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My OS X partition is too corrupted to boot from or repair with disk utility. I have a windows bootcamp partion that I can boot from and the files on the OS X partion can be read from windows and copied to an external hard disk (NTFS if it makes a difference) but it's very slow to copy large amounts of data (as in days for the application folder). I'd like to recover both my keychain and whatever liscense keys are used to tell applications that I own them.
My plan is to
copy everything important. Including what I put above
Reformat the OS X partition
Reinstall Snow Leopard
transfer Keychain information from back up disk
tranfer liscense information files if they exist
reinstall Applications
I'm not sure where the liscense information is stored or if the Keychains file and folder will actually work like this and if I'll have access.
I can try and copy important applications directly but windows doesn't recognize them as applications so I'm not sure if I'll be missing important information when I try and transfer them back.
Is this a very bad idea and should I just have a professional try and fix this?
Thanks
David

See setting up a new Mac from an old one or its backups (or use the link in User Tips at the top of this forum)--> http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/Setup.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3231
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27921.html
Hope this solves your problem.
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