Bootcamp question.

[Feek]

I have multiple hard drives in my Mac Pro, one of which (not the startup drive) is partitioned for Bootcamp.

If I completely erase my startup hard drive and reinstall OS X on it, will that affect my Bootcamp at all? I don't know if the bootcamp assistant does anything clever regarding adding a bootstrap to the main OS X partition.

I don't boot into the bootcamp partition very often, but I don't want to have to rebuild it.

Thanks.

 

[OllyM]

I'm sure I reformatted my Macbook's OS X partition and it kept my XP bootcamp partition intact and working fine - but if it goes wrong don't blame me

 

[Vonhelmet]

I suppose it depends on whether the EFI thingy depends on seeking bootable partitions or whether it requires a hardcoded bootloader config file.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Not sure if this affects partitioned drives, but normally you can do what you want to the OS X startup volume.

I.e. I had HDD2 dedicated to Vista, and nothing changed when I formatted Leopard in HDD1

The Bootcamp utility only allows the Mac to boot from the Windows CD, once the installer is running it's like a normal Windows install (i.e. the installer is what formats the drive/partition) so it's seperate from OS X.