Hello all, I want to run windows 7 on my macbook. Take note, i said macbook, so no macbook pro or mba. This thing has a core 2 duo 2.4ghz processor and 4 gigs of ram. The graphics card is nVIDIA GEforce rt320m I believe. Why this is important will become clear in a second. I went around bootcamp's back because it messes up what currently is supposed to be my partition table. I have an NTFS partition big enoughfor windows 7, an HFS+ partition for the mac and yet another NTFS for writing files bn Windows. I did this because I am likely to need more data from my windows side. This is because I plan to run cakewalk sonar on it, together with a number of big sample libraries and software synthesizers. Now to the problem. The darn thing fights me at every opportunity. I preformatted the partition as NTFS because windows 7 doesn't automatically reformat a partition when you select it the way XP does, you have to enter some sort of custom options screen for that. Me doing this without sighted assistance for the most part cannot do this so I formatted using disk utility and the Tuxera utility. Anyway, until this point everything goes well. I select the partition, windows is being expanded, but then: When it tries to reboot into Windows, all I see is a black screen. Sometimes there's also a blinking cursor. Researching this issue, I found that this happens on iMacs due to a video card incompatibility with thbasic windows driver that is installed for NVIDIA devices. Checking that folder however there is no default NVIDIA driver, and placing said driver into the correct folder yields no results. I have tried this a few times now, even using 2 different DVD's. I haven't checked if it did at first, but now the partition where Windows has been expanded does not show up as a bootable partition in system preferences -> Startup Disk. I can however select it when holding down option during boot. That is, I can see the screen go dark, like Windows on a mac always does. The thing is that xp used to make the screen glow after that, but with 7 this does not happen.
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