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    Reinstalling Leopard w/o wrecking Boot Camp install?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by saturnotaku, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    After updating Leopard to 10.5.2 and seeing it wreck Time Machine in the process, I want to roll back to 10.5.1. Unfortunately, I had erased my Time Machine volume in hopes that reformatting the drive would fix the problems 10.5.2 was having with TM.

    What I'd like to know is if I can do a clean Leopard install without wrecking the Boot Camp partition I have established. The copy of XP Home I have running is configured exactly the way I want, and it would be a big hassle to have to reinstall Windows because I had to nuke my Leopard partition.
     
    saturnotaku, Mar 8, 2008
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  2. diggy

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    Hmmm...interesting question, but I would think that it would. Basically if you did an erase and install, or archive and install, I think you wouldnt be able to see the BC partition after install is complete.

    What kind of problems are you having with TM?
     
    diggy, Mar 8, 2008
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    TM is basically refusing to do any backups at all. After spending a solid 10-15 minutes "preparing" for the backup, it gets about 5-15 MB into the process before coughing up an error about some file(s) not able to be copied to the backup volume.

    Google searching shows a lot of people having assorted issues with TM and 10.5.2. It worked perfectly fine on my system on both 10.5 and 10.5.1. It's not a huge, huge deal as 10.5.2 seems to work OK otherwise. One thing I really like about 10.5.2 is that the system clock doesn't get thrown off by 6 hours when I switch between OS X and Windows. I may just wait until 10.5.3 since I've only used TM once in the months I've owned Leopard (had it since launch). If the next Leopard update doesn't fix it and/or Apple doesn't release a hotfix, I may just bite the bullet and nuke everything.
     
    saturnotaku, Mar 8, 2008
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    Yeah, good choice, I would wait as well.
     
    Stunner, Mar 9, 2008
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