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Formatting partitioned drive

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xc runner

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Hey guys:

I have a question when formatting a second hard drive I installed in my optical bay. My current setup is a SSD that I installed when I felt my computer lacking in speed (2009 MBP) and I deferred on a caddy at the time. Recently, I purchased the caddy and added my original HDD back.

I would just wipe the drive but here is my dilemma, my older HDD has windows 7 which I occasionally use for work. Is there any way I can make my older HDD mac and SSD one while keeping my windows partition?

Thanks in advance!
 
simonsi

simonsi

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Unless you have changed anything your original HDD should still be bootable so when you need Windows simply boot from it and boot into Windows....
 
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xc runner

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Sorry, I forgot the mention that my older HDD was split and has a Mac side and Windows side. Is it possible to combine both the HDD and SSD Mac together while leaving my Windows partition in tack?
 
simonsi

simonsi

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xc runner said:
Sorry, I forgot the mention that my older HDD was split and has a Mac side and Windows side. Is it possible to combine both the HDD and SSD Mac together while leaving my Windows partition in tack?
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You mean into a single Fusion drive? I've never done that, I run my SSD and HDD as separate drives and manually control what is on each.
 
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