I just went to install leopard, but it said i have to delete all my existing data? I thought you could just upgrade without deleting everything? Is it because i have already partitioned my hard drive (i use boot camp)?
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I'm pretty sure that Leopard will upgrade previous versions automatically - did it find your old installation and give you some options?
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Your Boot Camp (Windows) partition should not interfere with your Mac OS X partition. You should have three installation options for Mac OS X: Upgrade, Archive & Install, and Erase & Install.
Mac OS X 10.5: Only installation option may be Erase and Install
About Mac OS X Installation Options -
Yes, Boot Camp has nothing to do with it, its a separate partition that OS X doesn't care about (sounds harsh
). As Xander said, there are three ways to install a new OS X version...and in your case, you'll want to Upgrade or Archive & Install.
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when it asks me to choose where i want to install it, it gives me 2 options, macintosh hd and windows hd. both have a yellow exclamation mark over them. I expected this over the windows hd, but i have no idea why its over the macintosh hd. When i select the mac drive, it tells me that everything from my hd will be deleted if i continue.
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in the same window that asks you what HD partition you want to install on, there should be a button that says "Options" towards the bottom left of the window. Click on that.
next, you should see some metal stairs, . . . go down them, then. . ., luck up, you should see some piping, follow that. . .Mr. Hammond I think we're back in business. -
i click on options and the only option i have is to delete my hd
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There should be the option to do an archive and install as well. FWIW, I would just do a clean install anyway. What I did was backup my data to an external drive and formatted. I ended up with an extra 40gigs! I had 40 gigs of crap! That is even after I reinstalled all the programs I wanted and put my data back.
installing leopard
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by yessir, Dec 25, 2007.