Reinstalling Leopard without removing or changing windows partition

I am giving my mom my iMac and I would like to remove all my files and applications, I think the best way to do this is to reinstall Leopard but I need to keep the windows partition intact. The problem is that I no longer have the Windows install disc (I do have the serial number though).
How do I reinstall Leopard?

Ok, thanks Niel. I also found an answer here http://www.brighthub.com/computing/mac-platform/articles/48174.aspx except I held option instead of c

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I am new to mac, and this may be a silly question. I want to reinstall leopard, but I am afraid that in this case my windows partition would be erased. If I reinstall leopard choosing "archive and install", will my windows partition be damaged?

Just one more question, is there any option to copy my existing applications and data to the "previous system" folder WITHOUT keeping my network preferences?
No. The options you see are the only ones available.
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Use guide below to convert it to 'basic' disk, or install windows on another drive. The supported way is to delete all partitions and convert it to a basic disk.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755238.aspx
However, your windows 8.1 must be on another drive?, as windows cannot boot from a dynamic disk.
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Before I install snow leopard, I tried to move tiger into the external harddrive. My mac says it can't do because it is the OS X. So I installed snow leopard without removing tiger. After that, my computer often freezes. How can I remove tiger?

Before I install snow leopard, I tried to move tiger into the external harddrive. My mac says it can't do because it is the OS X. So I installed snow leopard without removing tiger. After that, my computer often freezes. How can I remove tiger? Or How can I prevent my mac from freezing?

McHagihara wrote:
Before I install snow leopard, I tried to move tiger into the external harddrive. My mac says it can't do because it is the OS X. So I installed snow leopard without removing tiger. After that, my computer often freezes. How can I remove tiger? Or How can I prevent my mac from freezing?
When you installed Snow Leopard, Tiger was replaced, leaving your programs and files intact.
What is causing your freezing problem is unknown, you can take Kappy's advice and remove everything, but you lose your files and free iLife programs that came with Tiger/new machine.
The 10.6.3 disk you "upgraded" with has the full 10.6.3 on it, but no free iLife suit, so a erase and install will remove what you already have installed.
You can try to locate your problem without the erase and install method by running through this list of fixes.
Step by Step to fix your Mac
But before you do anything, backup your personal data off the machine to a extenal drive and disconnect.
Most commonly used backup methods
Because if you have to follow Kappy's advice and wipe and install 10.6 fresh, it will cure your problem in nearly 99% of cases, but you have to rebuild everything. All programs and files.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
If this is all too much for you, then STOP and call a local PC/Mac service or competant friend to assist you.
Yuo might need to install more RAM into the machine to make 10.6 run better as well.

How can FS03 be made Display only without removing Create/Change Activities

ECC 6.0 Release 700
Our internal auditors have asked to limit access to change the Chart of Accounts. Currently our Functional team has access to do this via transactions FS00, FSS0, FSP0, etc. which needs to be removed.
The issue is that if we assign display transaction FS03 to the functional team's role, the Change and Create buttons are still enabled due to the corresponding activities in the Authorization object F_SKA1_BUK, as it seems FS00 and FS03 are essentially the same. The same holds true for FSS3 and FSP3.
Unfortunately, the functional team requires the create and change activity in F_SKA1_BUK for other transactions, so if we strip the activities for the purposes of FS03, they will lose functionality elsewhere.
The standard reports S_ALR_87012327 and S_ALR_87012328 were deemed as insufficient replacements for the information in FS00.
Is there any way to limit the functionality of FS03 to Display only without taking away the create and change activities?

While researching F_SKA1_KTP, I found that without the change or create activities in both F_SKA1_KTP and F_SKA1_BUK, the buttons gray out. The functional team is currently researching if they need change/create in F_SKA1_KTP, as I sent them a list of transactions they have for which it is required.
I tried to remove S_TCODE FS00, but when I ran FS03 it gave me a "not authorized for FS00" message and did not display the screens. I removed the dependency via SE97, but then FS03 essentially became FS00 and I was back at square one.
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1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
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If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions. If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.

