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Hey there you awesome techies - I have often found answers here but now am going to post my own problem. Maybe someday I'll be able to help someone else, but right now I just know enough to be dangerous.
I am afraid I wiped out my OS X during the process of partitioning to run XP (and XP seems to be perfectly loaded and operational, thank you very much). When I hold the option key while pressing the Power-on button, the only drive icon that shows up on the gray screen is Windows. Plus, as I look on XP at "computer management," approximately 32 GB shows on "C" drive, and it says NTFS and Healthy. Good, that is what I told it to allocate to that partition. However, it shows that 201 GB is "unallocated." Of course, that is the remainder of my 250 GB hard drive where OSX should be; I would expect Windows to say it is Apple OSX, so the word "unallocated" makes me think OSX is not there. I will try to attach a picture, but I just gave you the info anyway. Do you think there is any point in pursuing ways to verify that OSX is gone, or should we just move on to what to do next?
I guess I am confused at this point what the next order of things should be. My end goal is the ever-popular choice to use Boot Camp to partition, and Fusion to run XP on my 250GB iMac running Leopard. (Fortunately, Time Machine backs up to my 500GB Newer Tech Mini Stack, so my data is safe for the most part.)
1) Do you think I can re-install Leopard on that "201 GB" portion from the install disks while leaving XP happily alone in its 32 GB home?
2) Or, do I uninstall windows, reformat the entire hard drive, and start over with installing Leopard from the install disks (and then getting software updates)?
3) After my own brain defrags (I have been messing with this for most of two days), I can reread the Boot Camp guide about installing Boot Camp drivers on the XP partition, and maybe that answers how I would delete or uninstall XP if I had to start from scratch. (Anyone remember which disk the boot camp drivers are on?)
4) Hopefully I can get support from VMware on Fusion. I'm looking at the booklet and thinking, "huh?" Any quick comments as to the order I should have (or should in the future) loaded Fusion would be appreciated: before Boot Camp? After Boot Camp and XP?
Of course, re-doing everything is not a guarantee it will go right since I don't know what I did wrong in the first place. I must have read 50 posts or articles about this subject before embarking on this journey, so I am flat out confused as to what went wrong.
Your comments and suggestions (and encouragement, too!) would be appreciated! These forums are a lifesaver.
Thanks!!!
I am afraid I wiped out my OS X during the process of partitioning to run XP (and XP seems to be perfectly loaded and operational, thank you very much). When I hold the option key while pressing the Power-on button, the only drive icon that shows up on the gray screen is Windows. Plus, as I look on XP at "computer management," approximately 32 GB shows on "C" drive, and it says NTFS and Healthy. Good, that is what I told it to allocate to that partition. However, it shows that 201 GB is "unallocated." Of course, that is the remainder of my 250 GB hard drive where OSX should be; I would expect Windows to say it is Apple OSX, so the word "unallocated" makes me think OSX is not there. I will try to attach a picture, but I just gave you the info anyway. Do you think there is any point in pursuing ways to verify that OSX is gone, or should we just move on to what to do next?
I guess I am confused at this point what the next order of things should be. My end goal is the ever-popular choice to use Boot Camp to partition, and Fusion to run XP on my 250GB iMac running Leopard. (Fortunately, Time Machine backs up to my 500GB Newer Tech Mini Stack, so my data is safe for the most part.)
1) Do you think I can re-install Leopard on that "201 GB" portion from the install disks while leaving XP happily alone in its 32 GB home?
2) Or, do I uninstall windows, reformat the entire hard drive, and start over with installing Leopard from the install disks (and then getting software updates)?
3) After my own brain defrags (I have been messing with this for most of two days), I can reread the Boot Camp guide about installing Boot Camp drivers on the XP partition, and maybe that answers how I would delete or uninstall XP if I had to start from scratch. (Anyone remember which disk the boot camp drivers are on?)
4) Hopefully I can get support from VMware on Fusion. I'm looking at the booklet and thinking, "huh?" Any quick comments as to the order I should have (or should in the future) loaded Fusion would be appreciated: before Boot Camp? After Boot Camp and XP?
Of course, re-doing everything is not a guarantee it will go right since I don't know what I did wrong in the first place. I must have read 50 posts or articles about this subject before embarking on this journey, so I am flat out confused as to what went wrong.
Your comments and suggestions (and encouragement, too!) would be appreciated! These forums are a lifesaver.
Thanks!!!