bobmanuk Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 hi all, just a quick question for you all who have done this many times i have a compaq 110c-1110sa (basically a hp mini 1000) and i have 2 partitions on it, one XP one windows 7, I want to be able to install os x, im not entirely bothered about loosing windows 7, but i REALLY dont want to loose windows XP. so my question is, if i install os x on here, does disk util allow me to choose which partition i want to blitz or does it force you to blitz the entire drive? any help is appreciated. thanks Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 OS X does let you choose to which partition to install; however, OS X 10.6 will only install directly to a GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk, and your disk is almost certainly a Master Boot Record (MBR) disk. This problem definitely does not exist with 10.5 distributions (iPC, Kalyway, etc.), but I'm not sure about 10.6 distributions (Hazard, etc.). I've heard there's a modified 10.6 installer that works around this problem. Two other options are to install to another disk and then copy that installation back to your main disk, or to use a hybrid MBR configuration. The latter is very popular, but as I describe on the page to which I just linked, it's risky. If you need more details, you'll need to post more information, such as what version of OS X you want to install, how you plan to install it, and what additional resources you have (spare hard disks or big USB flash drives, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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