After HD change, Windows partition no longer boots up

Recently, I replaced my internal Hard drive on an early 2008 Macbook with a Solid State Drive. The original Hard drive had both an OS X partition and boot camp partition. I am currently using this drive as a external storage device (I did not delete anything, both partitions are still there with their respective operating systems) via a USB hard drive enclosure. Occasionally, I need to boot into Windows, but when I try to boot off the external drive, I get a black screen with a small blinking white line, and eventually, the error message that there is no bootable media. Please help!

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Could someone please help me reinstall leopard without losing stuff

I have a macbook and when I got leopard I stuck in the drive and did a standard upgrade.
I now feel the need to do a clean install, it isnt slow or anything I just feel the need to start over.
Thing is I have no way of knowing how, I dont have much software installed, I have office which I have the disc for, everything else I can download again........the only thing I dont know about is ilife 07 which came bundled with my macbook.
Can I do the following?
1. Drag and drop my itunes/iphoto/imovie files to cd/dvds
2. Back up any folders/word docs etc I need to keep.
3. Put in my leopard disc again and go for erase and install
4. Put in my previous bundled macbook disc and select 'install bundled software'
5. Load my backedup files back into their respective programmes.
?????????

Can anyone solve this for me conclusively? will ilife inlcuding iphoto etc be in the 'install bundled software' option on my tiger disc (my macbook came pre installed with tiger including ilife etc) and will I be able to install it in leopard after an erase and install?
If anyone has any reasons why not to do this i.e. 'it might brick your macbook' or something less dramatic. please share...thanks
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Thanks so much for your help. I have two hard drives, one with my tiger system on it which I use 99% of the time. The other drive have partitioned in two, one for data and the other (just a small partition) has my Leopard system on it. Just to make sure my leopard system wasn't somehow interfering and causing me trouble I changed all its permissions to no access. It didn't make any difference in how FCE performed, so I went back to change everything back to read and write access, but as soon as I close the info window and reopen it the permissions are all back to no access. I even restarted and it's volume didn't even mount. Is ther some way to set the permissions back. Could the problem be that I locked the volume which has leopard on it while I was booted in Tiger? Of course now I can't boot up in Leopard even if I wanted to. Very confused.

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put in the install disc, and when you're at the screen where you select which disc to install to, click options, and it gives you the option to erase partition and reinstall leopard without needing to upgrade. did i word that confusing? it says that you need v 10.4 *or higher to do the upgrade, BUT if you don't click options and choose the reformat (last option) then it will upgrade and keep your old system folder on the drive. any questions, i'll be checking back at this post.

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Hi,
I have a macbook air (Late 2008) that came with Leopard. Recently it had some problem and now doesn't boot properly. I need to reinstall Leopard but I really don't know how to do it.
I don't own any other Mac. Also I have lost the original Leopard DVDs. I've been reading about different ways to reinstall Leopard without DVD but I'm not still sure what to do.
What's the best (easiest / cheapest) way to reinstal OS X? All ideas will be appretiated.
Thanks in advance,
Terry.

Terrycp wrote:
Hi,
I have a macbook air (Late 2008) that came with Leopard. Recently it had some problem and now doesn't boot properly. I need to reinstall Leopard but I really don't know how to do it.
I don't own any other Mac. Also I have lost the original Leopard DVDs. I've been reading about different ways to reinstall Leopard without DVD but I'm not still sure what to do.
What's the best (easiest / cheapest) way to reinstal OS X? All ideas will be appretiated.
Thanks in advance,
Terry.
Call Apple at 1-800-MYAPPLE they will sell them to you. You can also check eBay.

Do I really need to reinstall Windows partition when upgrading to Leopard?

