CoH for MAC? or other way round?

Hi guys and gals,
First off, sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
i was looking through my MacBook the other day bored out of my skull wishing i bought a normal laptop that i could play CoX on when i stumbled across a feature called 'Boot Camp'

This can partition the hard drive in to two separate operating systems (i think... i'm not a computer genius) and you can choose which you want to use when you boot up your notebook.

So i tried it, but, sadly i had something wrong and got a message which basically meant i needed to try and get my Mac back to how it was on 'Day1' where it had only Mac software installed onto it.

Okay, easy enough, i thought.... i have been looking for something like a 'system restore' button but annoyingly i don't think there is one. If anyone uses a Mac out there can you please tell me how to get it back to 'Day 1' so i may partition the Hard Drive and finally play CoX on my Mac

Many Thanks, Peace Out
Nuke. x

There were a few recent exchanges (and further links) here.

Ahh cheers bud, that gave some nice tips and pointers but i still don't know how to get my Hard Drive back to the way it was when i first purchased it. Without doing that i have no chance :P.

Someone on the game suggested re-inserting the install disk for OS-X and that i should be given an option to erase all and re-install. Unfortunately, i don't have this disk anymore, so i need to find a new method, which doesn't involve me trying to buy a new CD.
Peace Out.

Yellow Dog linux and Wine?

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

I am an IT engineer and theres only 2 ways you can restore to factory default.

1st is to do an archive and install as suggested - best method by far. 2ns - ff you have OSX Leopard 10.5 (you can find this out via the Apple Menu>About this Mac) and have setup backups using Time Machine you can restore to a much earlier time using that.

However, if OSX itself works fine then the best method would be to use the BootCamp utility and use that to restore ya partition back to one single HFS+ partition. Once thats done can then repartition and reinstall Windows.

Also if the numtpies of Apple haven't suggested it - you can reset your Power Management Unit (PMU). To do this power off the system, remove the PSU, then remove the battery. Turn the laptop back over with both not attached and hold the power button for 5 secs. Once done reconnect battery and PSU and turn on. Let it boot into OSX after doing this. I'd recommend trying this even if ya ain't before as it can solve many niggles with Mac systems for OSX and Windows.

Its also worth noting that if you have OSX Tiger the versions of BootCamp are only betas as the full release is a Leopard exclusive.

If the above is not possible then rather than fork out for MacBook disks, buy a copy of OSX Leopard and gain full functionality and features. It'll run even on the oldest MacBook too.

For reference I am running on a 1st gen MacBook Pro with Leopard and have had it BootCamped since I orignally had Tiger and have never had any problems. Aside from Windows XP being pants - but thank god I don't have Vista lol

Hope some of that helps in some way.

Aah top man! thats a great help. Thanks alot ill start on it right away. Youve made things a hell of a lot clearer now.. i spent ages looking on the internet for something like this thanks again, appreciate it heavily
Peace Out
Nuke. x

*edit* wahey its all working! now all i need to do is find my Windows XP disk... damnit where did i put it *edit*

Glad it all helped mate

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thank god I don't have Vista lol


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Maybe Windows Mojave is the answer for you? And anyone else who has issues with Vista?

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thank god I don't have Vista lol


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Maybe Windows Mojave is the answer for you? And anyone else who has issues with Vista?

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Yeeeessss, because (estimated - they aren't clear) - 30 minutes or so having an OS demonstrated to them a on specifically chosen laptop is fully representative of everything they'll ever face.

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It's about human perception. Most people that bash Vista do so because they only heard negativ things about it

As with everything, it's down to driver quality really. [censored] poor drivers made the Vista release fuzzy. The OS in itself is great.

Well I work in IT and Vista makes me wanna cry daily - its one of the 4 horrors of IT:

Vista;
Wireless Networking;
People using their laptops like an ashtray, dropping it, then lying about it; and
A shortage of caffeine.

Caffine gives me a head ache, also, email.

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Well I work in IT and Vista makes me wanna cry daily - its one of the 4 horrors of IT:

Vista;
Wireless Networking;
People using their laptops like an ashtray, dropping it, then lying about it; and
A shortage of caffeine.

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Yeah? Well, so do I.

Vista is great to use, and works perfectly. It ran on my 3 year of P4 perfectly, with no problems EVER (until the PC itself expired). It runs on my new kit perfectly too. It runs on my new laptop perfectly as well.

And your list misses out the top horror of IT.

Users.

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It's about human perception. Most people that bash Vista do so because they only heard negativ things about it

As with everything, it's down to driver quality really. [censored] poor drivers made the Vista release fuzzy. The OS in itself is great.

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i had it on my labtop for about 15 minutes, then xp media center replaced it and gone horror.
it's just the thing MS should never do, creating a linux.