[Calenulma]

Hi!

I'm trying to clean my MacOS and installing fresh new but, of course, I need some backups and my external HD died.
I do have some other machines at home but the hard drives don't pass the 40GB and can't store everything.

That got me thinking of a solution and came up with the Bootcamp drive.

My question is:
After re-installing MacOS X and cleaning the disk (the Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) will it still recognize the MS-DOS Bootcamp partition or will the system loose that particular info about it and become a ghost?


Thanks!

[TETENAL]

If you want to reinstall simply make an archive & install.

[Calenulma]

Nice tip. It sounds REALLY good but once I did it, my previous user stopped recognizing my password...

[Cold Warrior]

If you wipe and install only on the OS X partition, your Windows partition will be left alone. Keep in mind that if this partition is formatted for FAT32, its maximum single file size is 2GB no matter how much free space it has.

Also your description of Archive & Install doesn't sound correct. Previous users are archived; there is no way to log in as a previous user following an archive install so there is no password needed. You have the option to preserve users and network settings, which is very helpful.

[Calenulma]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

You have the option to preserve users and network settings, which is very helpful.

Witch I used and that's when it installed Leopard and, once it was done, after restarting, the login window poped up and asked me for the previous user password... and it didn't work.

(I'm on another machine now, by the way)

[TETENAL]

That shouldn't happen. Never has for me anyway.

[Calenulma]

So I thought.
Solution: copy the files manually.

Thanks, guys!
It's just that there were so many years using MS's OS that I couldn't imagine the solution was so simple. Great system!