pcmxa Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 All, I have OSX 10.5.5 on my system with everything working. I installed it to a separate hard drive from my Vista drive. Currently my boot sequence is windows bootmgr->choose either Vista or Leopard, if I choose leopaerd, it goes to the darwin boot loader and loads OSX. This works but I want to now use the current OSX drive as a scratch disk for both windows and osx by using an hfs reader in vista. The problem is that if I format the free space on the current OSX drive to mac OS extended it breaks the windows boot manager, giving me a chain 0 error. What I would like to do is to uninstall OSX (without removing it so I have access to all the kexts, programs, files etc I currently have on it), and reinstall it on the same drive as vista. Is there a way to remove the darwin bootlader completely without formating the current OSX drive so that when I do the new installation there is no issue of trying to boot to the old one? Thanks Edit: Wow this was so simple it hurt my brain. Just did a reinstall and the new install immediately found my old installation and let me import everything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/162065-re-installing-osx-1055/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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