Question on bootcamp if OSX needs to be recovered

My boot camp partition is on its own hard drive inside my Mac Pro.
If one day my main hard drive with OSX on it crashes and I need to purchase a new one and reinstall OSX, will I also need to start a new boot camp partition, and reinstall windows and its programs, or will I be able to use the existing one? Is there anything that specifically needs to be done in order for OSX to recognize it?

XP is different, and it would be a good opportunity (couple hrs left) to download W7 RC from Microsoft;
DO make an image of Windows with WinClone;
and there were bugs when doing the Leopard 10.5.0 over Tiger; and Boot Camp 2.0 - for some.
To say "IF" is to be open to... 85% are fine, 5% caput, 10% have minor issues.... with most any OS update or patch (and usually those w/o backup are hit hardest).
Option key of course should. Startup Disk in OS X might. Windows may tag any drive that was present; and, be looking for drive bay #n where it was before.
All anyone can do is prepare for the worst (do a test, trial and error are great teachers) and do a dry run; then hope for the best.

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Hey all,
I'm putting this as a question in the discussion forms for bootcamp as I'm not sure where else to put it, but I resolved an issue I was having and having spent all of yesterday and the day before reading through this community and some others looking for answers and mostly seeing "hope you have backups, time to format!" (which to me is not always the best answer), I thought I would put it here for search purposes (with all the key words I had to use) in case anyone else has a similar issue.
My scenario was this:
2011 27" iMac with Mountain Lion installed and Windows 7 installed on a boot camp partition.
1) Haven't been in windows in a while, wanted to play some windows only steam games. Load windows 7. All is well. Have fun. Time to reboot into osx.
2) Reboot using bootcamp toolbar icon.
3) Wander away from computer. Come back to find windows 7 has loaded again. "That's weird", I think. Reboot again, this time hold down option key to select boot device.
4) Discover the only options are the Bootcamp partition and the Recovery partition. OSX "Macintosh HD" partition has disappeared. Huh.
5) Load recovery partition and load disk utility.
6) Review disk utility to discover the Macintosh HD partition shows up in the list, but won't mount. Run verify and repair tools. Errors are as follows: Invalid node structure, invalid key length, invalid record count, etc etc. Running a repair fails - disk utility advises me to back up and erase the drive and that the partition is unrepairable. No offense disk utility, but I think I'll try a few more options first.
7) Purchase DiskWarrior on advice of multiple posters in other threads and general online consensus of it being capable of fixing these sorts of errors. Go through process of loading bootable dvd.
8) Diskwarrior cannot see the Macintosh HD partition. This is bad. Review more threads. Advice is that if diskwarrior can't fix it, hope you have backups and wipe the drive. Likely to be hardware failure. I'm skeptical of hardware failure, because windows is chugging along running fine if I boot into it, and I ran a scan of the windows partition and it came back clean. SMART status is also showing the drive is ok. However, running out of options and starting to lose hope.
9) Follow advice in this support topic: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417?viewlocale=de_de Both safe mode and disk utility aren't options (safe mode won't work without it seeing the partition) so sounds like fsck is the final option.
10) Start up in Single User Mode (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492). Run fsck per instructions. It reports back ok.
11) Realize fsck is checking the recovery partition, and not my damaged OSX partition. Realize I don't know anything about unix commands and have no idea how to tell fsck to check a different partition.
12) Learn that I need to find out what the drive id is for the damaged partition. Reboot, load up disk utility, select greyed out "macintosh HD" partition, click info. Write down the id: disk0s2 (likely to be the default for you as well if you have one drive in your imac and a default bootcamp install).
13) Go back into single user mode and type the following (without quotes): "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2"
14) (Forgot to copy down exactly what it said at this point, but gist of it was that the drive had errors and isnt repairable). Feel like ****, thinking this is unlikely to resolve itself nicely.
15) With nothing to lose, try to force fsck to rebuild the catalog - "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" I found this syntax on some forums and can't find the thread again. I have no idea what the -rc and -d do that -fy don't, but if someone can let me know, that'd be cool. Either way, this resulted in something actually happening. Tells me it is "rebuilding catalogue b-tree". Still, finishes with a bunch of errors about improperly linked files, more node errors, etc etc.
16) Retry "fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2". It seems to be doing stuff now, even though there are lots of errors. Continue to re-run fsck using this syntax. Probably ran it 10-15 times. Takes over an hour. Finally, minimal errors being reported.
17) Realize that perhaps I should try Diskwarrior again now, since I've managed to do soemthing to the partition with fsck.
18) Run Diskwarrior from bootable DVD. Success! It now sees the damaged partition. Reports that it has a bunch of damaged crtitical files, and needs to be repaired, but hey, at least it can see it.
19) Let Diskwarrior do its thing, and reboot.
20) Boot from repaired OSX partition. Rejoice. Immediately plug back in the timemachine drive you foolishly unplugged to take away over the holidays and neglected to plug back in before you had commenced work on stuff you didnt want to lose through formatting, which is why you are so desperate to recover files rather than wiping and restoring from time machine backups and avoiding this whole mess.
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Hope this helps!

