starbug81 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Hi everybody, I have imac (mid 2011) with Lion installed on it with two partitions: 1. 300GB - OS X part 2. 700GB - Files part (in all 4 - with hidden EFI and lion recovery partition) Now, I would like to install Win 7 just for gaming purposes (hey, can't work all the time ). The main question is - is it possible to install win 7 without reformatting my drive? Boot Camp is out of the game - since it asks for disk to be just one partition. Now here's what I tought (I have no real experience in messing with boot loaders so please feel free to correct me if I wrote something dumb). I installed rEFIt on a USB stick, and I added 100GB FAT32 partition at the end of the drive (internal imac disk). Would it be possible just to insert win7 disk at a startup and install it on that partition? Would that render my computer unbootable, or mess up OS X? Thanks for any help in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 4 primary partitions max.. then rest are logical but to create a logical it has to be 3 primary. then 4th is the logical with rest of logical partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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