I've installed Leopard and installed the Leopard drivers in Windows. Now Startup Disk control panel does not show the Windows boot option. I can use it by holding down the Option key at boot time or by running BootChamp. Windows works fine.
I ran the Boot Camp Assistant and it says "This disk appears to have been partitioned by another utility, It must be erased before installing Windows" I used BCA to set the drive up (under beta of course.)
Any clue how to get back the startup disk option without reinstalling Windows? Should I really care about it?

All I did was do an archive/install of Leopard which went very smoothly. I then booted into my existing boot camp partition which was the boot camp beta/Vista Ultimate, stuck in my Leopard DVD and allowed it to upgrade the drivers. Everything went as smooth as silk, no problems. I can pick the windows partition as the startup disk or my Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the startup drive.
Of course I had everything backed up first just in case, but it went without a hitch. So I know it is possible to accomplish without having to reinstall windows.

Reformat/Reinstall Leopard 10.5 after a Failed WIndows Partition

When trying to create a windows partition on my MacBook everything was running successfully and the screen said that it had finished the installation and needed to restart. So i did, but after restarting the Windows disc wanted me to install at the same start up screen as before.
I no longer wish to have this windows partition on my computer and i am at my real issue now. I want to start up in Leopard but the only way for me to get into the Mac OS was to insert my restore disc. I can get to the utilities menu and get to the start up disc option. My options are Windows on "untitled", the Mac OS disc, and Network. But when i go to reinstall the Mac OS there is no drive for me to install on to.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much. I saw a lot of info about CUPS, gutenprint, and samba out there, but not much context to it.
For folks just reading this from google:
The easiest way to add a Windows printer, in most cases, is to check Gutenprint, which is included with OS X, to see if it supports your printer. (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3)
If not, try searching google for "<your printer model> cups driver".
Bring up the add printer dialog under system preferences and right click on a blank space on the toolbar. Choose customize toolbar. Drag the "Advanced" icon onto the toolbar. Then, click it.
Under type, select Windows. Go down to "Print Using" and choose "Select a driver to use...". Pick your driver in the list. "SMB://" should have autofilled in the URL form. From this, you'll add the name of the PC to which the printer is attached. Say you've set its network name as Bob, for example. You'll put "smb://bob", and then you'll add the shared name of the printer. In my case, it's an Epson CX7400, and I've shared it as EpsonCX7400. Keep in mind, Mac OS doesn't like names longer than 12 characters or shares with special characters like $ and @ and things like that. (If you're unsure, you could always just share it from your Windows PC as printer1 or something.) Were that the case, your URL field would read "smb://bob/printer1". If you named it something like mine, "smb://bob/epsoncx7400". If your printer requires a username and password to print, you'll put "smb://<username>:<password>@bob/printer1", substituting your username and password in the <username> and <password> spots respectively.
Afterward, if you've done all that properly, it should work. Hopefully, anyway. It did for me. Well, it showed up anyway. I've not actually tried to print from it, yet.
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Changing the partition format without reinstall the Mac OS X

Hi,
Does anyone know how to change the file system format of the partition without needed to reinstall the OS X ?
E.g. "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" > "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)"
this link will give an idea of list of file system format available http://images.macworld.com/images/legacy/2006/10/images/content/pickformat.jpg
The main reason I need this is because of I wish to avoid reinstallation as it take time to install and update to latest patch...
I have MacBook with 3 partitions with formated to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" on all 3 partitions. 1st and 2nd partition installed Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7, and created an image (by using carbon copy cloner) for each partition and saved it into 3rd partition as backup.
I tried to below but it doesn't help:
1. Boot into 10.7.
2. Erase the 1st partition 10.6, reformat it to "Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)".
3. Restore 10.6 image that created previously.
4. After restore completed, the 1st partition file system format back to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
Is there's anyway to change the partition file system format without needed reinstall Mac OS X ?

Or is there any backup tool that it will only back file and folder level but not file system format ??
That what all backup tools do.
If so, then I can create a backup image of the existing entire partition file and folder only, then reformat the partition to case-sensitive, then restore back the file and folder...
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