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Hard Drive Swap: Instaling OS X
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<blockquote data-quote="kale" data-source="post: 480262" data-attributes="member: 37709"><p>Hello,</p><p>I am about to swap my hard drive out, as the factory one seems to be going south fast. The problem is this: The drive I want to put in is partitioned (with data on it), but does not yet have the os on it. </p><p></p><p>First of all, I already tried installing the os on the external drive, the installer would not let me(from what i've read, I'm assuming this is because I have a hardware specific version, not the full retail version). Is there any way around this?</p><p></p><p>Also, if I do install the OS on a partitioned hard drive, will it erase both partitions in order to do the installation, or will my backed up data be safe on the other partition?</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Kale</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kale, post: 480262, member: 37709"] Hello, I am about to swap my hard drive out, as the factory one seems to be going south fast. The problem is this: The drive I want to put in is partitioned (with data on it), but does not yet have the os on it. First of all, I already tried installing the os on the external drive, the installer would not let me(from what i've read, I'm assuming this is because I have a hardware specific version, not the full retail version). Is there any way around this? Also, if I do install the OS on a partitioned hard drive, will it erase both partitions in order to do the installation, or will my backed up data be safe on the other partition? Thanks, Kale [/QUOTE]
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