Re: Installing tiger from scratch with a second, partitioned drive in place

Odie Ferrous <odie_ferrous@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I reinstall all my recovery systems once or twice a month just to keep
> them clean and optimized. (Actually, I just keep a clone of a clean
> installation - which takes the best part of a day - on a spare drive and
> ghost it over.)
>
> I've had the Mac for a month now, and it needs a cleanout. Especially
> since the latest update to 10.4.3.
>
> However, with Windows, a new typically places some of the system files
> on a pre-existing (formatted) drive for some obscure reason, rather than
> keep everything discrete on the drive being reinstalled.
>
> For example, if I have drives C (operating system) and D (data.) I
> reformat and reinstall on C but some files will get placed on D so that
> if I format D at a later stage (which is guaranteed) the system would
> require a repair.
>
> Does this happen with the Mac? If I have a second drive in there
> already formatted and which contains data, will any operating system
> files get placed on it? I know the answer is really to remove the
> second drive, but if the first drive contains a second partition already
> with data on it, it's not exactly easy to remove that...

No, it'll be fine, whatever you tell the installer to install OS X on is
what it stays on. As a side note, is this just XP, or did earlier
versions do it too? it's not somethign I recall ever happening to me,
but then I've put a lot of effort into recycling those neurons.

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Ryan Callaghan
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