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I was Bootcamping my family's shiny new iMac in order to play Assassin's Creed (which I've been dying to play forever). I got it to work wonderfully, but then I later ran the Mac's Disk Utility, which gave me a critical error.
Nothing worked to fix it, and eventually it progressed to the point where the iMac would shut down while booting up.
In the end, I had to completely wipe the hard drive and reformat it. I'm really, really hoping my sister didn't leave any files that she didn't back up, because otherwise, she's going to kill me.
The good news is that it's a new iMac (which is also bad news, though--I managed to break it that quickly? D:), so there weren't many files on it, although my dad will probably yell at me for messing around with the computer and making him have to reinstall Microsoft Office.
I'm also sad--yes yes, this makes me sound terrible because it was my desire to play HD computer games that led to this mess in the first place--that I won't get to play Assassin's Creed. (I'm not trying the Bootcamp thing ever, EVER again.) From the first two hours or so of the game, I loved it. Running around the rooftops of 12th-century Damascus was so much fun. T_T
(Maybe I should give in and buy a PS3 or XBox 360 after all? *shot*)
Nothing worked to fix it, and eventually it progressed to the point where the iMac would shut down while booting up.
In the end, I had to completely wipe the hard drive and reformat it. I'm really, really hoping my sister didn't leave any files that she didn't back up, because otherwise, she's going to kill me.
The good news is that it's a new iMac (which is also bad news, though--I managed to break it that quickly? D:), so there weren't many files on it, although my dad will probably yell at me for messing around with the computer and making him have to reinstall Microsoft Office.
I'm also sad--yes yes, this makes me sound terrible because it was my desire to play HD computer games that led to this mess in the first place--that I won't get to play Assassin's Creed. (I'm not trying the Bootcamp thing ever, EVER again.) From the first two hours or so of the game, I loved it. Running around the rooftops of 12th-century Damascus was so much fun. T_T
(Maybe I should give in and buy a PS3 or XBox 360 after all? *shot*)
