Lion's emergency partition along with a Windows partition
I have an iMac 27 SSD with 2 partitions : one with my running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and a second one with Boot Camp Windows 7.
If I upgrade my Snow Leopard partition to Lion, will an emergency partition still be created by the Lion installer on my SSD ?
The reason I ask is that I am told that a Windows partition will only be bootable IF there are ONLY two partitions on the disc.
So, what if Lion comes and creates a third partition ?
Two sub-questions, then :
- Is it possible to PREVENT Lion from creating this emergency partition ?
- Is it possible to make the Lion Installer create this emergency partition on another disc ?
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