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BOOTCAMP: Is it possible to get this installed without reformat? Calling all botcamp users!

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 07:45 AM

I was wondering, is it possible to install this, on a hard drive that hasn't had it installed, without wiping the entire drive for a complete re-partition?

I'ts not too much trouble, since I have time machine backing everything up to a 1TB external... but I would rather NOT waste the time of having to migrate everything back to my drive after installing bootcamp.

Yeah, I'm new to bootcamp.
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 08:12 AM

Im slightly confused by what youre saying.

Do you mean that you want to install Boot Camp for the first time?
cos if so, the answer to your question is a most emphatic yes.

Just open the Boot Camp assistant (Apps>Utilities), and itll happily create you a Boot Camp FAT32 partition of almost any size you want. Then prompt you to burn off a drivers CD and reboot with the XP/Vista install DVD in the drive.
Apple made it dead easy to set up Boot Camp. Not quite as easy to get rid of/replace properly...

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 08:29 AM

MacOS 10.5 can re-partion drives on the fly without reformatting.
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 09:28 AM

Ok cool.

Thats what I wanted to know! I will run time machine one last time though before I do anything... just in case :D
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 10:47 AM

View PostFrigidman, on October 9th 2008, 04:28 PM, said:

Ok cool.

Thats what I wanted to know! I will run time machine one last time though before I do anything... just in case :D



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Posted 09 October 2008 - 11:43 AM

But depending on how old the drive is and how much stuff you've put on it and deleted over the year, you may need to defragment your hard drive first, because Boot camp will be looking to make a nice, clean single empty partition for your install. You'll get an error trying to make it if that's the case. In my case I had 85GB of space available trying to make a 40GB partition, but no luck until an overnight defrag.
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 01:35 PM

LOL, how do you even defrag on OSX... I thought it was built in to be managed automatically by the core.
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 04:21 PM

View PostFrigidman, on October 10th 2008, 06:35 AM, said:

LOL, how do you even defrag on OSX...

With something like iDefrag or TechTool.

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I thought it was built in to be managed automatically by the core.

For files more or less, for free space no.
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Posted 09 October 2008 - 04:37 PM

I may not need to defrag if I can find a new HDD to replace with. Which kind of goes against the whole topic of "avoiding reformat" BUHLAWL! ... but I figure if I am going to be wasting space for windows, I may as well upgrade the HDD to accomodate.

See other thread.
http://www.insidemac.......c=34987&hl=
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