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    Can I do a fresh install of Leopard and not have to reinstall windows xp?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by passive101, Oct 8, 2007.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    I use bootcamp right now. When Leopard comes out I'd like to do a fresh install of it to avoid any issues and to conserve the most hd space as possible.

    If I did this, would I have to lose everything on my windows partition and have to reinstall everything there as well?
     
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    You shouldn't need to, if you do a clean install of Leopard, it would be a clean install on the OS X partition; OS X wouldn't require you to completely reformat the entire drive just to do a clean OS install, so you should be fine.

    -Zadillo
     
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