Wrong.

Upon restarting the computer, it was rendered nearly useless. The only thing that I saw was a blank white screen along with the familiar sound of the Apple start-up noise. I pretty much panicked.  It wouldn’t load from CD, it wouldn’t recognize anything (including any operating system whether it be Windows or Mac) and to make it even worse, there seemed to be very little help available online to help fix my problem.  So there sat my Mac; a very pretty paperweight.

For the next day and a half I searched the Internet vigorously for some kind of solution.  I did manage to find two useful articles.  I took the two articles and sort of combined them to fix my Mac.

From what I can tell now, it is a problem with BootCamp and SP1 where it deletes or corrupts the partition map.  Once I can put everything together, I’ll post an in-depth guide to fixing your Mac if it is experiencing a problem like I’ve had.

Oh, and for the record, I still and always have loved Macs, and this doesn’t change that.  If anything it brings me closer to my machine.