Reinstalling OSX While keeping Windows 7 intact. [Archive]

dandubois89

Oct 13, 2009, 09:36 PM

Is there a way to reinstall osx while keeping my windows partition intact? I realized I need a fresh install but not sure how to go about doing it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

DivineEvil

Oct 14, 2009, 12:09 AM

Just boot the OSX install DVD, Use Disk utility to erase the mac os x partition, while keeping the NTFS/Fat windows partition.

After that do the Install on the newly erased partition. And then install rEFIt in the newly MAC OS X. Restart and there ya go, you have a beautiful dualboot startup screen ;).

cjmillsnun

Oct 14, 2009, 12:31 AM

Just boot the OSX install DVD, Use Disk utility to erase the mac os x partition, while keeping the NTFS/Fat windows partition.

After that do the Install on the newly erased partition. And then install rEFIt in the newly MAC OS X. Restart and there ya go, you have a beautiful dualboot startup screen ;).

Do you need rEFIt?

DivineEvil

Oct 14, 2009, 05:05 AM

Do you need rEFIt?
I've always used rEFIt as a bootmanager, because Bootcamp doesn't support multiple partitions (my setup is with 2 HFS partitions and 1 NTFS). So if something happen to 1 of the OSes (Windows or MacOS) I can keep all my files on the 3rd partition and just erase/format the (corrupted) OS partition.

So if he can manage to boot into windows without installing rEFIt... then he doesn't need it. But if he can't... I bet rEFIt will do the job...