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Apple KB Article: Boot Camp doesn't work with multiple partitions

by Scott McNulty (Apr 13th, 2006)

The first thing I do when I get a new Mac (or a new PC for that matter) is wipe out the hard drive, make two partitions, and do a fresh install on one of the partitions. I then store all my data on the other partition, just in case I ever need to reinstall the OS (is this a fool proof way to back up ...

Intel Macs can boot from USB drives

by David Chartier (Feb 8th, 2006)

Last week Dan posted about the new complications of Intel OS X drives not being bootable on PowerPC Macs, and vice-versa. The report came from Jon 'Wolf' Rentzsch, who recently updated the originating post with some specifics about booting and partition schemes, with one fairly positive detail: ...