What -rc & -d do.
From: The fsck_hfs manual page.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages /man8/fsck_hfs.8.html
-d      Display debugging information. This option may provide useful information when fsck_hfs cannot repair a damaged file system.
-r      Rebuild the catalog btree. This is synonymous with -Rc.
-R flags Rebuilds the requested btree. The following flags are supported:
                         a       Attribute btree
                         c       Catalog btree
                         e       Extents overflow btree
I had the same problem as you but unfortunately "fsck_hfs -rc -d /dev/disk0s2" is failing saying: "The volume   could not be verified completely." I believe it's supposed to be telling me the partition's name (normally "Macintosh HD") between 'volume' and 'could' because there's 3 spaces in between the words.
"fsck_hfs -fy /dev/disk0s2" is failing with the same error.
I tried "fsck_hfs -r -d /dev/disk0s2" since the c appears redundant with a lowercase R. and it again says it cannot be verified completely and adds "volume check failed with error 7". Which unfortunately is not documented on the fsck_hfs man page!
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1.What does it do?
2.If I partition my Mac will I lose my operating system
3.Can Windows 7 32 bit be installed?
4.I have a legit cd key for windows 8 but i don't have a CD so what should i do?
5.Can I backup all my data and restore it just the way it was ?
6.To backup and restore, will i have to format my hard disk to a different format and can i restore its original format.
7.When installing Windows 7 or 8 or while partitioning it for installing windows will the o/s in the mac partition be safe ?
8.Whats the difference between 32 bit and 62 bit?
9.Can I get a whole guide from the start till the end on using bootcanp? :'( Please
Thanks in advance

1. Boot Camp is an app that helps you install Windows on a second partition of the hard drive by taking advantage of the hybrid GPT/MBR partition table in all Macs. See > http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
2. Of course not. You will keep OS X, but only if you follow the steps carefully. Follow these steps to install Windows > http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
3. Of course, always that your Mac supports it > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5634
4. In that case, you will need to get Windows 8 in a ISO file and burn it to a DVD. However, the Mid 2007 iMac doesn't support Windows 8 in Boot Camp.
5. Of course. Use Time Machine to make a backup of your files in OS X > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427 To restore the backup, start up in OS X Recovery (hold Command and R keys while your iMac is starting up), select the option to restore a Time Machine backup and follow the steps.
6. You will need to format the external drive in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". See > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html Then, to restore the whole backup, it will erase your hard drive.
7. See the answer 2.
8. A 32-bit Windows version is designed for 32-bit processors, and a 64-bit Windows version is designed for 64-bit processor. Although your iMac has got a 64-bit Windows version, you can only install a 32-bit Windows version.
9. Have a look at my second answer

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Hi,
I am having few questions lately on different features of Mavericks. If needed, I can split into different topics, let me know
- Finder
The quick preview became extremely slow, it is now faster to open a picture directly in a program than clicking on the space to see it...
In the cover flow view, previews are not updated when files are moved or deleted. To get it refreshed, I must change the view so the cover flow is refreshed...
Do you know when Apple will decide to provide an update on that?
- Accounts management / sync with Google
I have been using OSX since Tiger, I used to own an Android phone, now an iPhone. I realized that I have a pretty chaotic "Google account" management on my devices, each of them having its own setup. My iPhone has one account for Mail/Cal/Notes using standard type, plus another one for Contacts using cardDAV. My Mac has kind of the same setup, I found 2 different accounts setup (for only one real Google account), and one or the other is set as default in some apps. And of course everything is in sync with iCloud. I think since Apple have been improving its sync management, some stuff is not necessary anymore, or things could be simplified, but today I have no idea what is doing what.
Can someone explain what could be a "good" setup from scratch, to be able to sync everything smoothly? My question can seem stupid, but I actually did try to delete my current accounts and re-set everything, and I actually got the data back on the mac, but when I tried to do some more tests, I realized contacts are not sync back between my local / iCloud / Google properly, and I don't see any easy way to understand the logic, and if things are only pulled but not pushed for example.
I made some research, but I only find old topics that are out of date.
Thanks a lot for your support:)

I've seen the Finder issue as well with slow preview of pictures. I've reported it to Apple so I'm hopefull that it will be fixed. Generally Apple doesn't give details on what may be fixed and when. But you're not alone in noticing that.
As far as account management, you can use many back-end services to keep contacts, etc. You can have Contacts (nee Address Book) set to sync contacts with iCloud and Google if you want. I just use iCloud. If you want to move your contacts from Google to iCloud, I think you could probably just drag the contacts from Google to iCloud from within Address Book. Same with calendar appointments if you want. You just need to ensure both accounts are configured on your Mac and then drag and drop them (If they're not deleted from Google when you drag them over, then you could delete them as a separate step).
I've been using iCloud since it came out and it's been great for me.

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