HEEELP!

[$m@Rt@$$]

I had to use windows for a couple of days so I installed a windows partition via boot camp. This morning I was done with the OS from hell and removed the partition with the disk utility. I started up the Mac this evening once more en now it automatically boots into the windows partition (that I had thought I had erased, reformatted and rejoined to the main OSX partition) into windows recovery mode. And after about 30 seconds it just shuts down.

I tried boot into safe mode to no avail.

Anyone knows what's going on?

 

[D3athD00r]

It looks like you formatted the wrong partition. You might as well format everything and start afresh.

 

[GreGorGy]

Hold down option as you turn it on - that should bring a list of available startup environments. Select your OS X install.

 

[Grant]

your 1st mistake was using disk utility to remove the windows partition, you should have used boot camp to remove the windows partition.
so to me, it sounds like a partition table issue, i had something similar happen to me where i wrecked the partition table layout, look here:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/613274-Partition-crisis.

 

[longboy]

Sounds like you formated the rong partition. Re-Install everything.

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

From what I figured is that I did not format the wrong partition, but as grantza said I should have used Boot Camp to remove the partition. So I ended up getting it to boot in to recovery mode and using the disk utility to force it to boot into the correct partition.

I almost shat my pants because I haven't ran a Time Machine for WEEKS and would have lost a lot of stuff!