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s4mb4
October 30th, 2009, 10:08 AM
I have Snow Leopard installed on one partition and i let OSX create a Boot Camp partition of 80GB. I followed the process and installed Windows 7 x64. I am now selling the iMac and the buyer wants the Windows load. Since i need to reinstall OSX to factory defaults before i ship, will that cause a problem?
can i re-install Snow Leopard and still dual boot with the option key?
Will the little diamond icon sill work inside of Windows when i reinstall OSX?

I am trying to avoid restaging the WHOLE machine.

icemanjc
October 30th, 2009, 01:34 PM
I have Snow Leopard installed on one partition and i let OSX create a Boot Camp partition of 80GB. I followed the process and installed Windows 7 x64. I am now selling the iMac and the buyer wants the Windows load. Since i need to reinstall OSX to factory defaults before i ship, will that cause a problem?
can i re-install Snow Leopard and still dual boot with the option key?
Will the little diamond icon sill work inside of Windows when i reinstall OSX?

I am trying to avoid restaging the WHOLE machine.

Bootcamp and Mac OS X are on two different partitions. If you just erase the one partition with Mac OS X you will be fine and you still will be able to boot into the Windows partition easily.

However, if you erase the whole hard drive or repartition it, you will have problems.