Situation:Today, i was using mac os x this morning, it worked fine. then when i went home from work, start up the macbook pro, it took like 4-5 minutes to start the login, then take 30-45 secs, then the desktop starting to freeze!
Notes: I have Boot Camp on it.
Question: Can i reinstall mac os x without erasing the boot camp patition?
Thank you to reply!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), With Windows 7 32-bit
Yes, if you think it's necessary you can hold c and boot off the installer OS X disk for your 10.6 and simply reinstall OS X and bundled programs right over the previous ones without it touching your files or other programs.
However, you should take ANY opportunity to transfer your files off the computer (manually, not via TimeMachine) just in case there is a bigger issue afoot, like a failing hard drive.
You might also want to take a look at the free OnyX, run all the maintainence and cleaning aspects and reboot.
Covers a ton of bases in one place.
Reinstalling OSX is not like reinstalling windows. None of your applications or files are deleted or reformatted. Therefore unless you use disk utility to erase your windows partition specifically, the partition will remain. You could even go as far as to reboot while holding C with the install DVD in of course and select disk utility and erase your OSX parition while leaving the windows bootcamp partition intact and reinstall osx. SO the definitive answer is YES! You can reinstall OSX while leaving your partitions intact. And again if you did have to erase your OSX partition because of data corruption or because you wanted to start fresh you could do that and windows parition will be untouched. Your files, apps, and partitions will remain intact unless you specifically use disk utility and erase the partitions.
Thx, guys! I will try! Thx for the help once again!
how to reinstall mac os x without erase boot camp?
