I have a mac mini with 2 drives in it. One has just macOS period. I don't want to touch that one. The other has another mac OS and a partition with bootcamp running windows8.1. I need to convert the macOS partition on the second disk to an NTFS partition for windows data. But it sounds like when I lose the macOS partition, I will also lose the ability to boot the windows partition. I did create the bootcamp partition from the macOS on the second drive--I'm realizing it might have been easier if I'd created it from the other drive.....
From what I understand, I could wipe the second drive, reinstall bootcamp to it, and still not be able to create a new partition on the disk, without fixing the partition table afterwards.....
So if I'm going to have to fix the partition table anyway, maybe I can just wipe the macOS partition from within windows, and then go back and fix the mbr? It's not a huge amount of work to reinstall my windows apps, but I'd rather not do it, espcecially if it's not even necessary. But maybe there are other issues?
So my questions are: is this likely to be possible to do this, and if so, what is the process for fixing the mbr. I don't mind using the command line, but I'm not an expert. I've done some mbr fixing in the past, but it's been a while.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
-eric
From what I understand, I could wipe the second drive, reinstall bootcamp to it, and still not be able to create a new partition on the disk, without fixing the partition table afterwards.....
So if I'm going to have to fix the partition table anyway, maybe I can just wipe the macOS partition from within windows, and then go back and fix the mbr? It's not a huge amount of work to reinstall my windows apps, but I'd rather not do it, espcecially if it's not even necessary. But maybe there are other issues?
So my questions are: is this likely to be possible to do this, and if so, what is the process for fixing the mbr. I don't mind using the command line, but I'm not an expert. I've done some mbr fixing in the past, but it's been a while.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
-eric
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