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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268678-how-to-install-win7-on-multiple-partition-disk-on-imac-wo-reformatting/ 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 https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268678-how-to-install-win7-on-multiple-partition-disk-on-imac-wo-reformatting/#findComment-1751673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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