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Any way to have 2 Mac OS bootable partition together with Bootcamp

#1 User is offline   kuod 

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 07:20 PM

Please help!

Is there anyway to have 3 bootable partitions together on the same hard drive with 2 Mac OS and 1 Bootcamp Windows 7? I need a separate clean Mac OS partition (just basic OS) for me to test software / hardware installation without messing up with my main OS x partition. While I know I can always create a new partition when required and install from Recovery HD, it doesn't change the fact that the moment I do that, I won't be able to boot from bootcamp. I also understand I can use application like Parallel to house Windows 7 but is there anyway I can have 3 separate partitions (2 Mac OS and 1 Bootcamp Windows 7) and all co exist and functioning properly together? Thanks for all your help in advance.
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 08:09 PM

not fun to do. even worse to maintain.
easiest to just use an external to boot from.

what Mac are you wishing to do this with?
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Posted 25 June 2012 - 08:36 AM

View Postkuod, on 22 June 2012 - 07:20 PM, said:

Please help!

Is there anyway to have 3 bootable partitions together on the same hard drive with 2 Mac OS and 1 Bootcamp Windows 7? I need a separate clean Mac OS partition (just basic OS) for me to test software / hardware installation without messing up with my main OS x partition. While I know I can always create a new partition when required and install from Recovery HD, it doesn't change the fact that the moment I do that, I won't be able to boot from bootcamp. I also understand I can use application like Parallel to house Windows 7 but is there anyway I can have 3 separate partitions (2 Mac OS and 1 Bootcamp Windows 7) and all co exist and functioning properly together? Thanks for all your help in advance.


It is possible (if you have enough space), but I wouldn't recommend it.
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