Want to upgrade from Lion (Mac OS X 10,7) to Maverick (Mac OS X 10.9) with Boot Camp already installed on my hard drive?

Just get this iMac 27" Core i5 2,7GHz with a splitted Hard Drive.
Work with Lion and Window 7 and wish to rise up my hard drive section for
Mac to 10,9.5 without touching the Windows partition? Is it possible ?
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Yes. Back up both systems and upgrade Mac OS X normally; you probably won't need to use the backup immediately.
Note that unless you downloaded the full Mavericks installer before Yosemite came out, you won't be able to get it.
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Want to upgrade from Lion (Mac OS X 10,7) to Maverick (Mac OS X 10.9) with Boot Camp already installed on my hard drive?

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