Need to wipe drive to partition for bootcamp?

[MAW]

Will be updating to (or archive and installing) to leopard when it arrives and will be installing windows xp soon thereafter. My question is will I need to reformat my HD in order to create a partition or does this wording from the apple site mean that I won't have to reformat? thanks in advance guys!!






p.s. first post on my brand new imac!!!! yay.

 

[JNB]

Boot Camp Assistant manages the repartitioning without the need for reformatting. No worries.

 

[gr8tfly]

It should work the same as the beta has. It will create a Windows partition on-the-fly, without affecting the OS-X partition. You can remove it also, without affecting the OS-X partition.

 

[MAW]

thanks guys!!

 

[sellitman]

I bough my iMac in Feb. and purchased XP too. Then I got chicken and never installed it. Now I like OSX so much my XP disc sits in a drawer never used.

 

[MAW]

I bough my iMac in Feb. and purchased XP too. Then I got chicken and never installed it. Now I like OSX so much my XP disc sits in a drawer never used.

yeah. i like osx too. but i also like half life 2, so...

 

[Eidorian]

It's the goodness of a live partition editor.

I still suggest making a backup of your data though.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

From what I understand, the only gotcha with Bootcamp is that you can't have more than 1 partition when you set it up and let it do it's partitioning... someone correct me if I'm wrong. Actually, I really hope I am but in my playing with the beta that was the case......