Possible to reinstall OS X without losing other partitions?

[spaceboots06]

Hi,

I'm just curious as to whether I would lose my Boot Camp partition or not when reinstalling OS X.

Thanks!

Oh, also; Do you guys have any pointers for what to back up on an external hard drive? Safari Bookmarks and stuff like that? I always forget to back up certain things...

 

[ian.maffett]

It depends on whether OS X has to initialize the disk or not but you should have a pretty good chance.

 

[iBookG4user]

You shouldn't, you'll be able to install it back on the Mac OS X partition that you have on the hard drive.

 

[techfreak85]

i dont believe so... just dont reformat the entire drive. u should be able to select the partition to install to when installing.

 

[spaceboots06]

Fantastic, I'll give it a shot now.