people who wrote the posts that I did my research on.</div>
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